Nevertheless, by the new kingdom he was less prominent as a moon deity than the other gods with lunar connections, thoth and khonsu. Yaho, yahweh, yahreah, allah, yah, lah, yhwh, jhvh, yalza etc. However, there are none of these more difficult, or certainly more controversial than the moon god, yah. Yah is also the goat god with whom also is associated the moon. The segments of the moon were also used as fractional symbols in writing. His name means traveller, and this may relate to the perceived nightly travel of the moon across the sky.
Jun 16, 2015 yah yahwah tahwahsha yahwahshi ahayah jesus yahweh etc are moon god deities. Yah lah,the other egyptian moon god yahweh osiris scribd. Urs chief god was the moon god nannar or nanna and a shrine at ur was excavated belonging to enki of nearby eridu. Calling jesus yah baal and or also the moon god is praising him with the names of idol gods and applying idolatry to our god and savior. Aug 22, 2010 yah, was the name of the god of the midians into which moses supposedly married by marrying the daughter of a midian priest. The god of the old testament started out as just one of many deities of the. Is it coincidence that the jewish name for the moon contains the germ of the egyptian yah.
Soma, like other moon gods is regarded as the sacred bull which is sacrificed. 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. Therefore, we cannot say that the egyptians knew the name yah before the hebrews. Khonsu khonsu was an ancient egyptian god of the moon since the earliest times in egyptian mythology. Khonsu was instrumental in the creation of new life in all living creatures. Iah simple english wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. He believes that the midianite jethro introduced his soninlaw, moses, to a primitive monotheism of the moon god, under the name yah weh. He is most notable for creating the ancient lunar calendar. Jehovah and yahweh are baal ahayahyashiya israelites unite. Iah was also assimilated with osiris, god of the dead, perhaps because, in its monthly cycle, the moon appears to renew itself.
The moon god ah comes into prominence during the egyptian war of independence. In fact, the name yah is derived from the fourletter yhwh yahweh, and according to the strongs exhaustive concordance, the name yah means. Yhw seems to be a variation of jahw, which would indicate that the shasu of yhw were a semitic people who worshiped the egyptian moon god iah under the name yah and yhw. The starting point for these theorists is an antischolarly bias against the possibility that god is who the bible says he is, namely, the oneandonly. On the other hand, the followers of ra, the sungod, believed in a heaven of a. The best available documentation is that of george hart, a dictionary of egyptian gods and goddesses, but few other scholarly references make mention of this specific egyptian deity. Yah, the other egyptian moon god many topics in ancient egyptian religion can be fraught with complexities. So the sympathetic thoth gambled with iah and won five days worth of moonlight. Jewish god yahweh originated in canaanite vulcan, says new. The name yah is also found in the construct word hallelu yah, which means you pl. His symbols were variously the ibis, falcon and new moon.
Iah, transliterated as yah, jah, jahw, is a god of the moon in ancient egyptian religion. Jehovah and yahweh are baal ahayahyashiya israelites. By the new kingdom 16th century to 11th century bc he was less prominent than other gods with. George hart, in his a dictionary of egyptian gods and goddesses believes that these foreigners in egypt may have associated yah with the akkadian moon god, sin, who had an important temple at harron in north syria. She is also shown with a headdress resembling a pair of horns with the moon. Nov 19, 2011 iah is a very early god of the moon in ancient egyptian religion, and his name, j sometimes transliterated as yah, jah or aah, simply means moon. The syllable is a national adaptation and one of the many forms of the mystery name iao. Apr 16, 20 therefore, we cannot say that the egyptians knew the name yah before the hebrews. The word, as claimed in the zohar, through which the elohim formed the worlds. This insane conjecture is used to justify the interpolation of alleluia into the word of god and then make this heavenly saved multitude praise jesus as the egyptian yah god. He is associated with other lunar deities including thoth and khonsu who may have. Iah is said to be a god of both time and fertility. Yahweh desired to both defeat egypt and redeem israel through the plagues.
Obviously the egyptians borrowed the name yah from the hebrews. His origins reach at least to the early iron age and apparently to the late bronze, and in the oldest biblical literature he is a stormandwarrior deity who leads the heavenly army against israels enemies. Iah, ioh yah is the total divinity of the moon, as opposed to other gods thoth, khonsuwho represent certain aspects of it. Yah, the other egyptian moon god by jimmy dunn many topics in ancient egyptian religion can be fraught with complexities. It is not the name of god and it is not an abbreviation of the alleged name yahweh.
