THE TRUE NAME OF GOD
(The "Historical Evolution" of the Hebrew God, variously called Yahweh, Yaw, Yah, Yahu, El or Elohim)
Yahweh is merely an amalgamation of various and multiple earlier gods and goddesses. The “Proto-Hebrews having imbued their God with the functions, epithets, symbols and achievements of many other earlier and contemporary gods and goddesses.
It is a scholastically well known fact that many portions of the Old Testament are dedicated to establishing Yahweh’s superiority over the other Gods.
Contrary to popular belief the Hebrews did not originally have a monotheistic religion. Theirs were the gods and goddesses of the land from which they were native; the hierarchy of gods and goddesses who included Baal, the god of storms, who made the land fertile, and Lotan, the seven-headed dragon, known to Old Testament readers as Leviathan.
Ashera, identical to the Egyptian Isis, There is Yam Nahar, the god of the seas and rivers, and other pantheons and hierarchies of gods and goddesses. A little known fact is that the Hebrews also had twelve main deities and a multitude of minor ones.
Ashera, identical to the Egyptian Isis, There is Yam Nahar, the god of the seas and rivers, and other pantheons and hierarchies of gods and goddesses. A little known fact is that the Hebrews also had twelve main deities and a multitude of minor ones.
The Bible’s repeated uses of “Pagan” mythologies confirm for us that the Semites believed that other Gods existed. They simply used the myths of other peoples to argue the superiority of Yahweh.
Strict monotheists would have felt no need to support a monotheistic viewpoint from “pagan mythology”.
In every case where these references are used it is to affirm the triumph of Yahweh over the other “Gods”, the establishment of his rule on earth and his superiority over the other gods.
These features can be found in Sumerian, Akkadian (later Babylonian and Assyrian) and even many Mesoamerican texts.
The accumulation of these legends and stories and their eventual incorporation into a single coherent saga with a definite theological outlook was a product of the astonishingly creative period of literature in the kingdom of Judah in the 7th through 6th century BCE.
The Bible's owes a great indebtedness to the motifs found in the literature of surrounding contemporary and ancient countries.
The literature created by the Sumerians left a deep impression on the Proto-Semites who in turn heavily influenced the Hebrews. One of the most thrilling aspects of reconstructing and translating Sumerian cuneiform script consists in tracing parallels and resemblances between Sumerian and Biblical literary motifs.
Since the Sumerians preceded and ruled the same lands prior to the rise of the Semitic peoples, there is no doubt that the Sumerians had directly and deeply influenced the “Proto-Semites”, including Abraham(Who belonged to Sumerian city of Ur) and especially the Canaanites and their neighbors, the Assyrians, Babylonians, Hittites, Hurrians, Arameans and Midianites amongst others.
These influences are easily traceable in matters of law, religion and philosophy as well as myths, legends and stories.
This information is not surprising; most scholars have long recognized that along with many other tribal chieftains of the period, Abraham led members of his tribe from the Sumerian city of Ur, west towards the Mediterranean, to the "promised land" of Canaan. With these “Proto-Semitics” came their Gods and Goddesses.
Thanks to the re-discovery in modern times, of considerable portions of Sumerian, Egyptian, Hittite and Hurrian, Ugaritic and many other ancient texts and literature it is now possible to recognize in the Bible many traces of Near and even Far Eastern mythologies.
These “traces” generally appear in three forms:
- Direct Parallels
- Allusions
- Survivals (in figurative expressions)
In all cases they are accommodated to the religion of Israel by boldly transferring to Yahweh the heroic feats of older/other pagan gods.
For example, Sumerian literature contains a number of literary forms and themes found much later in the Bible.
Some of the more conspicuous themes involve:
Sumerian Noah |
- The creation of the universe
- The creation of Man
- The techniques used in creation
- Paradise (Eden or Dilmun)
- The withholding of immortality from man
- The ‘Cain-Abel’ motif
- The ‘Tower of Babel’ motif
- The earth and its organization
- Divine retribution and natural catastrophe
- The plague
- The ‘Job’ motif
- Death and the under world
- Concerns with law, ethics and morality
- The flood (the story that has the closest connection with biblical literature.)
Below are just a few parallels to digest (there are many, many more):
The Throne of God
Enki/Ea
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Sits upon a throne decorated with pots from which flow two streams of water, indicating he is the source of the earth's streams of freshwater.
