YAHWEH: Where Did The God Of Israel Come From: The Definitive Answer!
The origin of the God of Israel, identified variously as Ihuh (Jehovah), Jah (Iah), and El Shaddai, can be rigorously analyzed through the Egyptocentric diffusionism of Gerald Massey and the Afro-Asiatic model of Martin Bernal, both of whom locate the primal source of Mediterranean religious symbols in the Nile Valley and the broader African substrate. Within this theoretical framework, the God of Israel is not viewed as a unique historical revelation but as a transition of Egyptian and African mythological types into a Semitic ethno-religious identity.
I. Genealogies of Myth and Motif: Sabean and Typhonian Foundations
According to the Egyptocentric thesis, the primary origin of the deity Jehovah-Elohim lies in the most ancient Egyptian “Sabean” mythology, specifically centered on the Great Mother and her seven elemental children. Massey asserts that Jehovah is a modified form of the Typhonian genitrix, Kefa or Khebt, the goddess of the Great Bear (seven stars), who personified the birthplace of the beginning in the celestial north. The term Elohim is identifies the “Seven Great Spirits” or Ali who were the primordial companions of this genitrix, later continued as the seven spirits of God in various traditions.
The male character of the God of Israel developed from the sonship of this genitrix, originally represented by Sut (or Seth/Sutekh), the deity of the Dog-star (Sirius). This “son of the woman” was the earliest male manifester of the deity, a “Coming One” who preceded the establishment of the divine fatherhood. Martin Bernal supports this by identifying the Israelite Yahweh as a counterpart to the Egyptian god Seth, the divinity of the wilderness and the sea. …
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