He was usually depicted as a man with the head of a falcon. Secondly, the references on yah as an egyptian moon god are slim. It is also transliterated as yah, yah w, jah, jahw, joh or aah. He is mentioned largely from the twentieth century bc onward and is depicted in human form, but can also be represented by the falcon and the ibis. You will see as you scroll down that yah is another symbolic name for baal and it also represents the egyptian moon god. The cult of the moongod was the most popular religion throughout ancient mesopotamia. Yaho, yahweh, yahreah, allah, yah, lah, yhwh, jhvh, yalza. Yah then becomes conceptualised as a lunar deity, iconographically anthropomorphic but whose manifestations, from the hieroglyphic evidence, can include the crescent of the new moon, the ibis and the falcon comparable to the other moon. Because ra had laid a curse upon sky goddess nut, she could not give birth to a child on any day of any year. Origin of the name yahweh david ickes official forums. The assyrians, babylonians, and akkadians took the word suen and transformed it into the word sin as their favourite name for this deity austin potts, the hymns and prayers to the moon god, sin, phd. I note that some cylinder seals show a crescent moon near enkieas head and at his eridu temple the dock for his boat was called the quay of the new moon.
Did jesus change his name to yah or baal in heaven. Osirisiah, closest appearance to the archaic god iah. Interestingly when christians praise their gd they use the word helelu yah, which means o yah. Have a list of egyptian gods hanging around the room. The claims that the egyptian god name was amen is a twist and distortion and misunderstanding of the ancient egyptian language. As a result of the functional connection between them he could be identified with either of those. The moon was a god, perhaps the oldest of all that were worshiped in egypt.
Yah may have been an import to egypt brought by semitic immigrants who based his profile on the mesopotamian god sin. Yah, was the name of the god of the midians into which moses supposedly married by marrying the daughter of a midian priest. Iah is best known for gambling away five days of moonlight in a dice game. The words halleluyah and hallelujah are not in your bible. The corollary to this, however, is that references to yah are generally more astronomical than theological. In freemasonry we see both the sun god and the moon god on the left and the right side of yhwh. At that time the israelites worshipped yahweh alongside a variety of canaanite gods and goddesses. By the new kingdom he was less prominent as a moon deity than the other gods with lunar connections, thoth and khonsu. The assyrians, babylonians, and akkadians took the word suen and transformed it into the word sin as their favourite name for this deity austin potts, the hymns and prayers to the moongod, sin, phd. Put the two words together, you have yahshu or yahshu, the egyptian moon god of the sky. The cult of yhwh as god of metallurgy originated among seminomadic copper smelters between the bronze and iron age, suggests biblical scholar.
As they assimilated into the egyptian milieu, they conflated yareach with the egyptian moon god yah, thus making the names interchangable cf. Jh, transliterated as yah, jah, jahw, joh or aah is a god of the moon in ancient egyptian religion. It is also transliterated as yah, yahw, jah, jahw, joh or aah. It is likely this name is the same one canaanites applied to yamm as yaw or yawu. Iao iao is seen in connection with magic and mysticism among ocult groups is the greek form of yah. Yah lah, the other egyptian moon god egypt travel guide.
Trying to understand the changing roles of gods such as re, osiris and amun are difficult if not impossible with the limited text available to us today. Moon god in depth expose on yah and other composite ancient egyptian deities. Yahweh is a pagan name the greatest truth never told. Synopsis of israels serpentmoon god, yahweh yhwh, the. His name khonsu also spelled as chonsu, khensu, khons, chons or khonshu which means the traveller or the wanderer, reflects to the moon wandering across the night sky.
Moses completely rejected worshipping the bull god and fought against it. Is the semites letter aleph, meaning ox, related to. In this role, he assumed the lunar aspect of thoth also known as djehuty, who was the god of knowledge, writing and calculation. Yasha is the true name of the messiah and means saviour in hebrew. By the new kingdom, he was less prominent than other gods with lunar connections, thoth and khonsu. To a certain degree the gods of egypt were quite different from the deities of the surrounding countries. For special or important gods, learners create posters that depict the god. When the hyksos were eventually forced out of egypt and back into canaan, they brought back with them the god yah. The encyclopedia claims that yah and yahwehyahveh did not come from hittite, persian, egyptian, or greek sources. Iah, jah, aah, ah is an ancient egyptian lunar deity. Iah continued to appear in amulets and occasional other representations, similar to khonsu in. If the god the multitude in heaven worships really a yah god. That peacock yahweh doesnt call himself jealous as well as.
