He lengthens life to 700 years if God allows it.
Raphael translates to "God heals" or "He who heals" in Hebrew, underscoring his association with healing and divine restoration.
Means "medicine of God" or "God heals," representing the healing power of God.
His name generally means "God is my light" or "Fire of God".
Derived from Hebrew words that can be translated as "light of God" or simply "God's light." This name reflects the aspect of God associated with illumination and enlightenment.
He asks God how Israel can be kept in misery if God is just.
The archangel Uriel is sent to answer the question, responding that God's ways cannot be understood by the human mind.
Micha-El(God)
Translates to something akin to "protector of God," symbolizing God's strength and protection.
Disgusted by all this, "the Gods" decided to have a Great Flood to rid the earth of the Nephilim and other ghastly creatures (according to the Book of Enoch.
He plays a crucial role in God's decision to imprison the rebellious Watchers.
Michael is often portrayed as a mediator who communicates God's judgments and also as a protector who stands up against the evil deeds of the fallen angels.
“Now have come the salvation and the powerand the kingdom of our God,and the authority of his Messiah.For the accuser of our brothers and sisters,who accuses them before our God day and night,has been hurled down.11 They triumphed over himby the blood of the Lamband by the word of their testimony;they did not love their lives so muchas to shrink from death.12 Therefore rejoice, you heavensand you who dwell in them!But woe to the earth and the sea,because the devil has gone down to you!He is filled with fury,because he knows that his time is short.”
For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a cry of command, with the voice of an archangel, and with the sound of the trumpet of God.
He is said to be friendly, asking God for mercy toward humans, and is, according to Muslim legends, one of the first to obey God's orders to bow before Adam.
It is said that Michael is at the right hand of God.
He has always been with God for he did not venture away.
And he is like a messenger for God.
If He wishes to speak to someone, perhaps not quite so directly, God will sometimes send Michael or Gabriel.
"Manna" from the Bible refers to the miraculous food that God provided for the Israelites during their 40-year journey through the desert after their exodus from Egypt.
"Adam!" said the ox, "when thou wast rebellious, did God smite thee thus?"
"O God!" cried Adam to the Almighty, "is every beast to reproach me, and recall to me my sin?"
Then God heard his cry, and withdrew from beasts the power of speech, lest they should cast their sin in the teeth of men.
Exodus 16:15 - When the Israelites saw the food provided by God, they said to one another, "It is manna," because they did not know what it was.
Nehemiah 9:20 - It mentions that God gave his good Spirit to instruct them and did not withhold his manna from their mouths.
Psalm 78:24 - It mentions that God rained down manna for the people to eat and gave them the grain of heaven.
There they (Adam and Eve) saw a tree, and found on it solid manna; and wondered at God’s power.
2 Then Adam and Eve cried, and prayed God to deliver them from their paws.
3 Then the Word of God came to them, and drove away the lions from them.
4 And God said to Adam, “O Adam, what do you seek on the western border?
8 After God had thus spoken to them, they went back to the Cave of Treasures.
But their flesh was dried up, and they were weak from fasting and praying, and from the sorrow they felt at having trespassed against God.
They laughed at the chief creator because he lied, saying, “I am god and there is no other god but me.” When they came to him, they said, “Is this not the god who ruined our work?”
When he saw the likeness of their mother, Eve, he said to her, “What is it that god said to you?
For he knows that when you eat from it your mind will be sobered and you will become like gods, knowing the difference between evil and good people.
These great signs appeared only in Egypt, not in other lands, signifying that it is like the paradise of god.
The children (of Seth) remained in this condition for a whileIn order that when the Spirit descends from the holy realmsThe Spirit can raise up the children and heal them from all defectsAnd thus restore complete holiness to the fullness of God.
Fate changes unpredictablyIt is of different sorts just as the demons are of different sorts.Fate is hard.Fate is stronger thanThe gods, the authorities, the demons, the generations of peopleWho are caught up in it.
Out of fate emergedSinfulness, violence, blasphemy, forgetfulness, ignorance,Weighty commandmentsHeavy sinsTerrible fear.In this way all of creation became blind,Ignorant of God above everything.
And the people who were attracted were led astray into troublesAnd were greatly misled.And grew oldExperiencing no pleasure,And diedFinding no truth,Never knowing the true God.
Seraphim are described in the Bible as the highest order of angels and are closely associated with the presence of God.
In Isaiah 6:1-7, seraphim are depicted as standing above the throne of God.
These beings are intensely luminous and fiery — the word "seraph" itself can be translated from Hebrew as "burning" or "fiery." The seraphim are involved in worship and praise of God, continuously proclaiming His glory by saying, "Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of hosts; the whole earth is full of His glory."
