Wadd in Islamic Tradition
The suggestion that Wadd may correspond to Babylonian or Assyrian fertility gods stems from shared characteristics and symbols found in ancient Semitic religions.
Her influence extended across Semitic cultures, and her worship involved themes of love, reproduction, and abundance.
Regional Adaptations: Wadd may represent a localized expression of a broader Semitic tradition tied to fertility and love.
This blending of traditions illustrates the interconnected nature of ancient Semitic cultures and their religious practices.
Idols worshipped by the people of Nuh
Suwa’ might have connections to water deities in ancient Semitic traditions.
Kronos/Saturn and Jacob/Israel in Phoenician Tradition
In the Canaanite tradition, "El" was not just a name but also a title, meaning "God" or "The Mighty One." It signified the supreme deity, the father figure of the gods, and was common across various Semitic cultures, including Phoenicians and Hebrews.
Mount Hermon
Mount Hermon served as a symbolic landmark for the Amorites, a Semitic people that occupied parts of the Levant.
In ancient Semitic mythology, Mount Hermon was considered a cosmic mountain, a type of world axis or axis mundi.
The Aleutian Islands
They came from Asia, then, as now, to a large extent the home of semi-barbarians, except where the sway of Suernis had extended a civilizing influence by sending out the tribes which, in a later day, were to occupy so large a niche in history under the name of the Semitic races.
The migrants are characterized as coming from Asia, with some described as "semi-barbarians." However, a civilizing influence from a place called "Suernis" had affected parts of Asia, leading to the emergence of groups later recognized as the Semitic races.
The Gods of the Phœnician also Kings of Atlantis
"The Semitic languages also are all varieties of one form of speech.
Though we do not know that primitive language from which the Semitic dialects diverged, yet we know that at one time such language must have existed.
Traditions of Atlantis
But it seems that these ancient divinities are grouped together as "the Aditya;" and in this name "Ad-itya" we find a strong likeness to the Semitic "Adites," and another reminiscence of Atlantis, or Adlantis.
The Origin of Our Alphabet
"According to the views which, since Champollion's great discovery, have been gradually adopted regarding the earlier condition of the development of alphabetical writing, the Phœnician as well as the Semitic characters are to be regarded as a phonetic alphabet that has originated from pictorial writing; as one in which the ideal signification of the symbols is wholly disregarded, and the characters are regarded as mere signs for sounds." ("Cosmos," vol.
The Question of Complexion
160): "The language of the ancient Egyptians, though it cannot be classed in the Semitic family with Hebrew, has important points of correspondence, whether due to the long intercourse between the two races in Egypt or to some deeper ancestral connection; and such analogies also appear in the Berber languages of North Africa."
201.) The same author believes that tribes belonging to the Semitic type are also found in America.
Corroborating Circumstances
How are we to explain the existence of the Semitic race in Europe without Atlantis?
The Deluge Legends of America
The Deluge of Genesis is a Phœnician, Semitic, or Hebraic legend, and yet, strange to say, the name of Noah, which occurs in it, bears no appropriate meaning in those tongues, but is derived from Aryan sources; its fundamental root is Na, to which in all the Aryan language is attached the meaning of water--νάειν, to flow; νᾶμα, water; Nympha, Neptunus, water deities.
The Deluge Legends of Other Nations
"It appears to me difficult," says Lenormant, "not to recognize an echo of fables popular in all Semitic countries about this chasm of Hierapolis, and the part it played in the Deluge, in the enigmatic expressions of the Koran respecting the oven (tannur) which began to bubble and disgorge water all around at the commencement of the Deluge.
The Destruction of Atlantis described in the deluge legends
ancestors of three races--Aryan, or Indo-European, Semitic, or Syro-Arabian, Chamitic, or Cushite--that is to say, on the three great civilized races of the ancient world, those which constitute the higher humanity--before the ancestors of those races had as yet separated, and in the part of Asia they together inhabited."
Babylon: Gate of the Gods
The name "Babylon" is derived from the Akkadian name "Babilim", which means "Gate of the Gods." The city was originally named Babilim by the Akkadians, a Semitic people who inhabited Mesopotamia.
