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yumemiyas-wips · 1 year ago
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According to my scant, second hand knowledge of the Jewish religion (idek the proper name, don't @ me), Catholicism, and Christianity, back when Jews were nomads, way before they settled down in one place, their god Yahweh was, in two words, a vicious dickhead of a storm god, and only after they settled down in Canaan did they try to calm him down by doing the theological equivalent of murdering the real wise and kind skydaddy god, El, blessed be his name, and then have Yahweh wear his flayed skin like some sort of grotesque mask and eat the rest, and that frankly goes pretty hard. Anyways I'm SOOO co-opting that into my writing, imagine worshipping the god that killed the supreme skydaddy and ate his corpse to gain his might. That's baller.
Edit: After further study, I have concluded that Yahweh was once an aspect of Qos, a mountain, weather and war god of the Edomite people. The ancient Israelites of Canaan then did a systematic eradication of every other god in the greater Canaan religion, including such gods as El and Asherah, Yam and Lotan, Arsu and Azizos, Aglibol, Malakbel, Yahribol, Bel, and Ba'al Hadad. In their shame after the crushing of the ancient Jewish kingdom under Babylon, the Jews, jealous in the banning of sacrifices to Yahweh, later wrote into their own Bible the banning of sacrifices to all gods. But Yahweh took sacrifices, and Yahweh took sacrifices in human infants, for Yahweh was a fellow Canaanite god just like the rest of them.
Edit 2: THIS POST IS ABOUT THE PRE-JUDAISM YAHWIST CULT OF THE ANCIENT CITY STATE OF ISRAEL AND HOW IT BECAME THE MODERN CULTS. Having to add this because some fucking [REDACTED] in the comments think that literal historical facts (with added hyperbole) is antisemitic somehow. They know who they are.
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sanguinesacrament · 2 years ago
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{The God of the Weeping Depths, the Serpent, the first Body, Womb, and Blood; The Wheel of Light} and so on is associated heavily with the moon. I think...This goes hand in hand with the idea that the serpent that propagated all magical beasts in Adenfel was a defector from another world, that it escaped to Adenfel to leave behind an old life and to finally be realized as the supreme divinity on this new planet. That it had once been human-like. And now what remains is a memory of its body and viscera in all its children. 
So it is believed. 
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foggynightdonut · 3 years ago
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Even then, mythological Gods was not flourished in Arabia
They are simply tribal gods and other assorted deities which represent some element of the polytheistic culture of pre-Islamic Arabia.  Which could be different from one tribe to another, one person to another.  The Arabs rooted on monotheistic ideas descended from Ishmael and or his brethren's. Their tradition of the one and only God is embedded in their culture. 
Ancient Arabian mythology
Arab’s collection of gods: Aglibol Allah Al-Qaum al-Lāt, al-‘Ilāhat Astarte Atargatis (Syrian) Atarsamain Beelshamen Bēl, Baʕl, Bēl-Šamīn Bes (Egypto-Arabic) Dhu’l-Halasa
Arabian mythology is the ancient, pre-Islamic beliefs of the Arab people. Prior to Islam the Kaaba of Mecca was covered in symbols representing the myriad demons, djinn, demigods, or simply tribal gods and other assorted deities which represented the polytheistic culture of pre-Islamic Arabia. It has been inferred from this plurality an exceptionally broad context in which mythology could flourish. Many of the physical descriptions of the pre-Islamic gods are traced to idols, especially near the Kabba, which is asserted to have contained up to 360.Gods
Hubal (Arabic: هبل‎) is regarded as the most notable and chief of the gods. The Kaaba may have been dedicated to Hubal. An idol of Hubal said to have been near the Kaaba is described as shaped like a human with the right hand severed and replaced with a golden hand.
