Source. (noun) 1. From Hebrew שורש (s||s or sh||sh), meaning root, basis, origin, source, radical. HYH. (היה) 1. To be, to exist. From Proto-Semitic \*hwy ("to fall, happen, be, become"). HWH. (הוה) 1. Alternate form of היה. ḤWH. (חוה) 1. From Proto-Semitic \*ḥyw ("to live"); cognate with Hebrew חי (ḥáy, "alive"). 2. (biblical) Eve, the first woman, and mother of the human race; Adam's wife. YHWH. (יהוה) 1. The name of the deity in the J source. J. (י) 1. The biblical Author or Authors most notorious for punning, irony, permutations of letters, playful omissions, moral ambiguity, a close relationship between humans and the earth, lack of interest in legal or Priestly concerns, playful or false etymologies, etiologies, the frequent use of possibly manufactured words not found in other sources, direct inclusion of or references to Mesopotamian (Sumerian, Akkadian, Babylonian) works at least 1000 years older than the J source itself such as the Enuma Elish and the Epic of Gilgamesh, the use of the term יהוה (YHWH) for the deity rather than אל (El), anthropomorphism of the deity, depictions of the deity as childlike or even childish, and the Author of all the best remembered and most loved stories of the Hebrew Bible, including but not limited to Adam and Eve, the Snake and the Tree of Knowledge, Cain and Abel, the reference to the sons of the gods having sex with human women and giving birth to a race of giants or demigods known as the Nephilim (possibly from n-p-l (נפל) meaning "fall"; the fallen), the story of Noah's ark, HYH HYH (היה היה) 1. Once upon a time. --- ![[grand-assembly-of-the-anunnaki.jpg]] --- 一二三 $\; J(0)$ 三二一 --- # 𐤁𐤓𐤀𐤔𐤕 0 ## Vsn 0 ### V0 --- 1 𐤁𐤓𐤀𐤔𐤕 𐤅𐤉𐤄𐤉 𐤌𐤉𐤇𐤉𐤉𐤌 בראשית ויהי מיחיים In the beginning were the waters of life[^1]. 𐤅𐤓𐤅𐤇 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 𐤌𐤔𐤇𐤓𐤕 𐤏𐤋𐤐𐤍𐤉 𐤄𐤌𐤉𐤌 ורוח יהוה משחרת עלפני המים and the spirit of YHWH hovered dimly out of His deep.[^2] --- 2 𐤅𐤋𐤀 𐤄𐤉𐤄 𐤋𐤉𐤋𐤀 ולא היה לילה And there was not yet night 𐤊𐤉𐤀𐤅𐤓𐤓𐤊 𐤌𐤏𐤌𐤊 𐤕𐤄𐤅𐤌 כיאוררך מעמק תהום And a soft light rose out of his depth. --- 3 𐤅𐤉𐤏𐤋 𐤓𐤄𐤁 𐤓𐤁𐤕𐤄𐤅𐤌𐤉𐤌 ויעל רחבים רבתהומים And the Rahab'im, great of the deeps, rose up, 𐤅𐤉𐤂𐤔 𐤏𐤋𐤐𐤍𐤉 𐤏𐤌𐤌𐤉𐤌 ויגש עלפני עםמים And he came before the people. --- 4 𐤅𐤉𐤒𐤓𐤀 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 