Christ Conspiracy_ The Greatest Story Ever Sold - Acharya S [59]
Thus, the tetragrammaton or sacred name of God IAO/IEUE/ YHWH is very old, pre-Israelite, and can be etymologically linked to numerous gods, even to "Jesus," or "Yahushua," whose name means "salvation" or "Iao/YHWH saves." As Higgins says:
The pious Dr. Parkhurst . . . proves, from the authority of Diodorus Siculus, Varro, St. Augustin, etc., that the lao, Jehovah, or ieue, or ie of the Jews, was the Jove of the Latins and Etruscans.... he allows that this ie was the name of Apollo ... He then admits that this ieue Jehovah is Jesus Christ in the following sentences: "It would be almost endless to quote all the passages of scripture wherein the name . . . (ieue) is applied to Christ . . . they cannot miss of a scriptural demonstration that Jesus is Jehovah." But we have seen it is admitted that Jehovah is Jove, Apollo, Sol, whence it follows that Jesus is Jove, etc.21
Yahweh had yet another aspect to "his" persona, as at some early stage the "sacred tetragrammaton" of "God" was bigendered. As Walker states:
Jewish mystical tradition viewed the original Jehovah as an androgyne, his/her name compounded as Jah (lod) and the preHebraic name of Eve, Havah or Hawah, rendered he-vau-he in Hebrew letters. The four letters together made the sacred tetragrammaton, YHWH, the secret name of God.... The Bible contains many plagiarized excerpts from earlier hymns and prayers to Ishtar and other Goddess figures, with the name of Yahweh substituted for that of the female deity.22
Thus, even Yahweh was at one time plural, but "he" eventually became an all-male, sky god. This singular Yahweh was a warrior god, representing the sun in Aries, which is ruled by the warlike Mars and symbolized by the Ram-the same symbolic ram "caught in a thicket" near Abraham and used by him as a replacement sacrifice for his son Isaac. This warrior god Yahweh was not only Jealous but also Zealous, as his name is rendered in Young's Literal Translation:
. . . for ye do not bow yourselves to another god-for Jehovah, whose name (is) Zealous, is a zealous God. (Exodus 34:14)
In fact, the same word in Hebrew is used for both jealous and zealous, although is transliterated differently, "qanna" being jealous and "qana," zealous.
As El Elyon was but one of the Canaanite Elohim, the Most High God, so was "Yahweh," as "El Qanna," the Jealous/Zealous God, which is why in the Old Testament he keeps sticking his nose in and shouting at everyone. The title "Jealous/Zealous" is also appropriate for a god represented by a volcano, as was Yahweh by the smoky and fiery Mt. Sinai. Hence, Yahweh's followers themselves were intolerant and hot-headed zealots.
As we have seen, Yahweh represented not only the sky but the sun, the heat, energy and fire of which were localized on the earth in the Jewish Yahweh, whose priests claimed dominance over all other gods and priests by using a volcano to frighten the Hebrews into submission. The word Yahweh or Yahveh in the Sanskrit means "overflowing," an apt description for a volcano god imposed upon the natives by the use of its eruptions and lava flows. In regard to Yahweh's volcanic nature, Stone relates:
In the Exodus account of the "mountain of God" we read these descriptions: "On the third day when the morning came, there were peals of thunder and flashes of lightning, dense cloud on the mountain and a loud trumpet blast; the people in the camp were all terrified." (Exod. 19:16). And in Exod. 20:18-21: "When all the people saw how it thundered and the lightning flashed, when they heard the trumpet sound and saw the mountain smoking, they trembled and stood at a distance."23
Deuteronomy 9:21 relates that Moses took the golden calf, ground it into dust and threw it "into the torrent that flowed down the mountain." Moreover, Numbers 11 and Psalms 11, 18 and 97 speak of the Lord's fire and volcanic activity. As Stone also states:
Surely the most vivid description of Yahweh as a volcanic mountain occurs in Ps. 18. Here we read, "The earth heaved and quaked, the foundations of the mountain shook; they heaved, because He was angry.