Andiruna

[2] The term andiruna or ʿndiruna (ʿndruna) literally means 'chamber' and can also be used to refer to a wedding chamber or canopy.

[3] Several different priestly texts, including the Scroll of Exalted Kingship (Classical Mandaic: Diwan Malkuta ʿLaita)[4] and The Great Supreme World (Classical Mandaic: Alma Rišaia Rba),[5] need to kept in the andiruna hut during the initiation ceremony, or else the ceremony would be deemed invalid without the presence of the texts.

[6] During the priest initiation ceremony, another reed hut, the škinta, is constructed to the north of the andiruna.

In contrast, the andiruna has a blue cloth roof to symbolize the color of Ruha.

[2] The škinta (cognate with the Hebrew word shekhinah; from the Semitic root š-k-n, associated with dwellings) symbolizes the "male" side, and is associated with the World of Light, priests, the right side, gold, and the taga (crown).

A tarmida initiate in the andiruna
The young man in the middle, who is undergoing the tarmida initiation ceremony , is reading the Sidra ḏ-Nišmata , the first section of the Qulasta , as he sits in front of the andiruna .
A reed house in the marshes of Basra Province , southern Iraq in 1978. The andiruna is based on such reed structures.