By Gerry in July 2018
Hello again, dear readers.
I welcome you all to our central piece, where I am going to share my link to the Ancient Spookians, the progenitors of today’s hidden aristocracy.
If you came here by coincidence and don’t know what I’m talking about, I’d suggest you read the other papers first.
ANCIENT SPOOKS – Library of Rickandria
This one will be very uncomfortable since it concerns the Names of God.
YHVH: The Truth About “Yahweh/Jehovah” – Library of Rickandria
Yes, that God.
Is Your God a Devil? – Library of Rickandria
I think some of God’s names were edited away, because either someone played around with those names, or the Biblical editors thought someone did, or the Biblical editors thought that some Biblical readers would think someone did.
I am one of those readers.
We’ll also see that the editors weren’t paranoid:
A lot of Biblical material refers to Ancient Spookia, and a lot of puns as well.
And we’ll see that it was much closer to Ancient Israel than is let on.
I stress again that this does not change the Biblical message, which we mustn’t confuse with the attitude of some messengers.
- Lords
- Lords
- Lords
Much as I’d like to cut right to the chase, we need a short vocabulary lesson for the link between human lords and divine lords.
If you know Hebrew already, you can skip this.
Is the English Language Really Reversed Hebrew? – Library of Rickandria
In the Bible, there are mainly three Hebrew words for “God” or “gods”:
- Adon
- Baal
- El
However, all three can also mean simply “lord”, as for human lords.
Like many other ancient languages, Hebrew has no exclusive word for gods.
(Conversely, the English uppercase LORD in the Bible does not stand for “lord”, but for God’s name YHWH, which has no officially known meaning.)
There is also a hierarchy of sorts:
Adon (אדן (means “lord” as a title for people used in everyday language, just like “milord”.
It also appears as a title for Canaanite gods in inscriptions.
The Biblical God is also called Adon (lord), Adoni (my lord), but curiously also plural Adonai (my lords).
Strong’s Hebrew: 113. אָדוֹן (adon) — lord (biblehub.com)
“Adonai” is the official reading instruction (Qere) for all instances of YHWH, expressed by the Masoretic vowel-dots underneath.
Adon appears sometimes in theophoric names.
Baal (בעל (means “lord”, but also “owner”)
Strong’s Hebrew: 1167. בַּ֫עַל (baal) — owner, lord (biblehub.com)
It is used in Hebrew for people with a special ownership designation (“landlord”, “husband”).
For Canaanite gods, it is a general title, preceding their actual names (Baal-Something).
For the Biblical God, this word is not used, but seems to be declared as abolished in HOSEA 2:16, so it may have been used in earlier times.
Baal has thus become a Biblical synonym for “foreign god” in the many warnings against idolatry, and the word became further demonized in Christian times (Baal-Zebub).
Christian Program & Purpose – Library of Rickandria
Baal appears a lot in theophoric names of Canaanites, but very rarely with Hebrews.
It’s assumed that this is only because later Biblical censors purged the Baal particle from all Hebrew names, such as by changing Ish-Baal into Ish-Boshet.
El (אל (also means “lord”)
Strong’s Hebrew: 410. אֵל (el) — God, in pl. gods (biblehub.com)
It can be followed by an attribute (El-Something), just like Baal.
Both Canaanite gods and the Biblical God are called El.
Gods & Religions on Planet Earth – Library of Rickandria
Curiously, as with Adon, the Biblical God is called El (lord), but also plural Elohim (lords) and Elohai (my lords).
This is explained as majestic plural, or as a remnant of polytheism.
On a very few occasions, the Bible uses Elohim with plural verb forms, so the sentence is then about “Gods”.
In the Bible, the title El is only very rarely used for human lords, but when it is used, it is reserved for the highest of lords (EX 22:8, JUDG 5:8, 1 SAM 2:25, EZEK 17:13, JOB 41:25).
Interestingly, El appears in theophoric names very often, with both Hebrews and Canaanites.
That’s all common knowledge, so why did I put it up here?
Just to show that grammatically, gods were close to lords.
And it seems that either some aristocratic spooks made one giant pun out of it, or some editors thought they did, or they thought we’d think they did.
The Names of God
Okay, enough of the preliminaries.
I’ll now show you the link that led me to the Ancient Spookians.
That link itself is weak, yet what I found on the other side is such a mountain of evidence that I think it’s worth sharing the link as well.
Of all the things I found in the Bible, this is the strangest.
If it is what I think it is, then it would explain nearly everything.
Yet the little snippets I found are not enough for a conclusion.
And that is again due to censoring.
The most important names of God for our purpose here are the YHWH Tetragrammaton (English LORD) and the many variants of El.
The Real Tetragrammaton: Further Exposing Christianity – Library of Rickandria
Since El appears in many ancient texts all over the Levant and beyond as a term for gods, whereas YHWH appears only in the Bible, El is thought to be the older name.
YHVH: The Truth About “Yahweh/Jehovah” – Library of Rickandria
Yet YHWH already appears in the Book of Genesis, the oldest book in content and style.
Evidence that YHWH was a Dragon – Library of Rickandria
In the Biblical narrative, God reveals his name YHWH to Moses in the Book of Exodus, stating that this revelation is new and that the name YHWH has not been revealed before.
“The Kabbalah”: The Truth of “YHVH” – The Jewish God – Library of Rickandria
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ANCIENT SPOOKS – Part IV: Spookdom’s trail into history – Library of Rickandria