Ezlat

{{Short description|Prototypical feminine figure in Mandaeism}}

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| name = ʿZlat

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| other_names = ʿZlat Rabtia

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| abode = World of Light

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| consort = Shishlam

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{{Mandaeism}}

In Mandaeism, ʿZlat ({{langx|myz|ࡏࡆࡋࡀࡕ|lit=she wove/she span}}), also Ezlat, Īzlat, or ʿZlat Rabtia ('ʿZlat the Great', {{IPA|mid|ʕezˈlɑt ˈrɑbti}}), is the wife or female consort of Shishlam, a figure representing the prototypical priest or prototypical Mandaean. Hence, Zlat symbolizes the prototypical Mandaean priestly wife as the archetype of the pure bride.{{cite book|last=Drower|first=Ethel Stephana|author-link=E. S. Drower|date=1960|title=The secret Adam, a study of Nasoraean gnosis|location=London UK|publisher=Clarendon Press|page=|no-pp=true|url=http://holybooks.lichtenbergpress.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/The-Secret-Adam-A-Study-of-Nasoraen-Gnosis.pdf|access-date=19 February 2014|archive-date=6 March 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140306132110/http://holybooks.lichtenbergpress.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/The-Secret-Adam-A-Study-of-Nasoraen-Gnosis.pdf|url-status=dead}} She is described in the Mandaean priestly text The Thousand and Twelve Questions as the "Wellspring of Light."{{cite book|last=Drower|first=Ethel S.|title=The Thousand and Twelve Questions: A Mandaean Text (Alf Trisar Šuialia)|location=Berlin|publisher=Akademie Verlag|year=1960|page=111}}

Zlat is also mentioned in Qulasta prayers 17, 105, 106, 171 (the Šal Šulta), and 173 (the Šumhata).{{Cite book|title=The Canonical Prayerbook of the Mandaeans|last=Drower|first=E. S.|publisher=E. J. Brill|year=1959|location=Leiden}}