Searching for the Origin of the Volcano/Metallurgical Bible God Yahweh

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Harrat Ash Shaam: 2670 BCE Eruption: Link, Link

“Mount Ararat destroyed and buried at least one Kura–Araxes culture settlement and caused numerous fatalities in 2500–2400 BCE.” ref

Kura–Araxes culture: Link, Link

Minoan eruption: Link

Leviathan (Sea Monster/Sea Volcano): Link, Link

Kenites: Link, Link

Kenite hypothesis of the origin of Yahweh: Link

Yahweh Bible God: Link

Yahwism (ancient Israelite religion): Link

YHWH/Yahweh: Kenite God of Metallurgy and volcanic eruption: Link

“The Bronze Age is characterised by the widespread use of bronze, though the introduction and development of bronze technology were not universally synchronous. Bronze was independently discovered in the Maykop culture of the North Caucasus as early as the mid-4th millennium BCE or 5,500 years ago, which makes them the producers of the oldest-known bronze. The Bronze Age was a time of extensive use of metals and the development of trade networks. West Asia and the Near East were the first regions to enter the Bronze Age, beginning with the rise of the Mesopotamian civilization of Sumer in the mid-4th millennium BCE. Cultures in the ancient Near East practised intensive year-round agriculture; developed writing systems; invented the potter’s wheel, created centralised governments (usually in the form of hereditary monarchies), formulated written law codes, developed city-states, nation-states and empires; embarked on advanced architectural projects; and introduced social stratification, economic and civil administration, slavery, and practised organised warfare, medicine, and religion. Societies in the region laid the foundations for astronomy, mathematics, and astrology. The Bronze Age in the Near East can be divided into Early, Middle and Late periods. The dates and phases below apply solely to the Near East, not universally. However, some archaeologists propose a “high chronology”, which extends periods such as the Intermediate Bronze Age by 300 to 500–600 years, based on material analysis of the southern Levant in cities such as Hazor, Jericho, and Beit She’an. Early Bronze Age: 3300–2100 BCE; Middle Bronze Age: 2100–1550 BCE; Late Bronze Age: 1550–1200 BCE. The Israelites were an ancient Semitic-speaking people of the Ancient Near East who inhabited part of Canaan during the tribal and monarchic periods (15th–6th centuries BCE or 3,500 to 2,600 years ago), and lived in the region in smaller numbers after the fall of the monarchy. The name “Israel” first appears c. 1209 BCE, at the end of the Late Bronze Age and the very beginning of the Iron Age, on the Merneptah Stele raised by the Egyptian pharaoh Merneptah.” ref

Beyond the Volcano, Yahwah is related to Wine?

AI Overview: Yahweh and Dionysus, despite belonging to different religious traditions, share striking similarities. Both deities are associated with ecstatic worship, subversive influence against established religious norms, and a connection to both life and death. Additionally, some scholars propose a historical link, suggesting that Dionysus may have been an Aegean counterpart to Yahweh during the Bronze Age. Some scholars propose that during the Bronze Age, Dionysus was a deity in the Aegean region who shared characteristics with Yahweh, the Canaanite god of metallurgy. Other scholars suggest that the identification of Yahweh with Dionysus could be an example of interpretatio graeca, where Greek deities were identified with foreign gods, possibly due to the influence of Near Eastern religions during the “orientalizing period”. Some scholars propose that both deities were associated with similar symbols, actions, and theophanies (divine appearances), further supporting the idea of a connection. Some research suggests that the parallels between Yahweh and Dionysus challenge traditional, monotheistic interpretations of the Old Testament, suggesting a more complex and possibly syncretic history of Yahweh’s worship. Some theories propose that the similarities between Dionysus and Jesus, particularly in the Gospel of John, may have facilitated the spread of Christianity among Greek-speaking populations.

