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Mythology-101
The beginners guide to the stories we tell ourselves, about ourselves.
#6 The Hibiru File
§ M6. The Hibiru File
The self-designation: Yehudi :: YHU :: YOD – HE – VAU. The name of the tribe encodes the name of their creator deity.
Elements of the Hebrew Biblical Semitic myth :
El / Elyon : supreme deity AKA YHVH / Yahweh / Jehovah
Elohim : emanations of Elyon, the superspecies
Adam : humanoid offspring of the Elohim, the Adamic race which creates humanity; tribally, the Yehudin
Eve : the terrestrial domain of Adam, the Promised Land, Israel
Enoshoot: “humanity,” the human races apart from the Adamic race; the Goyim, the Nations, the Gentiles
Pre-Flood scenario:
Adam and Eve, wrongly assumed to be the primal parents of the human species including all races
Cain and Abel
Seth? Genesis 4: 25: “And Adam knew his wife again, and she bore a son and named him Seth, ‘For God has appointed another seed for me instead of Abel, whom Cain killed.’ ”
Noah… transitional. Note that Hebrew geneology (all those begats) makes Noah out to be descended from Seth
Post-Flood scenario:
Noah…
Abraham
Melchizedek
Abraham – Sarah : parents of the Jewish peoples
Abraham – Hagar: parents of the Arabic peoples
Isaac : first-born of Abraham, child sacrifice motif
Ishmael : son of Abraham by his concubine Hagar, progenitor of the Ishmaelites, Arab peoples
Note also: Languages that carry the mythogen: Hebrew, Arabic, Aramaic. Locale: the Near East, Canaan, Palestine
Next step in M7 Detecting the Anomalies: compare this entire complex of elements to see if equivalents or parallels can be found in other mythic narratives around the world
From Not in His Image, Ch. 4, The Cult of Righteousness
§ The decisive event in the sacred history of the ancient Jews occurs in I Samuel:
Then all the elders of Israel gathered themselves together, and came to Samuel . . . , And said unto him, Behold, thou art old, and thy sons walk not in thy ways: now make us a king to judge us like all the nations. (1 Sam. 8: 4–5)
The key phrase here is “like all the nations.” Biblical historians locate the patriarch Samuel around 1100 B.C.E., about eight hundred years after Abraham. From the time of the first patriarch, the Israelite community had been ruled by a council of elders, called judges, who were closely advised, if not controlled, by a hereditary priesthood. This was a patriarchal society with a strong priestly element, but it was not a theocracy “like all the nations” in the ancient Near East. In the days of Samuel, faith in father god Jehovah was declining, but “all Israel, from Dan even to Beersheba, knew that Samuel was established to be a prophet of the Lord” (1 Sam. 3: 18). As he approached death, the elders of the community, acting it seems out of spiritual insecurity, asked Samuel to establish a king for Israel comparable to the kings of neighboring nations. In this single, decisive event the institution of monarchy was adopted by the Hebrews. So extraordinary was this development that Mircea Eliade wrote:
The monarchy is interpreted as a new covenant between Yahweh and the dynasty of David, a continuation of the covenant of Sinai. It is in this valorization of a foreign institution as a new act of sacred history that we can appreciate the originality of the Israelite ideology of kingship.81
Monarchy was, as Eliade stresses, a “foreign institution” for the Hebrews. Its adoption marks a crucial point of departure for that people, and, indeed, for humanity at large. §
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The beginners guide to the stories we tell ourselves, about ourselves.
#6 The Hibiru File
§ M6. The Hibiru File
The self-designation: Yehudi :: YHU :: YOD – HE – VAU. The name of the tribe encodes the name of their creator deity.
Elements of the Hebrew Biblical Semitic myth :
El / Elyon : supreme deity AKA YHVH / Yahweh / Jehovah
Elohim : emanations of Elyon, the superspecies
Adam : humanoid offspring of the Elohim, the Adamic race which creates humanity; tribally, the Yehudin
Eve : the terrestrial domain of Adam, the Promised Land, Israel
Enoshoot: “humanity,” the human races apart from the Adamic race; the Goyim, the Nations, the Gentiles
Pre-Flood scenario:
Adam and Eve, wrongly assumed to be the primal parents of the human species including all races
Cain and Abel
Seth? Genesis 4: 25: “And Adam knew his wife again, and she bore a son and named him Seth, ‘For God has appointed another seed for me instead of Abel, whom Cain killed.’ ”
Noah… transitional. Note that Hebrew geneology (all those begats) makes Noah out to be descended from Seth
Post-Flood scenario:
Noah…
Abraham
Melchizedek
Abraham – Sarah : parents of the Jewish peoples
Abraham – Hagar: parents of the Arabic peoples
Isaac : first-born of Abraham, child sacrifice motif
Ishmael : son of Abraham by his concubine Hagar, progenitor of the Ishmaelites, Arab peoples
Note also: Languages that carry the mythogen: Hebrew, Arabic, Aramaic. Locale: the Near East, Canaan, Palestine
Next step in M7 Detecting the Anomalies: compare this entire complex of elements to see if equivalents or parallels can be found in other mythic narratives around the world
From Not in His Image, Ch. 4, The Cult of Righteousness
§ The decisive event in the sacred history of the ancient Jews occurs in I Samuel:
Then all the elders of Israel gathered themselves together, and came to Samuel . . . , And said unto him, Behold, thou art old, and thy sons walk not in thy ways: now make us a king to judge us like all the nations. (1 Sam. 8: 4–5)
The key phrase here is “like all the nations.” Biblical historians locate the patriarch Samuel around 1100 B.C.E., about eight hundred years after Abraham. From the time of the first patriarch, the Israelite community had been ruled by a council of elders, called judges, who were closely advised, if not controlled, by a hereditary priesthood. This was a patriarchal society with a strong priestly element, but it was not a theocracy “like all the nations” in the ancient Near East. In the days of Samuel, faith in father god Jehovah was declining, but “all Israel, from Dan even to Beersheba, knew that Samuel was established to be a prophet of the Lord” (1 Sam. 3: 18). As he approached death, the elders of the community, acting it seems out of spiritual insecurity, asked Samuel to establish a king for Israel comparable to the kings of neighboring nations. In this single, decisive event the institution of monarchy was adopted by the Hebrews. So extraordinary was this development that Mircea Eliade wrote:
The monarchy is interpreted as a new covenant between Yahweh and the dynasty of David, a continuation of the covenant of Sinai. It is in this valorization of a foreign institution as a new act of sacred history that we can appreciate the originality of the Israelite ideology of kingship.81
Monarchy was, as Eliade stresses, a “foreign institution” for the Hebrews. Its adoption marks a crucial point of departure for that people, and, indeed, for humanity at large. §