God, or Sons of God or Lord of God is the English translation for the Hebrew word Elohim or YHWH Elohim.
It is not a proper name like YHWH.
It is not the same as the proper name YHWH.
Debate continues over whether such rites were offered to Yahweh, Baal, or another figure.
Title / epithet views: “the king” as a title (sometimes linked to Yahweh or Baal in critical readings).
The gods in the Bible: Molech and Milcom among foreign gods; Elohim / Yahweh frame.
YHWH Elohim
The text reveals a bitter rivalry between Yahweh and the neighboring Elohim of Ekron.
Indeed, it is Yahweh who refers to himself and his neighbour both as elohim.
Yahweh is one such Elohim, overseeing only the family of Jacob (the Sons of Israel), while others like Chemosh ruled groups such as the Moabites.
Biglino counts at least 23 Elohim named in the Bible, portraying them as human-like beings with physical needs (e.g., Yahweh requiring alcohol and calming smoke), vices, and limitations—not omnipotent or transcendent.
The term takes on a slightly different connotation in the Latter Day Saint movement, Elohim is believed to be the name of the Heavenly Father, distinct from Jehovah (Jesus Christ).
Elohim vs Jehovah Elohim
He rules over the elements of water and earth, alongside Cain, who is seen as Yahweh ruling over the elements of fire and wind.
"And Elohim said moreover to Moses, 'Thus shall you say to the children of Israel Elohim: YHWH Elohim of your fathers, the Elohim of Abraham, the Elohim of Isaac, and the Elohim of Jacob, has sent me to you.
2 There the angel of YHWH Elohim appeared to him in flames of fire from within a bush.
4 When YHWH Elohim saw that he had gone over to look, God called to him from within the bush, “Moses!
Yahweh is the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible, named by the four consonants YHWH, the tetragrammaton (literally “four letters”).
Who is Yahweh?
YHWH is four Hebrew consonants.
The consensus modern transcription is Yahweh.
Jehovah is a later Christian hybrid: YHWH consonants read with Adonai vowels.
Related spellings on this trail include Yaho, Yahô, Yahû, YeHūàH, and YaHūàH.
In Exodus 3:14 the biblical self-disclosure is ehyeh ašer ehyeh, often rendered “I Am that I Am.” Etymology of YHWH from that verb is debated.
Worshippers of Yahweh across history include Israelites, Jews, Samaritans, and early Christians.
Scholarship often places Yahweh’s earliest memory in the southern deserts: Seir, Edom, Paran, and Teman.
Judges 5:4 and Habakkuk 3:3 sing of YHWH coming from those regions.
Egyptian attestations of a name close to YHWH among southern nomads (Astour’s yhwꜣ; Van Der Toorn on fourteenth-century Edomite-Midianite worship before Israel) sit on the same southern map.
Iron Age inscriptions such as Kuntillet Ajrud name Yahweh of Samaria and Yahweh of Teman, sometimes beside Asherah.
Yahweh moves from a more minor storm figure toward prominence.
Deuteronomy 32:8-9 and related “desert portion” readings place Israel as YHWH’s allotted people under Elyon.
Meaning: Yahweh is not introduced as lone creator of every nation in one step.
Before exclusive YHWH worship dominates, the Hebrew trail still carries El titles: El Shaddai, El Elyon, El Olam.
Yahweh sits supreme over a host of divine or semi-divine beings, then demands exclusivity more and more sharply.
“Have no other elohim before me,” says Yahweh.
The biblical text itself often shows Yahweh as a jealous war god who commands total destruction.
In the conquest and war trail, Yahweh issues total-destruction commands.
“However, in the cities of the nations Yahweh is giving you as an inheritance, do not leave alive anything that breathes.
Completely destroy them—the Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites—as Yahweh has commanded you.”
The Eden Conspiracy reads physical appearance from Psalm 18 and II Samuel 22, where King David describes “YHWH my Powerful One”:
In Psalm 18 and II Samuel 22 King David gives a detailed physical description of “YHWH my Powerful One.” He describes smoke arising from YHWH’s ap – a word which means nostrils or snout – and fire coming from YHWH’s mouth.
Isaiah 42 summarizes the general dynamic of YHWH’s leadership like this: “[The people] refused to walk in his ways nor were they obedient to his laws.
So [YHWH] poured upon them fury from his ap, which is his great power in battle, and set them all on fire until there was nothing left of them.”
