Yahweh the Dragon: Exploring a Neglected Biblical Metaphor

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First published online July 25, 2014
Yahweh the Dragon: Exploring a Neglected Biblical Metaphor for the Divine Warrior and the Translation of ’Ap

Abstract
In the Hebrew Bible, Yahweh is often depicted as a divine warrior, executing vengeance against his enemies. Some of these texts employ the image of Yahweh as a dragon-like creature who pours forth smoke from his nostrils and fire from his mouth. This article surveys the background of this metaphor by describing deities and monsters that breathe fire in the literature of ancient Greece, Egypt, and Mesopotamia, as well as the dragon-like Leviathan in Job (41.10-13 [Eng. 18-21]). Against this background, the article examines the two texts that most clearly exhibit the metaphor (2 Sam 22.9 // Ps 18.9 [Eng. 8]; Isa 30.27-33) and considers its implications for the translation of ’ap in these and other passages (Isa 42.25; Deut 32.22; Num 11.1). Although the LXX and modern translations uniformly render ’ap as “anger” in most of these passages, this article argues that it is more consonant with the dragon metaphor to translate the term as “nose” or “nostrils” (i.e., “the burning of his nostrils”).

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs...urnalCode=tbtd

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Who was the real God of the Jews.

The original religion practised in Syria-Palestine was the worship of the King, so for example Baal Melqart was both the name of the king of the Tyrians and also their god.

Likewise the other inhabitants of Syria-Palestine, those of Israil and Ioudia worshiped their king as a god along with the other deities such as Tammuz and Ishtar.

Ahab, the king of Israel is referred to on the Black obelisk of Shalmaneser as "Yahua the son of Khumri (Omiri)" and on the Moabite Stone as "Yahweh" and said to be the son of Omri. In other inscriptions Achaz is also called Yahaz and Hezikiah is also called Heziyahu.

Thus YHWH which was a standard epithet of the king became the name of the god of the Jews.

There is no correct way or transliterating the Hebrew expression "YHWH" and as well as being written Jehovah, or Yawheh it can also be written Ayahaewah.

It emerges that when written like this, Ayahaewah appears to be a corruption of the Hittite word Ahhiyawa which was their name for the Achaean Greeks who the Egyptians identified as the Ekwesh who were listed among the Sea Peoples. In Homeric Greek they were called Akhaiwoi. Herodotus says they were called Aegialean Pelasgi or Pelasgi of the Sea Shore.

Ekwesh = Eyakiwash = Ayahiwash = Ayahaewah = Akhaiwoi = Ahhiyawa = Aegialea = Achaean-ous = Ochean-ous = Sea Peoples.

Based on what has been discussed so far and Manethos identification of Seti II as the Pharaoh of the Exodus it is clear that the Sea Peoples were the real people of the Exodus who the bible subsequently mythologies into the ancestors of the ’Jews’.

The other Sea Peoples included the Peleset or Philistines who were followers of Dagon or Dionysus (their leader and first king) who took with him an army of Athenian Pelasgians in about 1400 BC and founded a colony when he campaigned in Syria-Palestine. The land may have been a gift from Amenhotep III for Dionysus assisting him to power.

From Egyptian we get:

Peleset = Philistines = Pelasgians = Thallasians = Sea Peoples.

According of Herodotus Greece was originally called Aigialea Pelasgia which means Land of Islands.

So if the Ekwash or Achaeans were the real people of the Exodus which is dated to 1193 BC then they must have taken the Greek word Agios/Agion/Agio as the title of their kings, which when corrupted into Hebrew or Aramaic becomes Yahu or YHWH, and is found in virtually all of the names of the "Jewish" kings. This explains why the most common name given to Orthodox Churches in Greece is "Agios Kyrios", the Greeks recognising that Agios was what YHWH stood for.

Just like the Assyrians incorporated the names of their ancestors Adad, or Vul, or Enlil into the names of their kings all of which were interchangeable, the "Jews" did the same and so Agios or Yahu or Akhaiwoi or Ayahaewah hence YHWH became their god.