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Yahweh
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Sits upon a throne portrayed as being over a stream of freshwater that leaves the temple in Jerusalem and travels eastward to the Dead Sea, rejuvenating it.
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Many similar motifs can be found in:
The “Myth” of Adapa
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Food conferring immortality, a god denying man immortality, the acquisition of forbidden knowledge.
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The story of Genesis
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Food conferring immortality, God denying man immortality, the acquisition of forbidden knowledge.
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The Tower Of Babel
Enki/Ea
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Confounded the language of the people of the earth.
“Enki, the contender...En of cunning, the shrewd one of the land, sage of the gods, gifted in thinking, the En of Eridu, change the speech of their mouths, he having set up contention in it, in the human speech that had been one.”
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Yahweh/El
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Confounded man's single language because of their hubris in building the Tower of Babel.
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The Deluge
Enki/Ea
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Warned Ziusudra (or Utnapishtim) of an impending Flood that would destroy the world and all of mankind. Telling him to save himself and the seeds of all living things by building a boat.
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Yahweh/El
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Warned Noah of an impending Flood that would destroy the world and all of mankind. Telling him to save himself and all the animals by building a boat.
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(Later generations embellished this Sumerian myth into a world-encompassing flood. Archaeologists later found flood deposits at Utnapishtim's city of Shurrupak in Lower Mesopotamian, “the Flood” was determined to have been a flooding of the Euphrates river in the 4th-3rdmillenniums BCE, based on the microscopic analysis of the flood sediments.)
The biblical version of the "Great Flood’s" happy ending is chock full of biblical contradictions. It begins by telling of man's abominations including the corruption of the purity of the "Sons of God". A decision is reached to have all flesh perish.
Sumerian Ziggurats |
The same Deity rushes Noah in 7 days to build an Ark to save the seed of mankind and all living things. Why? Was the Deity's purpose in this to defeat his own plan? When the flood is over and the Ark when lands, the deity who is enticed by the smell of roasting meat, forgets his original determination to end all mankind, and even makes a covenant with Noah to never do so again.
The nagging contradictions can easily be placed to rest if one considers the fact that the bible’s version is an edited version of the original Sumerian account. As in many other instances, the edited "monotheistic" Bible has compressed into one deity the roles played by one or more other gods who did not always act in accord.
From the Sumerian version, Enki who disagreed with his brother Enlil’s command to destroy all humans & found a way to warn Utnapistim/Ziusudra(Noah Of Bible):
'Man of Shuruppak, son of Ubar-tutu: Tear down thy house, build a ship! Give up possessions, seek thou life! Foreswear belongings, keep soul alive! Aboard ship take thou the seed of all living things; That ship thou shalt build - Her dimensions shall be to measure…
From the Bible, God determined to end all mankind then gives a reprieve and warns Noah.
Genesis 6:14 Make thee an ark of gopher wood; rooms shalt thou make in the ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch.
Genesis 6:15 And this is the fashion which thou shalt make it of: The length of the ark shall be three hundred cubits, the breadth of it fifty cubits, and the height of it thirty cubits.
After the flood, Utnapishtim/Ziusudra(Noah) built an altar and offered a sacrifice.
From the Enuma Elish;
'the gods smelled the savor, the gods smelled the sweet savor the gods crowded like flies about a sacrificer'
From the Bible;
Genesis 8:20 And Noah builded an altar unto the LORD; and took of every clean beast, and of every clean fowl, and offered burnt offerings on the altar.
Genesis 8:21 And the LORD smelled a sweet savour; and the LORD said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake; for the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth; neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done.
There are a lot of gods that seem to like the smell of meat being cooked, including the Bible’s pure-energy, non-physical creator god who should not be interested in smells. Obviously this quote is taken from the older source, where the older gods are changed into Yahweh.
At first when Enlil discovered Enki's ploy of saving the Human he was furious. He soon relented after realizing that all livestock and produce had been destroyed in the flood and that Enki's forethought had also prevented a disaster for the Anunnaki. Enlil was very forgiving after hunger set in and he partook of the burnt sacrifices offered by Utnapishtim/Zuisudra/Noah.
A pledge was then made to the Adamu by the Elohim as also by Yahweh to Noah, that never again would the Elohim order their destruction.