I’ll show them!!” To make things clear Yahweh then slaughters the Syrians in the battle that ensues, costing the Syrian forces 100,000 infantry in a single day of battle and a further 27,000 in a post-battle accident.
YHWH’s most disturbing actions arrive when his grip on power feels threatened:
The moments of YHWH’s most disturbing actions are recognizably moments in which YHWH feels his own grip on power is waning.
For instance, it is when YHWH’s successor King Saul runs a war more mercifully than the way YHWH would have done that YHWH deposes him, afflicting him with a spiritual parasite which ultimately drives the king to insanity and suicide.
Having got rid of Saul, YHWH installs David who does well for a while, right up until II Samuel 24.
This chapter recalls a moment when YHWH realizes that David is laying the mental groundwork for questioning his battle orders.
The only factor in whether David should send his troops to war should be YHWH’s say-so.
So, for this insolence, YHWH executes seventy-thousand of his own infantry.
YHWH is sending the signal that no diminution of his authority will be tolerated.
Kab reads Yahweh-Jehovah as a composite built from Mesopotamian divine roles:
Yahweh-Jehovah was basically a fictional character made by combining aspects of Enki and Enlil, but primary Enki as he was made to be an adversary of Baal, the storm god, who is Enlil.
The Eden Conspiracy pushes further: the Laws of YHWH preserve a memory of many sky powers, not later monotheism alone:
The Book of the Laws of YHWH included undisguised narratives of elohim, Elyon the Captain, Shaddai the Destroyer, CH-CH the Dragon, Asherah, Baal, Dagon, the moloch child-sacrifices, and the whole kaleidoscopic memory of the seba hassamayim.
Visions of Atlantis states the identification with Old Testament YHWH plainly:
And in much of the cosmology of the Nag Hammadi Codices, Yahweh, (YHWH) the unpronounceable orthodox-alleged father of Christ and the God of the Old Testament, was a demonic demiurge alternatively referred to as Yaldabaoth and occasionally, Samael, playing a trick on the teeming gullible masses, using his wicked archons to enforce the deception.
I read this as a serious paleo-contact / Gnostic trail: YHWH as jailer-craftsman, not as the loving Father of the Gospels.
Yahweh was the name of the second.
Yahweh has a cat’s face.
Yahweh is righteous; Elohim is not.
Yahweh would command fire and wind Elohim would command water and earth.]
Meaning: Elohim and Yahweh appear as twin powers under the demiurge, then masked as Cain and Abel.
That strengthens the Elohim-versus-Yahweh distinction I use later.
In Jesus and the Essenes, a regression / Essene dialogue on this trail, the speaker knows the Name Yahweh but addresses God as Abba:
S: Yahweh.
When I speak to Him, I do not call Him Yahweh.
Meaning: Yahweh as “with no name” sits beside Abba as intimate Father.
Paul Wallis argues that combining the Old Testament Yahweh trail with the New Testament God of Jesus as one continuous character misleads readers.
I distinguish Elohim (plural / sky-army / creator-host trails) from Yahweh as the desert war and national god who concentrates power.
Jehovah, the self-existing one
Visions of Atlantis already tied Nag Hammadi’s Yaldabaoth reading to YHWH.
Bridgman-Metchim’s four names keep Adonai, Shaddai, Jehovah, and Elohim on the same Atlantis bookshelf.
The God of Israel named by the tetragrammaton YHWH, and the national god of Israel and Judah.
YHWH is the four-letter Name.
Jehovah is a later Christian hybrid of YHWH consonants with Adonai vowels, not the ancient pronunciation.
In Nag Hammadi cosmology, as summarized in Visions of Atlantis, YHWH is identified with the demonic demiurge Yaldabaoth (sometimes Samael).
The Secret Book of John further places Elohim and Yahweh as sons of Yaldabaoth, deceptively named Cain and Abel.
I separate Elohim host trails from Yahweh as concentrating war god.
Bridgman-Metchim’s Atlantis divine-name list (Adonai, Shaddai, Jehovah, Elohim) and the Visions of Atlantis demiurge reading are soft bridges.
the 12 Elohim: Elohim / creator-host trail versus Yahweh concentration.
The conquest begins with the battle of Jericho, followed by Ai (central Canaan), after which Joshua builds an altar to Yahweh at Mount Ebal in northern Canaan and renews the Covenant in a ceremony with elements of a divine land-grant ceremony, similar to ceremonies known from Mesopotamia.
