Amamit

In Mandaean cosmology Amamit appears as one of the planetary powers in the entourage of Ruha who inhabit the World of Darkness. A Haran Gawaitha passage names a figure called "Mamit daughter of Qin" and assigns to her a portion in the narrative of the final age; the same textual complex links the Mandaic Libat (the planet Venus) with the name Amamit (sources: Haran Gawaitha / Gnostic Society Library; Mandaean summaries equating Libat and Amamit). Secondary scholarship has proposed that Mesopotamian theonyms such as Mamitu may be a possible antecedent to the Mandaean name, but this is presented as a tentative suggestion rather than a confirmed derivation.

The supplied Mandaean textual sources and summaries identify Amamit by name and by planetary epithet (Libat/Ishtar) but do not provide any sustained physical or iconographic description. Epithets and genealogical attributions (e.g., daughter of Qin) are attested in ritual-historical texts, yet no morphological or visual details are recorded in the cited materials.

Sources describe Amamit as one of the seven planetary powers associated with Ruha in the World of Darkness and explicitly identify her with the planet Venus (Libat/Ishtar), indicating a role as an astral/planetary agent within Mandaean negative cosmology (Source: Wikipedia: Amamit / Libat; Ruha article summary). A passage in Haran Gawaitha assigns to "Mamit daughter of Qin" an eschatological portion in the latter end of the age and the final end of the world, linking Amamit to apocalyptic/decadent functions (Source: Haran Gawaitha / Gnostic Society Library). The provided materials do not specify concrete mechanisms, symptomatic effects on humans, possession rites, or detailed acts attributed to Amamit.