The Late Summer season accentuates the Manichaean Religion of Light, along with earlier Summerian and Zarathustrian and later Sufi influences. Mani tended to categorize many things in groups of 5, and this Pentadization is a focus here. The descent of Innana to the underworld is a theme.  The region is the Tigris-Euprates watersheds, eastward over the Silk Road and  northwest thru Eastern Turkey, Central Italy. Texts: Poems of Rumi, Gathas of Zarathustra, Manichaean Hymns, Kephalaia, Cologne, Gospel of Thomas. Ziwaneh Light Sparks is a major theme. The Manichaeans were known for an obsession with food categorization and this season concentrates on that, reworking the outdated Chinese 5 Element color system for a more accurate botanical model.Being loving, good, doing no harm either to nature or man.  Ishtar between two lions. Taming the wild within. Discernment, separating good from bad. Gathering in scattered light sparks. Descent into shadow, taming darkness within. Dammuzi descent foreshadowing Primal Man's descent and dismemberment. There is a war within and without, light against darkness..
Rituals: The major influence of this season is the Manichaean, but their rituals have not been well preserved. The ceremonies of the season therefore rely upon Magian rites, of which the Manichaean school sourced, as well as some Sufi. The Parsees have preserved many of the older Zarathustrian Rites, and many are well documented by Drower and others. The relationship between Magian/Zoroastrian rites and Mandeans one is pronounced.

The symbolic script is Aramaic.
Symbolic Grain/Legume: Eikhorn, Emmer, Spelt, Rye, Triticale (Italy, Fertile Crescent)
Art: Manichaean silk paintings and manuscript illumination.
Historical Movements:

• Sumer, Inana Descent to Underworld, Tammuz Ishtar, writings, diaries; Babylon & Calendar, Murdok, Ishtar, Tiamat, Gilgamesh; Roman Calendar.
• Zarathustra, Magi; Zurvanites; Zoroastrians, Magians.
• Elxai, purity; Mani, Cologne Manuscript, Separation from Turbid; Iranian Manichaeanism, Wars.
• Silk Road Manichaeanism, Spark, Ziwaneh; Denewar Cult, Meditation; White Lotus Sect.
• Shiites, Crypto Manichees, Last Iman, Corbin texts; Rumi; Sufi Orders.

Problem/Avoidances: Zephyrstar: Destructive diet and lifestyle, enviromental pollution, degregation, desertification. Disregard for life.
 

Beginning Level Seal of Hands	Intermediate Level Seal of Mouth	Advanced Level Seal of Breast
No killing, avoidance of harm to life, perserving life forms. Creating a better world and cleaner envirmonet. Gardens, greenhouses.	Pure Diet, pure speech. Encouraging the expansion of life, farming, permaculture. Preserving food.	Breeeding plants and seeds, terraforming planets, building edens. Preparing healing foods and elixers. Kindness, compassion.

Below is a revised list of 100 historically verifiable spiritual exercises, practices, routines, or rituals from the Manichaean tradition, supplemented by related Sufi and Dervish practices, categorized by the Chinese five elements (Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal, Water) and subdivided into Body, Speech, and Mind. Each entry retains the original information, including historical verifiability and sources, and now includes a few lines explaining how to personally put the practice into action. The list prioritizes Manichaean practices from sources like Jason BeDuhn’s The Manichaean Body (2000), Coptic texts (PsalmBook, Kephalaia), Chinese Hymnscroll, and Turfan texts, supplemented by Sufi and Dervish practices from texts like alGhazali’s Ihya Ulum alDin and Rumi’s Mathnawi. Due to the limited number of distinct Manichaean practices, Sufi and Dervish exercises fill the gap to reach 100, ensuring historical grounding. The five elements framework is interpretive, and practices are assigned based on thematic resonance.