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   XPost: alt.religion.christian, sci.archaeology, alt.religion.islam   
   XPost: alt.bible, alt.atheism   
   From: agamemnon@hello.to.NO_SPAM   
      
   On 19/04/2024 00:29, David Dalton wrote:   
   > Do you know of any biblical, historical, or archaeological   
   > evidence that Yahweh was initially a solar deity?   
   >   
   >  From a google of   
   > Is Yahweh a sun god? :   
   >   
   > The following book turns up as first hit:   
   >   
   > The Solar Nature of Yahweh   
   >   
   > Reconsidering the Identity of the Ancient Israelite Deity   
   >   
   > Daniel Sarlo   
   >   
   > In The Solar Nature of Yahweh: Reconsidering the Identity of the Ancient   
   > Israelite Deity, the original nature of the chief god of the Hebrew Bible,   
   > Yahweh, is reexamined. Daniel Sarlo challenges the current consensus that   
   > Yahweh was initially a storm god by examining the relevant biblical texts and   
   > comparing them with Ancient Near Eastern texts, ultimately arguing that   
   > Yahweh was a solar deity. The implication of this research is that Yahweh was   
   > not a minor god who gradually accumulated characteristics to become the head   
   > of the ancient Israelite pantheon, but rather a significant god from the very   
   > beginning, or at least before the inception of the United Monarchy.   
   >   
      
   Jehovah was always a sea god. This clear from Sanchuniathon's Phoenician   
   history and the redactions of it by Philo, Porphyry and Eusebius (who   
   identify the Hebrew gods with those of the Phoenicians because of their   
   names and similarities and those of the Greeks by history and   
   chronolohy), where he is referred to as Pontus the son El who is   
   identified with Kronos. Pontus is the same god as Yam Nahar (River Sea)   
   or Yaw in the Baal Epic. That the Phoenicians had a sea god is also   
   confirmed by Herodotus since Carthage was a Phoenician colony in North   
   Africa know as Libya (though technically today this is Tunisia).   
      
   If you identify El with Helios since both are in the same generation of   
   Titans/Elohim then you have a sun god there.   
      
    From Sanchuniathon the original Hebrew/Phoenician pantheon consisted of   
   Elyon (Most High) the father of Baal Shamen/Epigeius (Sky God), the   
   father of El (Kronos) the father of Jehovah (Yam Nahar/Yaw/Pontus). El   
   was the brother of Atlas/Tsebaoth (God of Armies/War God), Eetylus,   
   Dagon (Zeus-Arotrios, fertility god), Astarte (Aphrodite), Ashera   
   (Rhea), and Baaltis (Demeter & Dione combined, fertility goddess after   
   whom the festival of Beltane (May Day) is named).   
      
   Jehovah's brothers were Sadidus/Shaddai (Almighty God), Muth/Mot   
   (Underworld God), El the younger, Zeus Belus/Dushara, Apollo/Hubal, and   
   Typhon/Suduc/Sutekh/Set all by Ashera, and Iedud by Anbret.   
      
   His sisters included Anath/Anat/Athena and Persephone/Kore.   
      
   Baal-Hadad/Adodus protagonist of the Baal Epic was Jehovah's cousin   
   being the son of his uncle Dagon. He is also referred to as a son of El   
   and is the brother of Demarus the father of Melkathrus (Herakles). It's   
   possible that Baal-Hadad's mother was the same mother as Demarus, a   
   concubine of Baal Shamen given to Dagon by El and El could have slept   
   with her beforehand, as could Baal Shamen, so Baal-Hadad could claim any   
   of the three as his father.   
      
   Baal-Hadad/Adodus is equivalent to Hades and Adonis/Adonai, both being   
   underworld gods, due to Baal-Hadad's journey into the realm of Mot   
   (Death). Jehovah (Yam-Nahar/Yaw/Pontus) can also be considered as an   
   underworld god for the same reason.   
      
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