In all Christian translations, textbooks and catechisms, the Hebrew divine name "El Shaddai" is translated as God Almighty or Almighty. Is this so, and isn't it time to open dictionaries to check the correctness of the generally accepted interpretation?
If we take the Septuagint, otherwise called the translation of the LXX interpreters (made under Ptolemy II Philadelphus), and look at what word this name was translated into Greek, then we will immediately find that the ancient Hebrew hakams gave it a different meaning. They interpreted him as “Blessed” (εὐλογήσαι), “Satisfied” (εὐαρέστει) and a number of other epithets. However, in Greek, the exact equivalent of the name "Almighty" can only be the word "Pantokrator" (παντα - everything; κρατος - power, strength, power)! But in the Septuagint El Shaddai is never translated by the word Pantokrator. Why did it happen so?
In fact, the word "Shaddai" has a completely different etymology. "Shaddai" (Šaddy) in ancient Hebrew comes from the verb šadad, which means to rob, rape, appropriate, steal, devastate, exterminate, and from šod - violence, robbery, death attack. From the same root šed is produced - in Hebrew, demon, devil, evil. However, “shed” and “Shaddai” are not Jewish names, they are also borrowed, and etymologically go back, apparently, to the name of Seth or Seth - the Egyptian god of chaos, death, disorder, desert and all evil. This deity has its analogues in other Western Asian cultures, as will become clear from the following.
Obviously, the translators of the Bible into Greek hired by the Jerusalem Sanhedrin deliberately hid the real meaning of the name El Shaddai in order to keep the true Egyptian origin of his deity secret from the enlightened Hellenistic world and the Greek rulers of their day, who were not supposed to guess about this secret.
Seth in Egypt and his exile in Asia
Egyptian mythology tells that for the murder of his brother Osiris Set was expelled from Egypt to Asia and became the patron saint of nomadic Semitic tribes, the worst enemies of Egypt. It was he who was worshiped by all the Near Asian nomads and Amorites, who roamed in Mesopotamia and Palestine and took the name "Shetids", after the name of this deity ("sons of Sheth" in Num. 24:17).
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Set is an analogue of Satan both mythologically and linguistically, having essentially the same root and function. In Egypt, he was depicted as an anthropomorphic creature with the head of an unknown animal, similar to a donkey, sometimes in the form of a crocodile, hippopotamus or black pig (apparently from here in the Middle Ages it was customary to depict the Devil with a pig's snout).
He is also known as the serpent god, who later merged with the serpent Apop (although in other, earlier images, Set Apop kills). In Greek mythology, Set was united with Typhon, a serpent with dragon heads, and was considered the son of Gaia and Tartarus, that is, the Earth and the Underworld.
Ra, in the guise of a red cat, kills the snake-Apop.
But Set did not immediately become the prototype of Satan. In the early dynastic era, he bore the functions of a solar, that is, a bright deity. His cult was widespread as early as the 4th millennium BC. e. both in Lower and Upper Egypt, and at that time he was considered "the god of the winds."
Then the power was divided between the gods, and Horus became the patron saint of Upper, and Set - of Lower Egypt. After the murder of his brother Osiris, his son Horus the Younger begins to avenge his father and finally deprives Seth of power, overthrows Lower Egypt from the throne and emasculates him. Thus Horus becomes the sole ruler of all of Egypt. Religious scholars believe that this myth records the historical process of the unification of Egypt in the era of the Old Kingdom in the 3rd millennium BC. e.
Both of these great rivals belonged to the generation of deities that disrupted the golden age created by Ra-Atum. Thus, in this myth we see the prototype of the fall of the luminous Angel Lucifer or Dennitsa and his transformation into a dark (night) demon of evil - a tradition that later migrated to Judeo-Christianity and whose source is seen in the Bible. Thus, in Is. 14: 12-13 Dennitsa wants to raise his throne "to the edge of the north", to put "above the stars." Seth was also associated with the northern constellation Ursa Major, where he was imprisoned forever and received the title of "lord of the northern sky."
