also it’s ‘Yahweh’ btw
It’s actually pronounced “Jod”
the only way it’s “Yahweh” is if it has some very special secret vowels because “יהוה” doesn’t sound like that lol
Isn’t that because ancient Hebrew used an abjad so they just didn’t write vowels at all
It’s still that way. I guess later some letters started indicating certain vowel sounds a bit more directly, but it’s mostly little dots and lines that only get used to teach or are placed on text where ambiguity isn’t acceptable.
Also, they transposed the German “J” to the english sounding “Y” at the beginning of “Yahweh” but did not transpose the German “W” into an English sounding “V” to match the Hebrew letter. They should either have it as JHWH or IHVH but instead we get a mix-and-match.
vav can do different stuff depending on context too. not sure vav as a vowel indicator is as old as the tetragrammaton? i know some features of the writing system are later innovations - most accomodations to vowels don’t go back to paleo-hebrew iirc, but the tetragrammaton probably isn’t that old anyway.
Anyway if that vav is signalling a vowel, it could be an english o/oo sound, or a lot of things
I’m not an expert, i am just the specific kind of nerd that will slowly learn archaic languages at whatever pace i can manage and i’ve got subpar hebrew literacy for it, so i don’t wanna mis-represent my credentials here.
For sure. I really liked all your comments on this thread. I’m just trying to ride your coattails.
YA GUEY PINCHE PENDEJO GUEY
Visceral sound memory
POR FAVOR
poor kid, but that’s all i can think of when people say Yahweh
Memory unlocked.
Explains a whole lot of this reality, its gueys all the way down to lowest hells and all the way up to the highest heavens. I look in the mirror I see a guey staring back at me, and all around me is guey. Next time I need to make sure I don’t pick the guey universe just because it’d be funny, its not funny at all and its definitely not chill as expected.
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Name of the Wind ahh lore
This is the reveal he’s saving for the third book
Skill issue. I can say it. I just don’t say it. I’d be rude if I said it.
Steve
No weh
I heard god’s true name once and it sounded like a pig pooping on his own balls. I converted immediately after.
This reminds me of a weird joke I heard once. It went something like this:
Imagine Bruce Wayne (in a very generous interpretation of the character) actually achieving all of his goals, not only ending crime in Gotham City but ending the conditions for crime even happening in Gotham City. That Gotham City would become a shining city upon the hill that is an inspiration to cities beyond, and eventually entire countries. Eventually, the crime-fighting masked vigilante that Bruce Wayne portrayed wouldn’t need to exist as something for villains to fear, but for everyone to aspire for as an ideal. Wayne Enterprises would become more than a corporation; it would become a political movement, then a philosophical one, aspiring to invent a new and better way of life. Indeed, imagine centuries of this rising, improving way of life until life itself transcended its old boundaries, even mortality itself, until one day, on a distant world…
A weary bedraggled being in search of answers to spiritual questions comes across a burning bush, awestruck by the sight, and asks the burning bush’s name.
spoiler
Literally Batman INC
What are you talking about? “Ivanova” is an easy name to say.
God’s real name is Gregory Gordon Godfrey and he lives on a plantation in Hawaii
In the early days, Yahweh was conceptualized as a jealous god among a pantheon. He was not the only god, just the aligned god of certain groups, contrasted to the competitors like Baal and preceded by those like El (later Elohim). Yahweh transformed over time from the favored and representative god of one group to being the correct and highest and then only god, becoming conflated with El much later.
bleach told me it’s pronounced yooha wahkah
Aum.
The idea that such a being would care even a whit about human existence is the height of arrogance. Spirituality I can understand as a personal predilection, but religion… religion is narcissists demanding that the universe acknowledge them.
