Miguel Connor higherside chats 2024 22:00 Scholarship is putting the origins of gnosticism more into ancient egypt
Asherah and Anat - supressed by The cult of Yahweh The male powerful god was elevated suppressed The shamanism of solomon and the prophets Margaret Barker Christ is ancient consort of Asherah Suppressing the older Jewish animist mystical spirituality
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Some scholars hold that Yahweh and Asherah were a consort pair in ancient Israel and Judah,[6][7][8][9] while others disagree.
El El is a Northwest Semitic word meaning 'god' or 'deity', or referring (as a proper name) to any one of multiple major ancient Near Eastern deities. Specific deities known as 'El, 'Al or 'Il include the supreme god of the ancient Canaanite religion[9] and the supreme god of East Semitic speakers in Early Dynastic Period of Mesopotamia.[10] Among the Hittites, El was known as Elkunirsa (Hittite: 𒂖𒆪𒉌𒅕𒊭 Elkunīrša). Although El gained different appearances and meanings in different languages over time, it continues to exist as -il or -el in compound proper noun phrases such as Ishmael, Israel, Samuel, Daniel, Raphael, Michael, and Gabriel.
In northwest Semitic use, ʼel was a generic word for any god as well as the special name or title of a particular god who was distinguished from other gods as being "the god".[11] El is listed at the head of many pantheons. In some Canaanite and Ugaritic sources, El played a role as father of the gods, of creation, or both.[12]
Yahweh Yahweh[a] was an ancient Levantine deity, the national god of the Israelite kingdoms of Israel and Judah,[4] and later the god of Judaism and its other descendant Abrahamic religions. Though no consensus exists regarding the deity's origins,[5] scholars generally contend that Yahweh is associated with Seir, Edom, Paran and Teman,[6] and later with Canaan. The origins of his worship reach at least to the early Iron Age, and likely to the Late Bronze Age, if not somewhat earlier.[7
The Tetragrammaton (YHWH), the main Hebrew name of God (Yahweh) inscribed on the page of a Sephardic manuscript of the Hebrew Bible (1385) In the oldest biblical literature, he possesses attributes typically ascribed to weather and war deities, fructifying the land and leading the heavenly army against Israel's enemies.[8] The early Israelites may have leaned towards polytheistic practices as their worship apparently included a variety of Canaanite gods and goddesses, including El, Asherah and Baal.