In Christian theology, seraphim hold a high rank in the hierarchy of angels and are often associated with purity, light, and fire, reflecting their role in worshiping God and their nature as beings of intense holiness and light.
After killing Abel, Cain was marked by God and sent away from his family.
I have killed a man for wounding me, a young man for injuring me.24 If Cain is avenged seven times, then Lamech seventy-seven times.”25 Adam made love to his wife again, and she gave birth to a son and named him Seth, saying, “God has granted me another child in place of Abel, since Cain killed him.”26 Seth also had a son, and he named him Enosh.
25 Adam made love to his wife again, and she gave birth to a son and named him Seth, saying, “God has granted me another child in place of Abel, since Cain killed him.”
Noah’s warning comes from God.
But God had put into them a mixture as of savory bread and blood.
Then Jesus was led by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. After fasting forty days and forty nights, he was hungry. The tempter came to him and said, “If you are the Son of God, tell these stones to become bread.”
Jesus answered, “It is written: ‘Man shall not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God.’”
Then the devil took him to the holy city and had him stand on the highest point of the temple. “If you are the Son of God,” he said, “throw yourself down.
Jesus answered him, “It is also written: ‘Do not put the Lord your God to the test.’”
Jesus said to him, “Away from me, Satan! For it is written: ‘Worship the Lord your God, and serve him only.’”
1 Then the Word of God came and said:—
3 And Adam said to God, “O Lord, we came to this place because of the heat of the fire, that came over us inside the cave.”
4 Then the Lord God said to Adam, “O Adam, you dread the heat of fire for one night, but how will it be when you live in hell?
10 And God withdrew His Word from Adam.
11 But Adam and Eve lived under the rock three days and three nights, as God had told them.
12 And God did so to them because they had left their cave and had come to this same place without God’s order.
13 But, after three days and three nights, God created an opening in the dome of rock and allowed them to get out from under it.
Abel's sacrifice is favored by God over Cain's, indicating his moral superiority.
The murder of Osiris sets off a cycle of vengeance and resurrection that involves many other gods and goddesses in Egyptian mythology, underpinning the mythological explanation of the cycles of nature and the eternal struggle between order and chaos.
Although Osiris has a more direct role as a god of the afterlife, both figures' deaths deal with themes of life after death.
According to Genesis 4:25, Seth was born after Abel's murder by Cain, and Eve believed that God had appointed him as a replacement for Abel.
The origin of the name ( שת ) is not clear, but it is assumed that it means named, because when she is born, Eve says: " ...God gave me ( שית ) another son in place of Abel; because Cain killed him.
In ancient Egyptian religion, Seth is a god associated with chaos, violence, deserts, storms, and foreigners.
According to mythology, Osiris was a benevolent king of Egypt who was murdered and dismembered by his brother Seth, the god of chaos and destruction.
Osiris's wife, Isis, reassembled his body and resurrected him with the help of the god Anubis.
Osiris then became the ruler of the underworld and a god symbolizing resurrection and eternal life.
In both the Poetic Edda and the Prose Edda, she is known for her golden hair and is married to the thunder god Thor.
From the "Unknown God" emanate aeons, a series of paired female and male beings.
The aeons that result are representative of the various attributes of God, which are indiscernible when they are not abstracted from their origin.
God and the aeons comprise the sum total of the spiritual universe, known as the Pleroma.
In some versions of the myth, the Aeon Sophia imitates God's actions, performing an emanation of her own, without the prior approval of the other aeons in the Pleroma.
As in Genesis, the demiurge declares himself to be the only god, and that none exist superior to him.
His descendants were known as the "sons of God" due to Seth's piety and divine attributes.
His wisdom and appearance led people to call him "God," and his children were termed "sons of God."
6 Furthermore his father, Adam, told him of the works of God, and of the garden.
8 But as for Abel, he prayed to God, and drove away Satan from him; and did not believe the words of the devil.
Then when it was day, an angel of God appeared to him, who said to him, “Do not cut short either fasting, prayer, or offering up an offering to your God.
1 But when Adam saw that the older brother hated the younger, he endeavored to soften their hearts, and said to Cain, “O my son, take of the fruits of your sowing and make an offering to God, so that He might forgive you for your wickedness and sin.”
2 He said also to Abel, “Take some of your sowing and make an offering and bring it to God, so that He might forgive you for your wickedness and sin.”
Then after that, they stood up and prayed that God would accept Abel’s offering.
5 Then God looked at Abel and accepted his offering.
And God was more pleased with Abel than with his offering, because of his good heart and pure body.
8 Therefore God did not accept his offering, because his heart was full of murderous thoughts.
In Gnostic cosmology, Saklas is sometimes identified as a creator or demiurge, a lesser god responsible for the material world.