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Dragon in Greek mythology is always a ship. The English word Dragon derives from the Greek word Triakontoron which means a 30 oared ship also know as a Triakonter. Dragon is a corruption of 
Trikontoron or 30 Oared Ship. The teeth were the oars. The sown men were the 
sailors.

Historically Dragons were characterised as winged sea serpents. That is exactly what Trikonters looked like. They had a bow with a figurehead on it, a stern with a tail and the oars moved up and down in unison like wings.

In Linear B spelling Trikon is spelled using exactly the same consonants as Dragon. D and T are the same sound in Mycenean Greek.

The dragon's head was the figurehead on the Trikonter. The dragon's wings were the oars beating up and down as the ship was rowed. There were even Trkonters that breathed out Greek fire.

The same analogy was used for the Hekatoncheres. 100 hands meaning the hands of the fifty rowers inside a Pentaconter. A Hekatoncheri was a 100 handed (or 50 oared boat) boat.

They were all built with figure heads like the Argonautica. Those are the dragon ships.

On top of this Eusebius and Jerome both state that the oars beating up and down in a ship were an allusion to the wings of a bird which is why Icarus and Daedalus were said to have flown away from Crete when in reality they actually fled on a ship.

[Hektor12]

Who was the real God of the Jews.

...And please tell me, why your nation is so proud of abandoning the gods of their ancestors and submitting god of the jews?

[kingmob]

...And please tell me, why your nation is so proud of abandoning the gods of their ancestors and submitting god of the jews?

That's not what the New Testament tell us.

Jesus Christ ΙΣΧΣ is the God of the Orthodox Romans, you can't be Greco-Roman and not be Orthodox, it's impossible. These "neo-Greek" pagan LARPers are nothing but a collection of degenerates and vile scum.

The pagans globally are a deluded bunch, a sign of our times, their re-appearance being a machination of certain groups working behind the shadows, their ultimate target the abolition of the Christian Faith.

[Hektor12]

abolition of the Christian Faith.

What does this result in the end?

[kingmob]

What does this result in the end?

You have to read and understand.

I can't tell you on a public forum, you have to discover it by yourself.

[Hektor12]

You have to read and understand.

I can't tell you on a public forum, you have to discover it by yourself.

It always, without exception, makes me sad to see people of 21. Century with a great knowledge of history, anthropology and genetics find the truth in some k years old middle eastern teachings.

Billions of people in the world live without that and i dont see them burning in the hell, life is going on..

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The Jews took Akhaiwoi and invented YHWH a misspelling of the Greek word Agios meaning holy or Aigaion meaning Sea which is why the Phoenician equivalent Yaw was a sea god. The original Greek version of the bible calls him "On"and On was an epithet for Poseidon the God of the Sea and the God of the Sea People.

The God of the Old Testament was whoever was Pharaoh at the time. The Hyksos dynasty of foreign kings was of mainly Greek origin.

Thou shalt not worship any Gods other than Pharaoh (ie. YHWH) meaning you will not follow or make alliances with the kings of other states that are hostile to Pharaoh.

Read Jeremiah who says in one verse thatSyria-Palestine belonged to the King of Egypt and in the next that the Lord gave all of this land to Nabuchadnesser. It is pretty obvious that the Lord was the owner of the land and that was Pharao.

Even Noah and the flood was plagiarized from the Greek king Ogyges Saga who was Janus II, (short for Oceanus) and ruled over Athens, Northern Greece, Italy, Scythia and Armenia. The name Aegeaus who ruled over Athens from 1282 BC is also a corruption of Ogyges or vica versa, as is Achaeaus, since in Linear B, G and K and Xi are all interchangeable being represented by the same symbol.The Scythian translation would indicate that the all of these names came from the same root as Agios, meaning Saintly, Holy or Sacred. The name Oceanus probably shares the same root too.

Alexander the Great was also God because he was Pharaoh of Egypt (Shishak V, Sekander) and a direct descendent of Zeus (Saasitepis, Sheshi) who was also Pharaoh of Egypt in 1674 BC, since the God of the bible was the deification of the Pharaohs of Egypt as shown by Jeremiah..