In pre-Islamic Arabia, Allah was used by Meccans as a reference to a creator god, possibly a supreme deity. Allah was considered the creator of the world and the giver of rain. The notion of the term may have been vague in the Meccan religion. Allah was associated with companions, whom pre-Islamic Arabs considered as subordinate deities. Meccans held that a kind of kinship existed between Allah and the jinn. Allah was thought to have had sons and the local deities al-ʿUzzā, Manāt and al-Lāt were his daughters. The Meccans possibly associated angels with Allah. Allah was invoked in times of distress. Muhammad’s father’s name was ʿAbd-Allāh meaning “the worshiper of Allāh”.
The three daughters of Allah and chief goddesses of Meccan Arabian mythology were Al-lāt, Al-‘Uzzá, and Manāt. Each is associated with certain domains and had shrines with idols located near Taif which have been destroyed. Allāt (Arabic: اللات‎) or Al-lāt is the goddess associated with the underworld. Al-‘Uzzá (Arabic: العزى‎) “The Mightiest One” or “The Strong” was an Arabian fertility goddess. She was called upon for protection and victory before war. Manāt (Arabic: مناة‎) was the goddess of fate, the Book of Idols describes her as the most ancient of all these idols. An idol of Manāt was erected on the seashore in the vicinity of al-Mushallal in Qudayd, between Medina and Mecca. The Aws and the Khazraj, as well as the inhabitants of Medina and Mecca and their vicinities, venerated Manāt and performed sacrifices before her idol, including offering their children. Pilgrimages of some Arabs, including the Aws, Khazraj, Yathrib and others, were not considered completed until they visited Manāt and shaved their heads.
Other notable gods
1. Manaf (Arabic: مناف‎) was a god related to women and menstruation.
2. Wadd (Arabic: ود‎) was a god of love and friendship. Snakes were believed to be sacred to Wadd.
3. Amm (Arabic: أم‎) was a moon god worshipped in ancient Qataban. He was revered as in association with the weather, especially lightning.
4. Ta’lab (Arabic: طالب‎) was a god worshipped in southern Arabia, particularly in Sheba and also a moon god. His oracle was consulted for advice.
5. Dhu’l-Halasa (Arabic: ذو الحلاس‎) was an oracular god of south Arabia. He was venerated in the form of a white stone.
6. Al-Qaum (Arabic: القوم‎) was the Nabataean god of war and the night, and also guardian of caravans.
7. Dushara (Arabic: ذو الشرى‎) was a Nabataean god, his name meaning “Lord of the Mountain”
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shadowsofthecedars · 5 years ago
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Divinities Part VIII : Baalshamem
Name means: ‘Lord of Heaven’
Also known as: Lord of the Fortress
Parents: Elyon and Baalat-Berith
Siblings: Aratz
Consort: Aratz
Offspring: El, Dagon, Bethel, Thakaman-and-Shanam (some accounts), Baalat-Gebal, Asherah, Ashtart (some accounts), Hadad (some accounts)
Abode: Heaven
Colour: Blue, gold
Animals: Eagles
Equated to foreign deities: Anu, Ahuramazda (possibly), Khumban, Zeus Olympios, Zeus Helios, Ouranous, Uranus
Description:
Baalshamem forms part of a duad with his sister and consort, Aratz (together known as Shamem-and-Aratz, heaven and earth).  In the days of old, the two were joined together as one, however, Baalshamem kept angering Aratz by his taking of multiple concubines.  Eventually, her favourite son El attacked his father, and cut the two loose, placing the heavens above and the earth below.
He is the Sky Father, regarded as having supreme dominion over the heavens.  In this capacity, he has both solar and lightning attributes, with worshipers petitioning him for rain and sun, especially during times of drought.  He is also regarded as protecting hill-fortresses and soldiers.
At Tadmur/Palmyra, he formed part of a triad with Aglibol and Yarkhibol; at Harran with Sin and Nusku; and in treaties from Tyre and Qarthadasht was invoked in treaties alongside Baal-Zaphan and Baal-Malage. 
This god was also the favoured royal god of the Hellenistic Syrian empire, where he was identified with Zeus Olympios.
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