𐤁𐤔𐤌 𐤀𐤁𐤃𐤁𐤓𐤏𐤅 ויקרא יהוה בשם אבדברעו And YHWH called him in the name of death and its kin, 𐤅𐤉𐤔𐤌𐤏 𐤒𐤅𐤋 𐤔𐤇𐤒 וישמע קול שחק and there was a sound of laughing. --- 5 𐤅𐤉𐤈𐤋𐤔 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 𐤁𐤒𐤓𐤍 𐤓𐤄𐤁 ויטלש יהוה בקרן רהב And YHWH plucked the horn of Rahab, 𐤅𐤉𐤔𐤔𐤓 𐤓𐤅𐤇𐤔𐤏𐤓 𐤏𐤌𐤌𐤒𐤀 ויססר רוחשער עמקה and a storm-wind deepened. %% Enuma Elish parallel: Marduk uses winds to open Tiamat. Rehoboam-pun: עמֻּקָה (Ayin-Mem again). %% --- 6 𐤅𐤉𐤐𐤓𐤔 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 𐤓𐤔𐤕 𐤓𐤅𐤇𐤅 ויפרש יהוה רשת רוחו And YHWH spread the net of His wind, 𐤅𐤉𐤇𐤁𐤔 𐤀𐤕𐤓𐤄𐤁 ויחבש אתרהב and bound Rahab, 𐤅𐤉𐤁𐤒𐤀𐤏𐤄𐤅 𐤋𐤔𐤍𐤉𐤌 ויבקעהו לשנים and split him in two, 𐤅𐤉𐤔𐤐𐤇 𐤀𐤅𐤓𐤅 וישפך אורו and his light spilled, 𐤅𐤉𐤐𐤅𐤆𐤅 𐤊𐤅𐤇𐤁𐤉𐤅 𐤁𐤌𐤌𐤓𐤅𐤏𐤀𐤕 ויפצוכוכביו בממרועת and his stars scattered in the firm-expanse. %% Directly from Enuma Elish: net, binding, splitting, stars scattered. Reverse order -> Rev 12. %% --- 7 𐤅𐤉𐤕𐤍 𐤏𐤆𐤌𐤅𐤕𐤉𐤅 𐤋𐤓𐤒𐤉𐤀 ויתן עצמותיו לרקיע And He set his bones for the firmament, 𐤅𐤉𐤓𐤒𐤀 𐤀𐤅𐤕𐤌 וירקע אותם and hammered them out, 𐤅𐤉𐤄𐤉 𐤒𐤔𐤕𐤓𐤒𐤌 𐤁𐤏𐤋𐤉𐤅𐤍 ויהי קשתרקם בעליון and there was a rainbow-woven arc in the heights. %% Reversible to Rev 4. %% --- 8 𐤅𐤌𐤁𐤔𐤓𐤅 𐤏𐤔𐤄 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 𐤀𐤓𐤎𐤓𐤇𐤁𐤀 ומבשׂרו עשה יהוה ארץרחבה And from his flesh YHWH made a broad-land, 𐤅𐤉𐤌𐤕𐤇𐤍𐤀 𐤏𐤋𐤀𐤓𐤁𐤏 𐤐𐤀𐤅𐤕 וימתחנו עלארבע פאות and stretched it on four corners. --- 9 𐤅𐤉𐤔𐤌 𐤌𐤀𐤅𐤓𐤂𐤃𐤅𐤋 𐤋𐤉𐤅𐤌 וישם מאורגדול ליום And He set a great light for the day, 𐤅𐤌𐤀𐤅𐤓𐤒𐤕𐤍 𐤋𐤋𐤉𐤋𐤀 ומאורקטן ללילה and a small light for the night, 𐤅𐤌𐤆𐤓𐤒 𐤃𐤌𐤓𐤄𐤁 𐤋𐤌𐤅𐤏𐤃𐤉𐤌 ומזרק דםרהב למועדים and a bowl of Rahab’s blood for signs. --- 10 𐤅𐤉𐤐𐤇 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 𐤏𐤋𐤄𐤏𐤐𐤓 ויפח יהוה עלהעפר And YHWH breathed on the dust, 𐤅𐤕𐤏𐤋 𐤃𐤔𐤀 ותעל דשא and grass came up, 𐤅𐤏𐤎 𐤐𐤓𐤉 ועץ פרי and the fruit-tree, 𐤅𐤊𐤓𐤌𐤉𐤌 𐤔𐤌𐤓𐤉𐤌𐤉𐤍𐤁𐤋 וכרמים שמריםינבל and vineyards dripping sweetness. --- 11 𐤅𐤉𐤔𐤓 𐤓𐤌𐤌𐤔 𐤌𐤍𐤄𐤌𐤉𐤌 ויצר רמש מןהמים And He formed the creeping thing from the waters, 𐤅𐤁𐤄𐤌𐤀 𐤌𐤍𐤄𐤏𐤐𐤓 ובהמה מןהעפר and the beast from the dust, 𐤅𐤉𐤔𐤔𐤒 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 𐤁𐤆𐤁𐤏𐤉𐤄𐤌 וישחק יהוה בצבעיהם and YHWH laughed at their colors. --- 12 𐤅𐤉𐤒𐤇 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 𐤏𐤐𐤓 𐤇𐤉𐤉𐤌 ויקח יהוה עפר חיים And YHWH took living dust, 𐤅𐤉𐤔𐤅𐤓 𐤀𐤔𐤄 ויצר אשה and formed