sabaeanism

Updated: May 18, 2025

My opera, for which I myself wrote the libretto, for a poet would never have fully developed the subject, is the life of Mahomet, a figure in whom the magic of Sabaeanism combined with the Oriental poetry of the Hebrew Scriptures to result in one of the greatest human epics, the Arab dominion.

Honoré de Balzac - Gambara

The Chaldaean religion even here is far from being mere Sabaeanism the simple worship of the "host of heaven." The aether, the sun, the moon, and still more the five planetary gods, are something above and beyond those parts of nature.

George Rawlinson - The Seven Great Monarchies Of The Ancient Eastern World, Vol 1: Chaldaea : The History, Geography, And Antiquities Of Chaldaea, Assyria, Babylon, Media, Persia, Parthia, And Sassanian or New Persian Empire; With Maps and Illustrations.