This ancient deity must have been closely associated with the theban religious cult which ra apepa, the hyksos king, singled out for attack, because the name of the queen mother, ahhotep, signifies ah is satisfied, and that of her victorious son ahmes, born of ah. Mar 21, 2015 meanwhile other sects perceived the shekinah or matronit as the female presence of god on earth. To understand the conclusions regarding the moon serpent association, it would be fruitful to understand els association with the moon. Yah as an inscription, yah of gat gath, first surfaces in canaan on a late bronze age ewer found in a temples debris at lachish, not the. Yahweh a pagan deity by brother kaleef karim it is interesting how nonmuslims always attack the name of allah god saying it is a moon god, even though they dont have not a shred of proof from quran or the hadith. Yah is the deity in the egyptian pantheon whose name means moon.
The bible explicitly tells us that god has one, which indicates he had to be distinguished from other celestial. This name was a modification of the original egyptian yah we, a. Yah is the shorten form of yhwh both carrying the same meaning existing one. This bronze statuette of the seated god yah is a copy of the original from the hermitage collection of ancient egyptian. Egyptian mythology had a variety of male and female deities associated with aspects of the moon. While many think the name iah or yah is a sacred name for the true god, the history of it goes back to egypt. Moses, the tutmoses, and the exodus barbara pfeffer billauer. The concordances point yahshua to the aramaicsyrian. The association between the semitic gods, wadd, yah, bulls, serpents and the moon has always been a puzzle. Yahweh is a tribal patron form of a more ancient cosmic deity, who only. This name of god occurs about 50 times in the tanakh. Yah lah,the other egyptian moon god free download as pdf file. Israels serpentmoon god yahweh yhwh, the jewish snake god.
Archaeological record shows much proof that the god of the names yah and yahweh is the same god of the ancient assyrian pagan. Alternative spellings of his name include iah, aa, ah, aos, yah, aah tehuti or aah tehuti that may also mean collar, defender or to embrace. The idea that yahweh started out as an edomite, midianite, or canaanite deity is a modern myth promoted by secular scholars. The muslim god allah is the ancient arabic moon god of war, hence the muslim symbol of the crescent. Also of interest is the egyptian moon god iah, who became associated with yhwh. Jewish god yahweh originated in canaanite vulcan, says new theory. Khonsu traveller chonsu khensu khons chons khonshu is a god of the moon and associated with the passage of time and the nightly travel of the moon across the sky. Yah is the egyptian moon god and shua is the egyptian sky god. However it is admitted that the name ya and yah, even yahu, were used in babylon before 2500bc and found there on clay tablets. The gods of the egyptians or studies in egyptian mythology. Because neither pharaoh nor the egyptians would willingly glorify god, yahweh. And as any cosmological person will know, moonlight is not measured in litres or. One of the false gods the jews worshipped was jah or yah. A dictionary of egyptian gods and goddesses, routledge, 1986, isbn 0415059097 im netz ve weakln yah, the other egyptian moon god englisch.
For more information, see list of egyptian gods and goddesses. The sun god yah ra we know was in relation to assyrian worship of yahweh. It is said by one scholar that ya, yah, and yahu was a foreign god. It is also transliterated as yah, yah w, jah, jah w, joh or aah. Dec 20, 2012 yahweh a pagan deity by brother kaleef karim it is interesting how nonmuslims always attack the name of allah god saying it is a moon god, even though they dont have not a shred of proof from quran or the hadith. Documented proof that the oldest bibles contained his holy name within the nomina sacra. Many topics in ancient egyptian religion can be fraught with complexities. Hence the moon god was arabic and not a native egyptian god. And this yah was anciently worshiped by paganized jewish baalite worshipers. Yeshua or yeshu are not the name of the saviour and proof is found. It is generally thought that yah is a shortened form of yhvh. Yahweh and jehowah are not names of god thats another.
Yhw seems to be a variation of jahw, an early form of the name yhwh. This pagan idol has its roots in babylon and in egypt. I have no trust in netanyahu or the jewish people 1ki 19. Alternative spellings of his name include iah, aa, ah, aos, yah, aah tehuti or aah tehuti that may also. Jun 04, 2014 secondly, the references on yah as an egyptian moon god are slim. Yah was also the name of the desert god worshipped by the bedoins. How the jews invented god, and made him great archaeology. The cult of the moon god was the most popular religion throughout ancient mesopotamia. Iah moon he was popular during the middle kingdom and is associated with other moon gods such as thoth and khonsu. His names translate into the egyptian word of the moon. Yahshua and all variations of it descend from the pagan moon god name yhwh. Yah egyptian god simple english wikipedia, the free. It is also transliterated as yah, yahw, jah, joh or aah.
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