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The Name of God
Moses then said to God, `Look, if I go to the Israelites and say to them, “The god of your ancestors has sent me to you,” and they say to me, “What is his name?” what am I to tell them?
God said to Moses, `I am who I am’. Exodus 3:13-14
As we have learned, Enki (`Lord of the Earth’) was called Ea in Akkadian (East Semitic) – that is to say in the Babylonian tradition. Scholars have determined that Ea was vocalized as ‘Eya’. So, when Moses stood before the burning bush and asked the name of the god of the mountain, did “God” really reply `I am who I am’ (Heb. Eyah asher eyah)? This puzzling phrase has long perplexed many theologians here is our simple explanation.
The voice of God simply replied `Eyah asher Eyah’ - `I am (the one) who is called Eyah’ – the name of Ea in its West Semitic (Hebrew) form.
As we have learned, Enki (`Lord of the Earth’) was called Ea in Akkadian (East Semitic) – that is to say in the Babylonian tradition. Scholars have determined that Ea was vocalized as ‘Eya’. So, when Moses stood before the burning bush and asked the name of the god of the mountain, did “God” really reply `I am who I am’ (Heb. Eyah asher eyah)? This puzzling phrase has long perplexed many theologians here is our simple explanation.
The voice of God simply replied `Eyah asher Eyah’ - `I am (the one) who is called Eyah’ – the name of Ea in its West Semitic (Hebrew) form.
Some Scholars have simply failed to recognize (most often those with strong theological ties) that this is another of those characteristic puns in which the Old Testament abounds. `I am (Eyah) he who is called (asher) Ea (Eyah)’ is a classic biblical play on words.
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It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out that the above statement makes no sense. The words properly translated are `Eyah has sent me to you’.
Still if you people think that it’s a far- fetched idea Im going to provide you all with further detail that will shed light on God’s non-God nature :
CASE 1} Genesis 18:-
The first god of the Semitic people was Dagan. Your blog date is the same as my birthday.
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ReplyDeleteGreat to see things from another perspective!
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What a blowhard you are.
ReplyDeleteIt is YHVH not YHWH.
The former is the tetragrammaton which is the root name of God.
The latter is a corruption of that name and used by the satan and the useful idiots who unwittingly get people to pray to him.
There is only one God because existance can only have one point of origin.
Praise be upon Jehovah
Praise be upon his name by all existance, now and forever.
ITS YHW
DeleteThe Prayer of Habakkuk – Likewise, the ancient poetic section that now functions as the conclusion of the book of Habakkuk (3: 3) reads:
חבקוק ג:ג אלוה מתימן יבוא
וקדוש מהר פארן סלה. Habakkuk 3:3 God is coming from Teman,
The Holy One from Mount Paran. Sela.
THE LAND OF SHASU, YHW
Biblical scholars have hypothesized that YHWH was originally worshipped in this area, in the south. This is supported by geographical records from various Egyptian temples that list areas located in southern Transjordan. These lists, dating from the 14th-12th centuries BCE, include a region referred to as “the land of Shasu, YHW.”
THE SPELLING OF YHW
Since the Egyptian writing system contains consonants and no vowels, the letter W in the word YHW cannot be a vowel, but reflects a consonant, which in speech would have been followed by a vowel. (In other words, the Egyptian appellation should be pronounced something like Yahweh and not Yahu.) The word “YHW” therefore corresponds to the name of the biblical God, YHWH.
It appears that YHW was the chief deity worshipped by the nomadic tribes in this southern region, which was therefore called by the Egyptians “the land of the Shasu, YHW.”
But how did the deity YWH become transformed into the God of Israel?
MAKING YHW(H) ISRAELITE: THE MIDIANITE HYPOTHESIS
The biblical narrative of Moses’ marriage to Tzipporah and the children born to them in Midian (Exodus 2:21-22, 18:2-5) reflects the marriage bonds created between the Hebrews who left Egypt and the Midianites whom they encountered on their way to Canaan. Alternatively, it is possible that some Israelites lived in the same area of the Midianites.
I think that such assumption can be supported by both: biblical and Egyptian sources.
Archaeological finds indicate that the 13th and 12th centuries BCE witnessed a flourishing of material culture in the northern Arabian Peninsula and in the Arava region. The special pottery associated with this culture is termed “Midianite pottery” or “Qurayyah ware” after the site in the northwestern Arabian Peninsula where these utensils were apparently manufactured. This Midianite pottery is evident also in the area of Seir – Edom.
