Under the topic El Shaddai, Dee wrote: > I certainly do NOT think YHVH is the "woman god" ... > I just think the whole of the Scriptures do not point us > to a "woman-god"...
I agree with Dee. I think YHVH represents a "father God", that is a "creator God", in normal Hebrew noun + adjective word order. If one gives these letters their ancient sounds, one can sense the English cognates. The yod is often parallel to a G via Germanic, a K via Greek, and a hard C or CR via Latin. Yod-resh-het = moon is parallel to GRoW via Germanic and AncLatin KReX which metathesized to cresc- from which we get increase (grow larger), decrease (grow smaller), crescendo (grow louder), crescent (moon-shaped) and croissant (a moon-shaped pastry). The moon is the growing-est thing in the sky. The ancient heh had a dalet+heh sound. This explains why the definite article is heh in Hebrew but "the" in English and makes the Hebrew word ToRaH cognate with truth. The consonantal vav had a PH or F-sound. For example, the Greek word phasis (phase of the moon) was borrowed into Hebrew as vav-samekh-sof (modern VeSeT = menstruation). The het usually appears in English as a W. If we give the het (without a schwa) its ancient W-sound, as in yod-resh-het (moon) = GRoW, then we hear that Adam was calling his wife Eve (Hebrew het-vav-heh) WiFth or wife. Returning to YHVH, we can hear the ancient sounds G-TH + F-TH, as in Gothic/Catholic (god-like) or CReaTor + Father/Vater. Izzy