“The history of wine dates back at least 8,000 years, not that far from the later Kura–Araxes culture was an archaeological culture that existed from about 6,000 to 4,000 years ago. Evidence suggests that some of the earliest domestication of Vitis vinifera occurred in the area of the modern countries Georgia and Armenia. The oldest-known winery was discovered in the “Areni-1” cave in Vayots Dzor, Armenia. Dated to c. 4100 BCE 6,100 years ago, the site contained a wine press, fermentation vats, jars, and cups.” ref, ref

“Domesticated grapes were abundant in the Near East from the beginning of the early Bronze Age, starting in 3200 BCE. There is increasingly abundant evidence for winemaking in Sumer and Egypt in the 3rd millennium BCE. The spread of wine culture around the Mediterranean was probably due to the influence of the Phoenicians (from c. 1000 BCE or 3,000 years ago) and Greeks (from c. 600 BCE or 2,600 years ago). The Phoenicians exported the wines of Byblos, which were known for their quality into Roman times. Industrialized production of wine in ancient Greece spread across the Italian peninsula and to southern Gaul. The altered consciousness produced by wine has been considered religious since its origin. The ancient Greeks worshiped Dionysus or Bacchus, and the Ancient Romans carried on his cult. Consumption of ritual wine, probably a certain type of sweet wine originally, was part of Jewish practice since Biblical times and, as part of the eucharist commemorating Jesus‘s Last Supper, became even more essential to the Christian Church.” ref

“The Biblical Book of Genesis first mentions the production of wine by Noah following the Great Flood. Greek mythology placed the childhood of Dionysus and his discovery of viticulture at Mount Nysa but had him teach the practice to the peoples of central Anatolia. Because of this, he was rewarded to become a god of wine. In ancient times, the Levant region has played a vital role in the domain of winemaking. Archaeological findings, including charred grape seeds and occasionally intact berries or raisins, have been unearthed in numerous prehistoric and historic sites across Southwest Asia. Having deep historical roots dating back to at least the Bronze Age, winemaking in the Levant retained its importance as a significant regional industry until the decline of Byzantine rule in the 7th century CE. This prolonged history of winemaking significantly enriched the cultural and economic tapestry of ancient societies in the region, giving rise to numerous legends and beliefs intertwined with its consumption in the Mediterranean and Near East.” ref

“Wine held a significant and favored role within ancient Israelite cuisine, serving not only as a dietary staple but also as a crucial element of Israelite cultural and religious practices. In ancient Israel, wine found its place in both everyday use and ceremonial rituals such as sacrificial libations. These traditions became an integral part of Jewish customs and celebrations, upholding the enduring importance of wine within Judaism to this very day. The abundancy of archeological remnants of facilities dedicated to the production of wine (at ancient Gibeon, for example), coupled with detailed depictions of vineyard establishment and grape varieties within the Hebrew Bible, underscore the prominence of wine as the primary alcoholic choice for the ancient Israelites; The word wine appears 142 times in the Bible. Within the Hebrew language, a multitude of terms emerged relating to vines and the various stages of winemaking. Much of modern wine culture derives from the practices of the ancient Greeks. The vine preceded both the Minoan and Mycenaean cultures.” ref

“Biblical descriptions reveal that vineyards in ancient Israel were planted either as dedicated plots or interspersed with other fruit trees, located near homes or in more remote agricultural areas. Vines could be allowed to grow along the ground or trained on trellises or poles. The vines were not harvested until their fourth year, in keeping with Levitical law. Harvest typically fell between the grain harvest and the sowing season; Pruning occurred in the fall, and the discarded branches were often used as fuel. Winemaking began with treading grapes by foot in stone winepresses, an act often associated with joy. The juice was then transferred to large clay jars and stored in cool areas such as cellars or ground-floor storage rooms. Winemaking also included the incorporation of spices, honey, herbs, and other ingredients. Jars containing wine were sealed with clay, but a small hole was left open to release gases produced during fermentation. Jewish winemaking evolved during the Hellenistic period, with dried grapes producing sweeter, higher alcohol content wine that required dilution with water for consumption.” ref

Wine used in Ritual Ceremonies 5000 Years Ago in Georgia, the Cradle of Viticulture