It thus appears that the Hebrews adopted the Midianite deity YHW or YHWH, whom they came to know in their stay in the area of Seir – Edom which is in “the land of Shasu YHW.”
Hmmm
ReplyDeleteNames are like Titles...Labels..Attachments..Etc....They do not matter...as long as there are attachments there will be suffering......they are like cling ons that attach themselves to you..like evil spirits....to rid yourself from them...to release them..is to free yourself and open yourself to who and what you are....these labels..these people did not care about there names..the knowledge is what is important...to reveal who and what you are ..to guide you to REMEMBERING what is within You....You are all that there is....these attachments, the more you cling to, are what stops you from seeing what is right in front of you....ignorance...walking around in the dark...blinded....know thy self
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DeleteI am not a Religious person, just a seeker of Truth. I find Josephus’ comment in Against Apion 1.27 very curious regarding Manethos history of the followers of Moses:
ReplyDelete27. This is what the Egyptians relate about the Jews, with MUCH more, which “I omit for the sake of brevity”. - Josephus
Josephus 1:26
http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/sociopolitica/esp_sociopol_piso08b.htm
I agree the TF is an interpolation and a vey bad one at that but “the wise remain hidden.”
AbraCadAbra?
The Stellar Man, John Baines
Chapter II
Snip...
“The tradition transmitted by the great Hermetic Masters affirms that at a crucial moment in the history of humanity, a powerful diabolic Archangel, if we are allowed to call him thus, succeeded in penetrating the earth's occult defenses and entered its atmosphere, provoking extreme disturbances.
“To be able to imagine such a being, we suggest reading the book The Lurker at the Threshold by H. P. Lovecraft. According to Hermetic tradition, the direct, albeit unwilling cause of this catastrophe which affects us to this day, was Moses (Osarseph).
“Everybody knows that Moses appeared floating in a basket down a river and was subsequently adopted, deceiving the Egyptian priests of the time. They took him for an Egyptian and initiated him into the mysteries of ritual magic, which is a method for making the key notes of Nature vibrate, and thus produce certain phenomena which the operator wishes to achieve.
“The study of atomic physics shows us that it is theoretically possible to produce changes or transmutations in matter; therefore, there is nothing miraculous about these mutations being achieved by means of secret procedures.
“In spite of his esoteric identification with Egyptian magic, Moses was always loyal to his ancestral blood. Thus, his most powerful wish was to make himself the leader who would free his people from enslavement, leading them to the promised land. Guided by this desire, and conscious of the powerful forces he had learned to control, Moses had a daring idea: to make a magic pact or alliance with an angel, a divine creature charged with the task of providing him with power and assistance from heaven to save his people.
“After lengthy preparations done in deep solitude, he performed the ritual ceremony with magic words and corresponding invocations. In the midst of amazing atmospheric and terrestrial phenomena, an impressive being appeared, making Moses tremble with fear and panic, due to the tremendous force it projected. It will never be possible to know or even imagine the conditions under which the pact between man and heaven was made.
“The angel agreed to everything Moses requested and promised his help, demanding the strictest obedience in return.
“He revealed his name as Y., and requested that as a sign of union, all his followers should undergo a small ritual surgical operation, with a light discharge of blood. Every man who underwent this would come to be a son of Y.
“The blood that was shed sealed the pact.
Read the rest here...http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/brujos/brujos_hablanE2_01.htm
It explains much.
For ease of reading here are Manetho’s words without Josephus’ commentary in Two parts.
ReplyDeleteAgainst Apion 1.26 Titus Flavius Josephus, Romano Jewish,
37CE-100CE — quoting Manetho, Egyptian
Priest, historian c 300BC.