The war between Horus and Set continued after Set's flight from Egypt. It was conducted with varying degrees of success. Finally, Seth took revenge when his cult was revived in Lower Egypt after it was captured by the Hyksos in the mid-17th century. BC e.
Set - god of Abraham
By origin, Abraham was an Amorite essence and accordingly worshiped El Shaddai (Gen. 17: 1), the Semitic counterpart of Set, as all the Shetids did. According to the Bible, the Amorites, however, were "Hamites" descended from the cursed seed of Canaan. This confusion arose, probably due to the fact that the oldest cradle of the Semitic peoples was located in West Africa (the possessions of Set), from where they then began to move to Arabia and Bl. East (biblical genealogies confirm this).
The deity of Abraham commands him to do what the Semitic-Hamitic tribes have always done - to wander, that is, to be a "wanderer and a stranger on earth" (to trade in raids, sorties, robberies, violence, speculation, parasitism, human trafficking and abuse of slaves, destruction of civilizations, cultivation of hatred of the white race). This deity, according to the Torah's narrative, works miracles, but does not show any signs of omnipotence, omniscience, immutability, does not teach the moral law, does not promise eternal imperishable blessings, but promises to the descendants of Abraham only earthly, promising to breed them "like the stars of heaven", approves of the predatory and predatory war against the peoples of Palestine, since it was obviously unthinkable in any other way to "give" this land to the Jews. This god is absolutely unspiritualhe instills exclusively utilitarian goals and talks only about "carnal".
Amorite-essences identified El Shaddai with the Sumerian Sin, they knew this deity under the name El Amurru or "El Amorite". Mount Sinai got its name from Sina, the lunar deity of the Sumerians, and, as you know, the Semites actively adopted the Mesopotamian gods. This is what the deity of the Semitic race was like and where its origins come from. In the story of Abraham, he clearly manifests his typical properties characteristic of the occupations and morality of this race. The covenant with Abraham is built entirely on the foundation of purely earthly atheistic-materialistic priorities, and all of classical Judaism rests on the same foundation.
Amorite essences and the cult of Seth
As already mentioned, the Amorites also bore the name of the Shetids, otherwise the essences. Therefore, in the scientific literature it is customary to call them “amor-essences”.
Who are these essences and what does this ethnonym mean?
The word sutiu served in Mesopotamia as a common name for West Semitic shepherd tribes, which is a transmission of the Amorite setiu and means the descendants of a certain Shutu or Sutu. The Amorean Jester is identical with the biblical Shet (in the synod. Translation of Seth) (Gen. 4:25, 5: 3). It is to Shet, according to the genealogies of the book of Genesis, that all antediluvian and post-Flood "blessed" humanity ascends. Taking into account the fact that the alleged descendants of the biblical Shem, the eldest son of Noah, are in reality "Shetids", the orientalist IM Dyakonov suggested that Shem is none other than Shet, identical to the Amorite Jester. That is why in Num. 24:17 rival Semitic tribes are called the "sons of Seth." They were hostile to the Jews invading Palestine, but we remember that this does not in the least prove their racial divergence. The descendants of the clan of Abraham considered themselves "chosen" among all the peoples of the Earth, but all the Near Asian Semites were no exception in this regard. Their arrogance was expressed in the statement that only the Semites are blessed (Gen. 9: 18-27) [2], while other races remained on the periphery of "God's will" or were cursed.
Shet was revered by the Semitic tribes as the supreme deity under the name Sutekh (Suta or Seth). In Babylonian cuneiform, his name appears as Shutah. Considering that the consonants "d" / "t" are transitive in linguistic transmission, it is also necessary to produce the word "shed" (bes) and Arabic from here. "Shaitan" (Hebrew equivalent - Shetn, Satan). Accordingly, the meaning of the name El Shaddai - the god whom Abraham revered - Satan.