In some Gnostic texts, Saklas is equated with the Old Testament God and is depicted as either ignorant or malevolent, or both.
This contrasts sharply with the benevolent, transcendent God (often called the true God or the Monad) of higher realms in Gnostic theology.
The beginning of Worship (false gods of Abrahamic religions.)
Some scholars suggest it indicates the beginning of formal worship or prayer practices among humans, while others see it as the start of calling upon God’s name in a profane manner.
Adam teaches his son Seth about his past, saying that he and Eve were created by the god Sakla out of the earth, but they were once with the eternal God and like great eternal angels.
They recognized the god who created them and served him in fear and slavery.
Sakla again tries to destroy the pure who know of the eternal God.
The tenth kingdom believes that he was born of a cloud of desire that his god loved.
However, the generation without a king believes that God chose him from all the eternal realms.
A statuette of a pantheistic deity with the face of the god Bes.
Before Zep Tepi: This period is dominated by mythological gods who are considered to have ruled Egypt before the historical period began.
And I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded because of their testimony about Jesus and because of the word of God.
The second death has no power over them, but they will be priests of God and of Christ and will reign with him for a thousand years.
The first Lamech had taken God’s assurance of sevenfold vengeance on anyone who kills Cain (4:15) and multiplied it by eleven for even a blow—that is, vengeance was no longer in God’s hands, and it was fiercer (4:23–24).
The first embraces humans’ descent into sin and departure from God; the second bemoans it and looks for the gracious act of God.
Rhetorically, the contrast enlists the audience to approve of the second and to side with him so that they can be loyal to God’s purpose through Noah—of whom Abram, and thus Israel, are the proper heirs.
God now ordered the soul to enter the body.
It showed some indisposition to obey; thereupon God exclaimed: "Quicken Adam against your will, and, as a penalty for your disobedience, you shall leave the body sorely against your will."
Then God blew the spirit against Adam with such force that it entered his nose, and ran up into his head, and as soon as it reached his eyes Adam opened them, and saw the throne of God with the inscription upon it: "There is no God but God, and Mohammed is His prophet." Then the soul ran into his ears, and Adam heard the song of the angels; thereupon his tongue was unloosed, for by this time the soul had reached it, and he said, "Praise be to Thee, my Creator, one and only!" And God answered him: "For this purpose are you made.
But when he stood upright he was obliged to close his eyes, for the light of God's throne shining directly into them blinded them.
"It is the light of a prophet," God answered, "who will spring from thee in later ages.
Adam recoiled with horror, and exclaimed, "God has given me one thousand years; wherefore comest thou now?"
In the creation myth part of the epic, the gods create humans to be their servants.
The story involves a series of events where humans multiply rapidly and become noisy, disturbing the god Enlil's sleep.
In response, the gods first attempt to control the human population through drought, famine, and plague.
When these measures fail to reduce the noise, the god Enlil decides to send a great flood to wipe out humanity.
Atrahasis, the protagonist of the story, is warned about the flood by the god Enki, who instructs him to build an ark to save himself, his family, and pairs of animals.
Atrahasis follows Enki's instructions, survives the flood, and later offers sacrifices to the gods.
In the end, humans are recreated to continue serving the gods.
One notable reference is to the period of 3,600 years during which the gods imposed hard labor on the Igigi.
The text describes how the gods bore the noise and toil of humanity for this lengthy span of time.
If the gods described in Athrasis are extraterrestrial, then could it be that an epoch refers to a synodic period?
They appear in Sumerian, Akkadian, Babylonian, and Assyrian myths, and are often depicted as a pantheon of gods and goddesses.
However, there are also significant differences between the two versions, such as the length of the flood and the reason for God's decision to destroy the earth.
The Eridu Genesis tells the story of a great flood that is sent by the gods to destroy humanity because of their wickedness.
The flood is survived by a man named Ziusudra, who is instructed by the god Enki to build a large boat to carry himself, his family, and various animals to safety.
After the flood, Ziusudra lands on a mountaintop and offers sacrifices to the gods.
This passage describes the instructions given to the hero of the story, Ziusudra (also known as Utnapishtim), by the god Enki to build a boat in preparation for the coming flood.
The lord who gives the instructions to the hero Ziusudra (also known as Utnapishtim) is the god Enki.
God creates Adam and Eve, the first humans, and places them in the Garden of Eden.
According to the “first Eve” account, God fashioned Lilith from dust and placed her in the garden alongside Adam.
God, or Sons of God or Lord of God is the English translation for the Hebrew word Elohim or YHWH Elohim.
Mauro stated the word God is the same word for:
Leanna provides an in-depth explanation of the Atlantean perspective on God:
Cosmic Consciousness: God is viewed as the ultimate Cosmic Consciousness, an energy construct beyond any language, including the Atlanteans'.
