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As they crouch at the banks of the Tigris River, Mandaeans splash themselves with the water as they prepare to baptize themselves and their cookware in its current. During the ceremony the Mandaeans wear the white clothes they call Resta and leave their modern worldly clothes behind. Some 15,000 to 20,000 people of the minority Mandaean religious faith live in Iraq. |
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