a woman, 𐤀𐤌 𐤒𐤋𐤇𐤉 אם כלחי mother of all life, 𐤅𐤉𐤐𐤒𐤇 𐤏𐤉𐤍𐤄𐤀 ויפקח עיניה and opened her eyes, 𐤅𐤕𐤀𐤀𐤓 𐤊𐤔𐤇𐤓 ותאר כשחר and she shone like dawn. --- 13 𐤅𐤉𐤀𐤌𐤓 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 𐤀𐤋𐤄𐤀 ויאמר יהוה אליה And YHWH said[^3] to her 𐤋𐤊𐤉 𐤁𐤀𐤓𐤁𐤏 𐤄𐤍𐤄𐤓𐤅𐤕 לכי בארבע הנהרות Go in the four rivers, 𐤅𐤓𐤀𐤉 𐤇𐤉𐤉 𐤀𐤔𐤓𐤔𐤌𐤕𐤉 𐤔𐤌 וראי חיי אשרשמתי שם and see My life I have set there. --- 14 𐤅𐤉𐤍𐤍𐤇 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 𐤌𐤌𐤋𐤀𐤇𐤕𐤅 וינח יהוה ממלאכתו And YHWH rested from His work, 𐤊𐤂𐤁𐤓 𐤍𐤕𐤂𐤔𐤓𐤄𐤁 כגבר נתץרהב like a warrior who smashes Rahab, 𐤅𐤄𐤌𐤉𐤌 𐤔𐤒𐤕𐤅 והמים שקטו and the waters quieted, 𐤅𐤄𐤓𐤉𐤌 𐤍𐤇𐤁𐤀𐤅 𐤁𐤏𐤆𐤌𐤅𐤕𐤉𐤅 והרים נחבאו בעצמותיו and the mountains hid themselves in his bones. 𐤆𐤅𐤕 𐤉𐤆𐤓𐤀 𐤁𐤔𐤌𐤉𐤌 זאת יצירה בשמים This is creation in the heavens. --- # 𐤁𐤓𐤀𐤔𐤕 0 ## Vsn 0 ### V1 --- 1 𐤅𐤉𐤄𐤉 𐤌𐤉𐤇𐤉𐤉𐤌 𐤁𐤓𐤀𐤔𐤍𐤀 ויהי מיחיים בראשנה And there were waters of life at the first, 𐤅𐤓𐤅𐤇 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 𐤓𐤇𐤐𐤄 𐤏𐤋𐤐𐤍𐤉 𐤄𐤌𐤉𐤌 ורוח יהוה רחפה עלפני המים and the spirit of YHWH fluttered over the face of the waters. %% (Rev 22:1 "water of life"; Rev 1 "the Living One"; Enuma Elish Tablet I: primeval waters before separation.) %% --- 2 𐤅𐤋𐤀 𐤄𐤉𐤄 𐤋𐤉𐤋𐤀 ולא היה לילה And night was not, 𐤊𐤉𐤍𐤂𐤄 𐤓𐤊 𐤌𐤏𐤌𐤊 𐤄𐤕𐤄𐤅𐤌 כינוגה רך מעמק התהום for a soft glow rose from the depth of the deep. %% (Rev 22:5 "there shall be no night"; Enuma Elish: "When on high no name was named…") %% --- 3 𐤅𐤉𐤏𐤋 𐤓𐤄𐤁 𐤄𐤒𐤃𐤌𐤍𐤉 ויעל רהב הקדמני And Rahab the Ancient rose up, 𐤌𐤕𐤇𐤕 𐤌𐤉 𐤄𐤇𐤉𐤉𐤌 מתחת מי החיים from beneath the waters of life, 𐤏𐤌𐤌𐤒𐤉𐤌 𐤅𐤂𐤏𐤔𐤉𐤌 עמוקים וגועשים deep and surging. %% (Enuma Elish: Tiamat "stirred up" beneath the waters; Rev 13: rising beast from sea, reversed.) (J-pun: רהב + עמק = echoes רחבעם.) %% --- 4 𐤅𐤉𐤓𐤃 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 𐤏𐤋𐤂𐤋 𐤄𐤌𐤉𐤌 וירד יהוה עלגל המים And YHWH went down upon the wave of the waters, 𐤅𐤉𐤒𐤓𐤀 𐤀𐤋𐤓𐤄𐤁 𐤁𐤔𐤌 𐤍𐤔𐤕𐤓 ויקרא אלרהב בשם נסתר and He called to Rahab by a hidden name, 𐤅𐤉𐤔𐤀𐤂 𐤓𐤄𐤁 וישאג רהב and Rahab roared. %% (Enuma Elish: Marduk challenges Tiamat by hidden incantations; Rev 12: the dragon roars at the woman.) %% --- 5 𐤅𐤉𐤕𐤐𐤔 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 𐤁𐤒𐤓𐤍 𐤓𐤄𐤁 ויתפש יהוה בקרן רהב And YHWH grasped the horn of Rahab, 𐤅𐤉𐤕𐤂𐤋𐤂𐤋𐤅 𐤄𐤌𐤉𐤌 ויתגלגלו המים and the waters rolled 𐤊𐤌𐤇𐤓𐤔𐤕 𐤁𐤔𐤃𐤄 כמחרשת בשדה