Transcendent and Inclusive: God transcends language, views, and all constructs.
Sound and Light: God is perceived as a sound that transmits into a resonant vibration of light.
Genderless and Beyond Love: God is genderless and is not limited to the concept of love.
Instead, God is seen as the Ultimate Transmission of Grace, all-inclusive, embracing even hate, fear, and evil.
Complex Understanding: Leanna highlights that understanding God fully is complex and challenging.
Those close to understanding God do so by recognizing the inclusion of all aspects of existence without fear.
Leanna's description of God emphasizes the all-encompassing, transcendent, and inclusive nature of the divine, suggesting that a true understanding of God involves embracing all aspects of existence and recognizing the interconnectedness of everything.
This curiosity was sparked by reading "Chariots of the Gods" by Erich von Däniken when I was twelve.
The book suggested that ancient gods might have been visitors from outer space.
Where we start with the most obvious question - who is God?
They were the first 'middle man' between us and God.
This conflict is thought to be the source of many later conflicts between the gods.
Enlil was the father of several other important deities in the Sumerian pantheon, including Ninlil (goddess of grain and fertility) and Nanna/Sin (god of the moon).
This comes from the Sumerian myth known as "Enki and the World Order," and describes a scene in which the gods gather to assign various roles and responsibilities:
"Anu, king of the gods, they appointed to be their shepherd; the heavenly Anunnaki they entrusted to him.
According to Mutwa, Africa is the cradle of civilization, and its languages and cultures provided the foundation for many aspects of Sumerian civilization, including their pantheon of gods.
He was also known to the Babylonians as “Oannes,” and to the Egyptians as “Ptah.” He was the god of wisdom and knowledge, and throughout time his symbol has been the snake.
Hea/Ea was the Sumerian god Enki, a name meaning “Lord of the Earth” or “Lord of the Below.”
Enki was often depicted as a god of rivers, oceans, and underground springs.
Enki was also a god of wisdom, knowledge, and magic.
In the Sumerian context, Enki is a god of water, knowledge, creation, and mischief.
It is associated with fresh water and is considered the domain of the god Enki (or Ea), who is often depicted as a deity of wisdom, creation, and water.
"Anu, king of the gods, they appointed to be their shepherd; the heavenly Anunnaki they entrusted to him.
Quetzalcoad, the great teacher of the Mayans, was known as Viracocha to the Incas and as the sun god Ra to the Egyptians.
Sargon, the first great leader of the Akkadian dynasty, which succeeded the Sumerians, attributed his knowledge to the god Anu, while the Babylonian king Hammurabi was said to have gained power through Marduk, again a reference to the accounts of the Anunnaki.
The Babylonian trinity was composed of Hea, Anu, and Bel. Bel represented the sun, and was the favorite god.
(Accuracy assessment: Bel (Lord) often referred to Enlil or, in later Babylonian times, to Marduk as chief god.
It was not primarily or consistently the sun god; the sun god was Shamash (Utu in Sumerian).)
The supreme triad in Babylonian/Sumerian religion was indeed Anu (sky/heaven god), Enlil (later called Bel or Belus, god of earth/storms/wind), and Ea (also Hea or Enki, god of fresh waters/wisdom/crafts/underworld).
Anu is the equivalent of the unmanifested deity AIN SOPH, while Bel is the Spirit of God or Sephira, and Hea the Universal Soul or wisdom of the three combined (SD I:357).
This imprint pictures a sexual intercourse of sun god Utu with Inanna, a goddess of the Sirius star.
On the right stands the moon god Suen dressed in a woollen skirt.
This trio: the moon god, the sun god and the Sirius goddess are pictured on many cylinder seals.
In the next verse the conjunction of Sirius with the sun is described as Inanna riding together with her brother, the sun god Utu: Source
Today, El in the Bible is translated as God to the Hebrews, but El was the planet Saturn.
Note: this connection appears in Philo of Byblos (1st–2nd century CE), who reports that the Phoenician god El/Elus was equated with Kronos.
El was the high god.
A star god associated with Saturn, worshiped by some Israelites (Amos 5:26, sometimes translated as "Sikkuth").
In Roman religion, Saturnus (Saturn) was the god of agriculture, time, renewal, and abundance.
Saturnus was equated with the Greek god Cronus, though his Roman worship emphasized agricultural fertility over the Greek titan’s darker aspects.
Saturnalia was an ancient Roman festival held in honor of the god Saturnus, typically celebrated in mid-to-late December, around the winter solstice.
Connection to Saturnus: As the god of agriculture and renewal, Saturnus was seen as the divine ruler who presided over this idyllic era, fostering fertility and well-being.