The Story of Atlantis
Dealing first with the natural emigrations we find that in the second map period while still leaving powerful nations on the mother-continent, the Semites had spread both west and east—west to the lands now forming the United States, and thus accounting for the Semitic type to be found in some of the[40] Indian races, and east to the northern shores of the neighbouring continent, which combined all there then was of Europe, Africa and Asia.
When the Transaction dealing with the origin of a Root Race comes to be written, it will be seen that many of the peoples we are accustomed to call Semitic are really Aryan in blood.
The Oera Linda Book
The Arabians did not bring their ciphers from the East, because the Semitic nations used the whole alphabet in writing numbers.
The Phoenicians
This ancient Semitic people who dwelt on the Levantine shores of the Mediterranean Sea in the second and first millennium BC have only recently become better known to historians and the wider public.
The Phoenicians were Canaanites—the name given to a collection of Semitic-speaking civilizations clustered on the Mediterranean shores of the southern Levant during the second millennium BC.
Le Grand Voyage
They came from Asia, then, as now, to a large extent the home of semi-barbarians, except where the sway of Suernis had extended a civilizing influence by sending out the tribes which, in a later day, were to occupy so large a niche in history under the name of the Semitic races.
Canaanites
One early explanation connects it to the Semitic root knʿ, meaning "to be low, humble, or subjugated," possibly referring to either geographical "lowlands" in contrast to Aram ("highlands") or a province of Egypt's empire in the Levant.
The Aryan and Japhetic Colonies
Linguistic Unity: While there are linguistic connections among Indo-European languages, the claim that all Hamitic, Semitic, and Japhetic languages stem from a single original language is a broad generalization that lacks support from modern linguistics.
Chronological Nations and Tribes
Arameans (Syrians): Semitic people living in modern Syria, significant during the period of the Judges and Kings of Israel.
Samson’s Birth and Blessing
This vow was not unique to Israel but was also found in other Semitic cultures.
Beni Elohim
The term "Beni Elohim" can be traced back to ancient Semitic languages and texts, where "Elohim" often referred to powerful beings or gods rather than a single deity.
Yahweh and Dragon Stories
For example, a "b" becomes a "v," a "v" becomes a "w," a "p" becomes an "f," and a "t" becomes a "th." In Proto-Northwest Semitic, the ancestor of Hebrew, the two "h" sounds in Yahweh were pronounced in a manner consistent with the sounds associated with dragon stories globally.
Cain
Elder son of Adam and Eve, the first murderer and the first fratricide, from Hebrew Qayin, literally "created one," also "smith," from Semitic stem q-y-n "to form, to fashion." Figurative use for "murderer, fratricide" is from late 14c.
Baal
Baal is a term used to refer to various gods in ancient Semitic religions, primarily in the Near East.
Baal is derived from the Semitic root: b'l (Akkadian: bēlu[m]; Hebrew: בעל, baʿal; Arabic: بعل, ba'l) and meant "lord" or "owner."
The Hyksos Expulsion
The Hyksos, whose name is often translated as "rulers of foreign lands," were Semitic people who originated from the Levant.
Exodus, Moses and Egyptian history
Hyksos Expulsion: Some theories propose that the Exodus narrative is a cultural memory of the expulsion of the Hyksos, a Semitic people who ruled parts of Egypt before being driven out in the 16th century BCE.
The oldest son of Noah
Max Müller, in his "Lectures on the Science of Religion," identifies three major linguistic and religious centers in ancient history: Turanian, Aryan, and Semitic.
Müller posits that these linguistic groups, particularly the Aryan and Semitic, can be traced back to religious and political influences that centralized and preserved their languages and beliefs.
Müller asserts that there was a period when the ancestors of the Aryan and Semitic peoples shared a common language and religion.
The evidence suggests that the Phœnician-Hebrew family, central to Semitic tradition, originated from Atlantis.
The great god of the Semites, El, is linked to numerous names and traditions across Semitic and Aryan languages, hinting at a shared origin.
The Colonies of Atlantis
These studies indicate that the roots and structures of Quichua show significant similarities to ancient languages from both the Aryan and Semitic families.