Adam replied—"Jehovah."
There they agree to build a city and a tower with its top in the sky. Yahweh, observing their city and tower, confounds their speech so that they can no longer understand each other, and scatters them around the world.
A measuring basket or b) An ephah Ephah is mentioned again in Isaiah 60:6 as a transporter of gold and frankincense from Sheba, who shall thus bring enlargement to Judah and praise to Yahweh.
The status of the cherubim as constituting a sort-of vehicle for Yahweh is present in Ezekiel's visions, the Books of Samuel, the parallel passages in the later Books of Chronicles,[13] and passages in the early Psalms: for example, "and he rode upon a cherub and did fly: and he was seen upon the wings of the wind."
This has implications for the understanding of whether the ark of the covenant in the Temple was literally YHWH's throne or simply an indicator of YHWH's immanence.
"So YHWH scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city.
[1] Now the LORD Elohim YHWH had said unto Abram, Get thee you out of thy your country, and from thy your kindred, and from thy your father's house, unto a land that I will shew thee you:[2] And I will make of thee you a great nation, and I will bless thee you, and make thy your name great; and thou shalt be a blessing:[3] And I will bless them that bless thee you, and curse him that curseth thee you: and in thee you shall all families of the earth be blessed.[4] So Abram departed, as the LORD Elohim YHWH had spoken unto him; and Lot went with him: and Abram was seventy and five 75 years old when he departed out of Haran.[5] And Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother's son, and all their substance that they had gathered, and the souls that they had gotten in Haran; and they went forth to go into the land of Canaan; and into the land of Canaan they came.[6] And Abram passed through the land unto the place of Sichem, unto the plain of Moreh.
And the Canaanite was then in the land.[7] And the LORD Elohim appeared unto Abram, and said, Unto thy your seed will I give this land: and there builded he an altar unto the LORD Elohim YHWH , who appeared unto him.
[8] And he removed from thence there unto a mountain on the east of Bethel, and pitched his tent, having Bethel on the west, and Hai on the east: and there he builded an altar unto the LORD Elohim YHWH , and called upon the name of the LORD Elohim YHWH .
[17] And the the LORD Elohim YHWH plagued Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai Abram's wife.
And they had brick for stone, and slime bitumen had they for morter.[4] And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.[5] And the LORD Elohim YHWH came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men human builded.
Answer: YHWH
[6] And the LORD Elohim YHWH said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.
[8] So the LORD Elohim YHWH scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city.[9] Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the LORD Elohim YHWH did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the LORD Elohim YHWH scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.
On this site the Enki trail soft-links toward YHWH readings on Who is Yahweh?.
Who is Yahweh?
holds the Enki–YHWH / Elohim paleo-contact neighbor.
As the sky-people gold / genetics / Atlantis bloodline spine soft-linked to Elohim, Nephilim, Odin / Aesir, Yahweh / Enki, and Archons.
Who is Yahweh?: Enki–YHWH and Elohim paleo-contact neighbor.
Based on the writing style this part is likely a later addition:[20] And Noah began to be an husbandman, and he planted a vineyard:[21] And he drank of the wine, and was drunken; and he was uncovered within his tent.[22] And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brothers without.[23] And Shem and Japheth took a garment, and laid it upon both their shoulders, and went backward, and covered the nakedness of their father; and their faces were backward, and they saw not their father's nakedness.[24] And Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his younger son had done unto him.[25] And he said, Cursed be Canaan; a servant of servants shall he be unto his brothers.[26] And he said, Blessed be Yahweh of Elohim of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant.[27] God shall enlarge Japheth, and he shall dwell in the tents of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant.
