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The Greatest Elohim – Ancient Cosmology E3
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The Waters Are the Prerogative of God
In the egyptian story telling, the water are a neutral pre creation reality. They actually are responsible for creating everything. In babylonian cosmology, you have the waters, out of which come the old gods who establish the world. And then the waters are so powerful they threaten the world. Tiamat comes out and threatens everybody. So in genesis one, the beginning, out of the gate, you have all these lines about god and the waters. The precreation state is waters. Why does genesis one start with al the stuff about the waters? Yeeans it about why n't weo tak talking about things?
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