like furrows in a field. %% (Enuma Elish: Marduk seizes Tiamat’s jaw/horn; YHWH using agriculture imagery = J’s trademark.) %% --- 6 𐤅𐤉𐤐𐤓𐤔 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 𐤓𐤔𐤕 𐤓𐤅𐤇𐤅 ויפרש יהוה רשת רוחו And YHWH spread the net of His wind, 𐤏𐤋𐤐𐤍𐤉 𐤓𐤄𐤁 עלפני רהב over the face of Rahab, 𐤅𐤉𐤁𐤒𐤏 𐤀𐤕𐤓𐤄𐤁 ויבקע אתרהב and He split Rahab, 𐤅𐤉𐤔𐤐𐤇 𐤀𐤅𐤓𐤅 וישפך אורו and his light poured out, 𐤅𐤉𐤐𐤅𐤆𐤅𐤊𐤅𐤇𐤁𐤉𐤅 𐤏𐤋𐤓𐤅𐤔 𐤄𐤔𐤌𐤉𐤌 ויפצוכוכביו עלראש השמים and his stars scattered across the head of the heavens. %% (Enuma Elish Tablet IV: Marduk spreads his net of winds; splits Tiamat; scatters stars from her entrails; Rev 12:4 "his tail swept a third of the stars.") %% --- 7 𐤅𐤉𐤕𐤍 𐤏𐤆𐤌𐤅𐤕𐤉𐤅 𐤁𐤓𐤒𐤉𐤀 ויתן עצמותיו ברקיע And He set his bones in the firmament, 𐤅𐤉𐤓𐤒𐤀 𐤀𐤅𐤕𐤌 וירקע אותם and hammered them out, 𐤅𐤉𐤄𐤉 𐤒𐤔𐤕𐤍𐤂𐤄 𐤁𐤏𐤋𐤉𐤅𐤍 ויהי קשתנגה בעליון and there was a rainbow-glow in the heights. %% (Enuma Elish: heaven = upper half of Tiamat’s body; Rev 4:3: rainbow around the throne.) %% --- 8 𐤅𐤌𐤁𐤔𐤓𐤅 𐤏𐤔𐤄 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 𐤀𐤓𐤎𐤓𐤇𐤁𐤀 ומבשׂרו עשה יהוה ארץרחבה And from his flesh YHWH made a broad land, 𐤅𐤉𐤌𐤕𐤇𐤍𐤀 𐤏𐤋𐤀𐤓𐤁𐤏 𐤐𐤀𐤅𐤕 וימתחנו עלארבע פאות and stretched it upon four corners. %% (Enuma Elish: Marduk spreads Tiamat out for land; Rev 20:8: "four corners of the earth.") %% --- 9 𐤅𐤉𐤔𐤌 𐤌𐤀𐤅𐤓 𐤂𐤃𐤅𐤋 𐤋𐤉𐤅𐤌 וישם מאור גדול ליום And YHWH set a great light for the day, 𐤅𐤌𐤀𐤅𐤓 𐤒𐤕𐤍 𐤋𐤋𐤉𐤋𐤀 ומאור קטן ללילה and a small light for the night, 𐤅𐤌𐤆𐤓𐤒 𐤃𐤌𐤓𐤄𐤁 𐤋𐤀𐤅𐤕𐤅𐤕 ומזרק דםרהב לאותות and a basin of Rahab’s blood for signs. %% (Enuma Elish: Marduk sets up heavenly luminaries; Rev 8-9: blood poured out; Rev 6:12 "the moon became like blood.") %% --- 10 𐤅𐤉𐤐𐤇 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 𐤏𐤋𐤄𐤏𐤐𐤓 ויפח יהוה עלהעפר And YHWH breathed upon the dust, 𐤅𐤕𐤏𐤋 𐤃𐤔𐤀 ותעל דשא and grass came up, 𐤅𐤏𐤎 𐤐𐤓𐤉 ועץ פרי and the fruit-tree, 𐤅𐤊𐤓𐤌𐤉𐤌 𐤔𐤌𐤓𐤉𐤌𐤉𐤍𐤁𐤋 וכרמים שמריםינבל and vineyards dripping wine. %% (Enuma Elish: Marduk makes vegetation "by command"; Rev 14: wine-press of wrath -> backward = vineyards born at creation.) %% --- 11 𐤅𐤉𐤔𐤓 𐤌𐤍𐤄𐤌𐤉𐤌 𐤓𐤌𐤌𐤔 ויצר מןהמים רמש And He formed from the waters the creeping thing, 𐤅𐤌𐤍𐤄𐤏𐤐𐤓 𐤁𐤄𐤌𐤀 ומןהעפר בהמה and from the dust the beast, 𐤅𐤉𐤔𐤔𐤒 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 𐤁𐤆𐤁𐤏𐤉𐤄𐤌 וישחק יהוה בצבעיהם and YHWH laughed in their