Hey Like God,
I found this entry in the wikipedia:
Names of God in Judaism - Wikipedia
I was thinking of EL. Aprently the tetragramaton is related to a Hebrew word for "to be".
Here is a quote:
The most important name of God in Judaism is the Tetragrammaton, the four-letter name of God. This name is first mentioned in the book of Genesis and is usually translated as 'the Lord'. Because Jews for quite a long period of time considered it sinful to pronounce, the correct pronunciation of this name was forgotten -- the original Hebrew texts only included consonants. Modern scholars conjecture that it was pronounced "Yahweh". The Hebrew letters are named Yod-Heh-Vav-Heh, and if your browser supports a Hebrew font it is written thus: יהוה (Note that Hebrew is written from right to left, rather than left to right as in English). In English it is written as YHVH.
In appearance, YHVH is the third person singular imperfect of the verb "to be", meaning, therefore, "God is," or "God will be," or, perhaps, "God lives," the root idea of the word being, probably, "to blow," "to breathe," and hence, "to live." With this explanation agrees the meaning of the name given in Exodus 3:14, where God is represented as speaking, and hence as using the first person "I am". The meaning would, therefore, be "He who is self-existing, self-sufficient," or, more concretely, "He who lives," the abstract conception of pure existence being foreign to Hebrew thought.
El was the wind god.
The religious history in that area is, not surprisingly, very closely knit. There is much borrowing in ideas, gods, philosphies, and theologies.
It's actually quite a fascinating subject. Infact, the article I was thinking of on religious tolerance had to do with Zoroaster and the ancient Hebrews. And how the idea of rewards for being "good" could be found in an afterlife.
It's very interesting stuff, and I thank you for opening this thread. Let us hope that more people lend comment
And your picture does seem to lack some fig leaves to the neck line.
I don't get it?