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The Greatest Elohim – Ancient Cosmology E3
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The Abyss in Hebrew, Tohom, Is the Waters Under the Land
The word tohom, the first three letters there, that's the word for abyss, begins with the same three letters as tohu, wild and disordered when you're reading in hebrew. In babylonian cosmology, the waters begin as neutral, but en they become diabolical, in tiamat, in her assault on the land. And so here i do thank the biblical author's phrasing things to bring up that negative portrait. He's winking at his babylonian neighbors here with describing the land with a word that rhymes with tiamat,.
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