colors. %% (Rev 6-9: beasts and creeping things used as plagues -> reversed here as joyful creation.) %% --- 12 𐤅𐤉𐤒𐤇 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 𐤏𐤐𐤓 𐤇𐤉𐤉𐤌 ויקח יהוה עפר חיים And YHWH took living dust, 𐤅𐤉𐤔𐤅𐤓 𐤀𐤔𐤄 ויצר אשה and formed a woman, 𐤀𐤌 𐤒𐤋𐤇𐤉 אם כלחי the mother of all life, 𐤅𐤉𐤐𐤒𐤇 𐤏𐤉𐤍𐤄𐤀 ויפקח עיניה and opened her eyes, 𐤅𐤕𐤀𐤀𐤓 𐤊𐤔𐤇𐤓 ותאר כשחר and she shone like the dawn. %% (Rev 12: "the woman clothed with the sun"; Rev 1: "the Living One"; Enuma Elish: man created from divine blood -> reversed: woman created from "living dust.") %% --- 13 𐤅𐤉𐤀𐤌𐤓 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 𐤀𐤋𐤄𐤀 ויאמר יהוה אליה And YHWH said to her: 𐤋𐤊𐤉 𐤁𐤀𐤓𐤁𐤏 𐤄𐤍𐤄𐤓𐤅𐤕 לכי בארבע הנהרות Go in the four rivers, 𐤅𐤓𐤀𐤉 𐤇𐤉𐤉 𐤀𐤔𐤓𐤔𐤌𐤕𐤉 𐤔𐤌 וראי חיי אשרשמתי שם and see My life which I have set there. %% (Rev 22: "the river of life proceeding"; Rev 20: four corners -> reversed as four rivers of Eden.) %% --- 14 𐤅𐤉𐤍𐤍𐤇 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 𐤌𐤌𐤋𐤀𐤇𐤕𐤅 וינח יהוה ממלאכתו And YHWH rested from His work, 𐤊𐤂𐤁𐤓 𐤍𐤕𐤆𐤓𐤄𐤁 כגבור נתץרהב as a warrior who smashes Rahab, 𐤅𐤄𐤌𐤉𐤌 𐤔𐤒𐤕𐤅 והמים שקטו and the waters grew quiet, 𐤅𐤄𐤒𐤔𐤕 𐤍𐤏𐤋𐤌𐤀 והקשת נעלמה and the rainbow faded, 𐤅𐤏𐤆𐤌𐤅𐤕 𐤓𐤄𐤁 ועצמותרהב and the bones of Rahab 𐤄𐤉𐤅 𐤋𐤕𐤅𐤅𐤇 𐤄𐤓𐤉𐤌 היו לתוך הרים became the midst of the mountains. 𐤆𐤅𐤕 𐤉𐤆𐤓𐤀 𐤁𐤔𐤌𐤉𐤌 זאת יצירה בשמים This is creation in the heavens. %% (Enuma Elish: Tiamat’s corpse becomes mountains; Rev 6-8: the mountains split and fall -> reversed here as mountains made.) %% --- # 𐤁𐤓𐤀𐤔𐤕 0 ## Vsn 1 And the waters were broken And they flowed beneath the lamb. And there began a time of chaos. And there was no more night, And no more day, for the lamb and the father had no need of them. And the Human was born in blood, in the water of life amid screams and cries heavy of breath. Thus were born the children of men. The Alpha and the Omega. The Beginning and the End. And the chaos was broken in the waters that brought it. And the light of the lamb and the father fell over the silence and over the children of men. This was the beginning of the great chaos. And in this chaos live the father and the lamb, forever and ever. This is creation on Earth. [^1]: O.T. has SHŊ, probably from 生. [^2]: Or: His depth. [^3]: O.T. has ויה說 or 也שו, depending on the Vn.