Mandaean light fast (23 Sarṭana) · Ṣauma

Culture of origin: Mandaean · Cultural

Holiday sources: Mandaeism

The 23rd of Sarṭana, the sixth Mandaean month, is a day of light fasting in Gelbert's Mandaean calendar table for 2005–06, which gives no reason for it. Mandaean light fasting is not a long fast without food or water; typically it means abstaining from meat on certain ominous (mbaṭṭal) days. Like every Mandaean date, it comes one Gregorian day earlier every four years.