In Egypt captured by the Hyksos (namely, during their reign, the Jews were in "Egyptian slavery"), priority among the local Egyptian gods was given to Sutekh, whose cult becomes state-centered in the capital Avaris. Sutekh was identified with the local Egyptian god Seth (Set), as well as with the Canaanite Baal. According to Plutarch, in Avaris, the Hyksos bowed to Typhon, whom the ancient Greek biographer considers Seth, the patron saint of the adepts of Moses. Plutarch says that it was Typhon who brought the Israelites out of Egypt. He also reports that after fleeing Egypt, Seth became the "father" of Jerusalem and Judah. Since the Jewish historiographer Josephus Flavius, in agreement with Manetho, saw the ancestors of the Jews in the Hyksos, this explains why in Greece and Egypt the donkey was considered a symbol of the Jewish god, identical to Seth (whose astral sign was the planet Saturn). However, the donkey is just a symbol of God, who lost his solar functions, which passed to Horus. Donkeys are solar animals used in Set's rituals when he was a solar deity. That is why Jesus made his triumphal entry into Jerusalem on horseback as a sign that the prerogatives of the solar deity passed to him through Horus, who inherited Seth.
Mythological and Biblical Parallels of Set
As already mentioned, in Egyptian mythology, Set is a deity with negative functions. This is an evil god. He is the main opponent of the sun god Horus, as in Ugarit Mot opposes Baal, among the Greeks Typhon - Zeus, and in Zoroastrianism Angro Mainyu is a rival of Ahura Mazda (according to Egyptian inscriptions, he is also Horus Mezdau).
In Egyptian mythology, the triumph of Horus over Seth symbolizes the victory over the Afrasian savages, the expulsion of the Jews from Egypt, the superiority of the Egyptians over the Semites. The motive of antagonism between civilization and anti-civilization can be seen here very clearly, as well as in other cultures of Western Asia and the Mediterranean.
Let's go back to the Christian tradition. In Gnostic texts, Satan appears as the angel of Samael (Shmuel, Shem-El). Here, too, the identity of word formation is revealed: Sim (Shem) and Sim-El (Samael), on the one hand, and the Egyptian name of the Hyksos deity Set with the addition of -an - Set-an (“god Set” or Satan, Hebrew Shetn, Arabic. Shaitan) or Satn, Saturn, on the other hand. As previously established, the name of the biblical patriarch, the forefather of the Semites (Shetids), is not Shem (Shem), but Shet, or, as translated in the Septuagint, Seth, from whom Noah himself descended, the father of three main human races according to the book of Genesis. Thus, Noah is a "Semite" in an ascending genealogy and at the same time their father in a descending one.
The Setian layer in the Bible is seen in the myth of Jacob's thigh injury. In ancient images, Saturn is shown as a lame old man leaning on a staff. According to the "Egyptian Book of the Dead", the god Thoth fought with Seth, who had stolen the eye of Horus (the symbol of the Sun), and, defeating Seth, Thoth injured his thigh, which made Seth limp. According to the biblical legend, Jacob (the deified ancestor of the Jews, known among the Semitic tribes under the name Jacob El) fought with a certain “husband” at night, but he injured Jacob's thigh, which is essentially a euphemism for castration. Probably, the very ritual of circumcision among the Semites was introduced as a memory of the emasculation of their ancestral god Set (El Shaddai), who later merged with Yahweh, who already had Canaanite origins.
Thus, Seth-Sutekh is none other than the Amorite Jester - the deified ancestor-eponym of the Amorite-essences, and he is the biblical Shem (distortion from the same Seth). It is now clear why Jesus called the Jews “children of the Devil” (John 8:44). The father of all Jews was Seth, who was worshiped by them under the name El Shaddai, the deified biblical patriarch Shem (Seth), he is also Satan, who has numerous prototypes in the myths and legends of the peoples of the world as an opponent of the Sun God.
© L. L. Gifes (Breanainn)