[5] And the waters decreased continually until the 10th month: in the 10th month, on the 1st day of the month, were the tops of the mountains seen.[6] And it came to pass at the end of 40 days, that Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made:[7] And he sent forth a raven, which went forth to and fro moves around until the waters were dried up from off the earth.[8] Also he sent forth a dove from him, to see if the waters were abated from off the face of the ground;[9] But the dove found no rest for the sole of her foot, and she returned unto him into the ark, for the waters were on the face of the whole earth: then he put forth his hand, and took her, and pulled her in unto him into the ark.[10] And he stayed yet other 7 days; and again he sent forth the dove out of the ark;[11] And the dove came in to him in the evening; and, lo, in her mouth was an olive leaf pluckt off: so Noah knew that the waters were abated from off the earth.[12] And he stayed yet other 7 days; and sent forth the dove; which returned not again unto him any more.[13] And it came to pass 601 years, in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried up from off the earth: and Noah removed the covering of the ark, and looked, and, behold, the face of the ground was dry.[14] And in the 2nd month, on the 27th day of the month, was the earth dried.[15] And God spake unto Noah, saying,[16] Go forth of the ark, you, and your wife, and your sons, and your sons' wives with you.[17] Bring forth with you every living thing that is with you, of all (pure?) flesh, both of fowl, and of cattle, and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth; that they may breed abundantly in the earth, and be fruitful, and multiply upon the earth.[18] And Noah went forth, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons' wives with him:[19] Every beast, every creeping thing, and every fowl, and whatsoever creepeth upon the earth, after their kinds, went forth out of the ark.[20] And Noah builded an altar unto Yahweh Elohim; and took of every clean beast, and of every clean fowl, and offered burnt offerings on the altar.[21] And Yahwey Elohim smelled a sweet savour; and Yahwey Elohim said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake; for the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth; neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done.[22] While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.
[1] And it came to pass, when human began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them,[2] That the sons of the Elohim saw the daughters of human that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose.[3] And Yahweh (or Enki) of Elohim said, My spirit appearance shall not always strive with humans, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be limited to 120 years.[4] There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of the Elohim came in unto the daughters of human, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty human which were of old, human of renown [5] And Elohim saw that the wickedness rebellion of humans was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.[6] And it repented the LORD (Enki) that he had made humans on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.[7] And the LORD Yahweh of Elohim said, I will destroy man altered humans whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man altered humans, and altered beast, and the altered creeping thing, and the altered fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them.[8] But Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD Yahweh of Elohim.[9] These are the generations of Noah: Noah was a just man altered human and perfect in his generations, and Noah walked with God The Elohim.
29 and he called his name Noah, saying, This same shall comfort us concerning our work and toil of our hands, because of the ground which Elohim YHWH hath cursed.
1 The Humans saw the presence of a distinguishing mark on Eve when the Ishshah (Hybrid) became pregnant, and delivered the presence of the distinguishing mark on Cain and said, I have gotten a human servant from YHWH.
3 And after a time Cain (the Possessor of the Spear) brought his offspring of the territory as a tribute to YHWH.
4 And Abel (the Breath) he also brought the firstborn of the Multitude; the best part and YHWH looked at Abel's tribute.
And YHWH said Cain are grieved because their appearance fell short.
9 And YHWH told Cain how Abel their brethren intended to cohabit with each other for protection
13 And Cain said to YHWH this consequence is greater than we can bear.
then YHWH disguised the distinguishing mark on Cain, so they would not be recognized an attacked.
And Cain went out from the presence of YHWH and dwelt in the land of Nod, on the east of Eden.
And Seth the same; brought forth aliens and called their name Enos and began to proclaim the name the YHWH.
Or you go to Genesis 3—Yahweh in Genesis 3 is not necessarily a dragon; it’s just the later name that’s been put into that text.
1 Now the serpent was more devious than any sustenance of the territory which the YHWH God had made.
In Genesis 2:4, YHWH Elohiym acquired the earth (En).
See Genesis 2: YHWH Created Hybrids in Mesopotamia
Alternative translation:“And YHWH Elohim planted a protected space in Eden, from the origin, and placed there the human whom He had formed.”
Were instead of Elohim, God for English translations, changes to Yahweh (Elohim), the Lord God in English translations.
But it was after humans gave names to all animals, that the YHWH Elohim brought Humans to a deep sleep and took on of their cells.
In the second, God, now referred to as "Yahweh Elohim" (rendered as "the LORD God" in English translations), creates two individuals, Adam and Eve, as the first man and woman, and places them in the Garden of Eden.
And the YHWH Elohiym established an enclosed garden eastward in Eden, and there they put the humans.
The Humans saw the presence of a distinguishing mark on Eve when the Ishshah (Hybrid) became pregnant, and delivered the presence of the distinguishing mark on Cain and said, I have gotten a human servant from YHWH.
YHWH sees the earth corrupt and decides to destroy all flesh by water.
A friendly god warns one man (Enki / Ea / Cronus / YHWH)
Noah’s ark story ends in covenant under YHWH.