26. “After those (lepers) that were sent to work in the quarries had continued in that miserable state for a long while, the king was desired that he would set apart the city Avaris, which was then left desolate of the shepherds, for their habitation and protection; which desire he granted them. “
“Now this city, according to the ancient theology, was Typho's city. But when these men were gotten into it, and found the place fit for a revolt, they appointed themselves a ruler out of the priests of Heliopolis, whose name was Osarsiph, and they took their oaths that they would be obedient to him in all things. He then, in the first place, made this law for them, That they should neither worship the Egyptian gods, (thou shalt not worship idols”)nor should abstain from any one of those sacred animals which they have in the highest esteem, but kill and destroy them all; (the advent of kosher ritual slaughter) that they should join themselves to nobody but to those that were of this confederacy. “
“When he had made such laws as these, and many more (the Ten Commandments) such as were mainly opposite to the customs of the Egyptians, he gave order that they should use the multitude of the hands they had in building walls about their City, and make themselves ready for a war with king Amenophis, while he did himself take into his friendship the other priests, and those that were polluted (lepers; see Book of Numbers) with them, and sent ambassadors to those shepherds who had been driven out of the land by Tefilmosis to the city called Jerusalem; whereby he informed them of his own affairs, and of the state of those others that had been treated after such an ignominious manner, and desired that they would come with one consent to his assistance in this war against Egypt.”
“He also promised that he would, in the first place, bring them back to their ancient city and country Avaris, and provide a plentiful maintenance for their multitude; that he would protect them and fight for them as occasion should require, and would easily reduce the country under their dominion. These shepherds were all very glad of this message, and came away with alacrity all together, being in number two hundred thousand men; and in a little time they came to Avaris. “
The parallels with Moses actions as written in the OT and the Decalog are undeniable.
And now Amenophis the king of Egypt, upon his being informed of their invasion, was in great confusion, as calling to mind what Amenophis, the son of Papis, had foretold him; and, in the first place, he assembled the multitude of the Egyptians, and took counsel with their leaders, and sent for their sacred animals to him, especially for those that were principally worshipped in their temples, and gave a particular charge to the priests distinctly, that they should hide the images of their gods with the utmost care he also sent his son Sethos, who was also named Ramesses, from his father Rhampses, being but five years old, to a friend of his. He then passed on with the rest of the Egyptians, being three hundred thousand of the most warlike of them, against the enemy, who met them. “
ReplyDelete“Yet did he not join battle with them; but thinking that would be to fight against the gods (Moses was using magic with the help of His occult dictator, Yahweh), he returned back and came to Memphis, where he took Apis and the other sacred animals which he had sent for to him, and presently marched into Ethiopia, together with his whole army and multitude of Egyptians; for the king of Ethiopia was under an obligation to him, on which account he received him, and took care of all the multitude that was with him, while the country supplied all that was necessary for the food of the men. He also allotted cities and villages for this exile, that was to be from its beginning during those fatally determined thirteen years. Moreover, he pitched a camp for his Ethiopian army, as a guard to king Amenophis, upon the borders of Egypt. And this was the state of things in Ethiopia.”
“But for the people of Jerusalem, when they came down together with the polluted Egyptians, they treated the men in such a barbarous manner, that those who saw how they subdued the forementioned country, and the horrid wickedness they were guilty of, thought it a most dreadful thing; for they did not only set the cities and villages on fire but were not satisfied till they had been guilty of sacrilege, and destroyed the images of the gods, and used them in roasting those sacred animals that used to be worshipped, and forced the priests and prophets to be the executioners and murderers of those animals, and then ejected them naked out of the country. It was also reported that the priest, who ordained their polity and their laws, was by birth of Heliopolis, and his name Osarsiph, from Osyris, who was the god of Heliopolis; but that when he was gone over to these people, his name was changed, and he was called ‘Moses’.”
Fantastic , and so funny , Marduks planet is Jupiter , I think your Yahweh is the god Marduk, Jupiter . In the east he is the son of Ea , Enki . Its in their own bible that Yahweh is the lord of hosts , armies . Thats what Marduk Jupiter is . Jupiter isnt Ra in egypt he is Amon but I think he was synchronised with Ra to make amon ra . Their shite religion was developed to legitamise the power of emporers. In egypt the pharohs were considered the sons of Ra the creator god . Horus was seen as the son of Ra yet he is described as the son of Osiris . Iam sure that Osiris is Enki Ea . Ashur is another name for Osiris . Ea Enki is Dagon the half man half fish. In the east many kings were seen as the son of god or a manifestation of the god .
ReplyDeleteIf the moon is Kodesh and Mohammed was Kodesh or Kudesh that says it all . The moon in the east sin or rim sin Rama chandra. Chandra the moon . King Rim sin tried to make out he is a manifestation of vishnu , therefore a manifestation of the god on earth . Evidently so they could claim the right of ownership to a countries resourses and those of the countries they had conquered .
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