The Protoindo European god Yayash, Yaë or Yave, a protective god whose symbol was a tree, signifying possibly '"walking", "going", "a pilgrim", has been dated back to the Indus River valley, circa 2900 B.C.E. He has been identified with the Turko Syrian Yahveh, a "sacred animal or organization".
"Yahweh appears to have been originally a sky god - a god of thunder and lightning. He was associated with mountains and was called by the enemies of Israel 'a god of the hills'. His manifestation was often as fire, as at Mount Sinai and in the burning bush." "A shorter form, 'Yah', was also used (Exodus 15:2) and some scholars believe that this is the older form, originating in an exclamation to God - 'Yah!' - which came to be accepted as the divine name. Others claim that it is from the root 'hayah', 'to be' or 'to become', and that it meant 'I am that I am' or I will be that I will be'. According to one tradition of the call of Moses, the divine name Yahweh was revealed to him in Egypt: - Great Events of Bible Times
"Originally, these four consonants [in YHWH] represented the four members of the Heavenly Family: Y represented El the Father; H was Asherah the Mother; W corresponded to He the Son; and H was the Daughter Anath. In accordance with the royal traditions of the time and region, God's mysterious bride, the Matronit, was also reckoned to be his sister. In the Jewish cult of the Cabbala God's dual male-female image was perpetuated. Meanwhile other sects perceived the Shekinah or Matronit as the female presence of God on Earth. The divine marital chamber was the sanctuary of the Jerusalem Temple, but from the moment the Temple was destroyed, the Matronit was destined to roam the Earth while the male aspect of Jehovah was left to rule the heavens alone." - Laurence Gardner, Bloodline of the Holy Grail, p. 18
One of the last items faced concerning the Scriptures is of more recent origin and may account for the vast majority of the linguistic problems that occur. I refer to the reworking of the Hebrew language by the Masorites and Tiberians, between the 6th to 12th centuries C.E. The Masorites were responsible for many of the alterations in the vowels and definitions of the Hebrew words. In that the language had not been a spoken one for at least a hundred years before their endeavor, and not until 1948 was it brought back to life again after not being spoken for nearly 1600 years. This is one reason why meanings of a number of words are unknown thus making it difficult for the modern scholar to rely solely on the Hebrew version as the last authority. This is why the tablets from Ebla are still important as the language is akin to the Hebrew and can give us a clearer understanding of 'uncertain' words.
- Rev. Robert Palmer (private correspondence).
Because the Hebrew language does not employ vowels in its written form, the correct pronunciation of the Ineffable Name of God was lost & not rediscovered until about 300AD by the Kabbalists who gave it the title Tetragrammaton, "the word of four letters," & "the square name," or more simply, "the square." At that time the Shem-ha-meforash became represented by the simple form YHVH. -Charles Ponce, Kabbalah, p 175
This hypothesis is not intrinsically improbable, and in Aramaic, a language closely related to Hebrew, "to be" actually is hawa--but it should be noted that in adopting it we admit that, using the name Hebrew in the historical sense, Yahweh is not a Hebrew name. -Ency Brit 11Ed Vol 15 p 321
2007-04-25 19:27:46 · 11 answers · asked by naz 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Interesting, But really, The Christians are not worshiping a sky God, and No moslem worship a moon God, you can ask either of them.
2007-04-25 20:41:25 · answer #1 · answered by the_silent_philosopher 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Christianity plagiarized many of the beliefs that pagan religions held and called them their own. The winter solstice celebration was originally the celebration of the "birth of the sun God" but Christians changed it to "the birth of the son of God"
http://www.medmalexperts.com/POCM/getting_started_pocm.html
2007-04-25 19:39:09 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Many try to disprove God is real. but realy I do not care where the name came from the fact is Jesus lives today and guides all those wholook to him with open hearts and minds.
2007-04-25 19:39:04 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
The God of all true religions is the One True God of All in All. We just worship our different expressions of God in different ways.
2007-04-25 19:32:53 · answer #4 · answered by Christine S 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋
The same reason why people thought muslims worship a moon God.
2007-04-25 19:30:09 · answer #5 · answered by Adia Azrael 4 · 8⤊ 1⤋
Slander.
http://watchtower.org/e/20000622/
2007-04-25 19:37:02 · answer #6 · answered by achtung_heiss 7 · 0⤊ 5⤋
This is awesome info. Got any links becuase I'm a nerd and I like to read about the evolution of religions.
2007-04-25 19:33:21 · answer #7 · answered by Harry P. Ness 2 · 2⤊ 2⤋
everything christian was ripped off from pagans--but this is an excellent retort to the "why do muslims worship a moon god" questions
2007-04-25 19:38:04 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
The truth hurts sometimes.
2007-04-25 19:33:25 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 3⤋
Christmas is based in Pagan rituals too. Shhh...don't tell!
2007-04-25 19:30:08 · answer #10 · answered by Esma 6 · 11⤊ 2⤋