“Wine was used in ritual ceremonies 5000 years ago in Georgia, the cradle of viticulture. Traces of wine inside an animal-shaped ceramic vessel (circa 3,000 BCE), probably used for cultic activities, along with discovered vine pollen in a zoomorphic vessel used in ritual ceremonies by the Kura-Araxes population. The vessel has an animal-shaped body with three small feet and a pouring hole on the back. The head is missing. It was found, together with a second similar vessel and a Kura-Araxes jar, on the burnt floor of a large rectangular area with rounded corners, arguably a sort of shrine used for cultic activities. Results confirm that the finds date to circa 3000-2900 BCE or 5,000 to 4,900 years ago. Both zoomorphic vessels are an unicum in the region. The discovery suggests that wine was offered to deities or consumed during ceremonies, highlighting its importance in the Kura-Araxes culture, and shows wine’s strategic role in the Kura-Araxes culture for ritual libations. According to Professor Rova, this is a significant discovery, «because the context of discovery suggests that wine was drawn from the jar and offered to the gods or commonly consumed by the participants to the ceremony. The Kura-Araxes culture (second half of the fourth and first half of the third millennium BCE) is the only prehistoric culture of the Southern Caucasus which spread over large areas of the Near East, reaching Iran and the Syro- Palestinian region.” ref

J1 Haplogroup Men

“The first J1 men lived in the Late Upper Paleolithic, shortly before the end of the last Ice Age. The oldest identified J1 sample to date comes from Satsurblia cave (c. 13200 BCE) in Georgia, placing the origins of haplogroup J1 in all likelihood in the region around the Caucasus, Zagros, Taurus, and eastern Anatolia during the Upper Paleolithic. Like many other successful lineages from the Middle East, J1 is thought to have undergone a major population expansion during the Neolithic period. The greatest genetic diversity of J1 haplotypes was found in eastern Anatolia, near Lake Van in central Kurdistan. Eastern Anatolia and the Zagros mountains are the region where goats and sheep were first domesticated, some 11,000 years ago. Chiaroni et al. estimated that J1-P58 started expanding 9,000 to 10,000 years ago as pastoralists from the Fertile Crescent. Although they did not analyze the other branches, it is likely that all surviving J1a1b (L136) lineages share the same origin as goat and sheep herders from the Taurus and Zagros mountains. The mountainous terrain of the Caucasus, Anatolia and modern Iran, which wasn’t suitable for early cereal farming, was an ideal ground for goat and sheep herding and catalyzed the propagation of J1 pastoralists. Within the Middle East, SNP analysis shows that the J1-L136 branch migrated south from eastern Anatolia and split in four directions: Anatolia/Europe (PF7263), the Levant, the southern Zagros (and southern Mesopotamia ?), and the mountainous south-western corner of the Arabian peninsula (mostly in Yemen), bypassing the Arabian Desert.” ref

“A Bayesian phylogenetic analysis suggests that Semitic languages originated in the Levant around 3,750 BCE, during the Early Bronze Age. It evolved into three groups: East Semitic (an extinct branch that comprised Akkadian), Central Semitic (which gave rise to Aramaic, Ugaritic, Phoenician, Hebrew, and Arabic), and South Semitic (South Arabian and Ethiopian). J1-P58, the Central Semitic branch of J1, appears to have expanded from the southern Levant (Israel, Palestine, Jordan) across the Arabian peninsula during the Bronze Age, from approximately 3,500 to 2,500 BCE. Camels were domesticated in Somalia and southern Arabia c. 3,000 BCE, but did not become widely used in the southern Levant before approximately 1,100 BCE. Camels played an important role in the further diffusion of J1-P58 lineages, notably with the Bedouins in the desert parts of the Middle East and North Africa. Bedouins now make up a substantial percentage of the population of Sudan (33%), Libya (15%), the United Arab Emirates (8%), and Saudi Arabia (5%).” ref

“The two most common Jewish subclades of J1 downstream of P58 are Z18297 and ZS227. The latter includes the Cohanim haplotype. Most of the other branches under P58 could be described as Semitic, although only FGC12 seems to be genuinely linked to the medieval Arabic expansion from Saudi Arabia. Based on very limited data, the main Lebanese subclades of J1 appear to be J1-Z640 and J1-YSC76. Both subclades have also been found in Sicily, Andalusia and Portugal, which suggests that they were already found among the Phoenicians. However, since the Arabs conquered the same regions as those colonised by the Phoenicians, it is too early to reach such a conclusion. Subclades found in Sardinia are very useful as practically all J1-P58 on the island were supposedly brought by the Phoenicians. They include Z18297 (could also be Jewish), Z2324>YP4763, YSC76>FGC15940>ZS1690 and YSC76>FGC8223>FGC8216>FGC8196.” ref

“Surprisingly, even in the Caucasus and in Anatolia, the region where this haplogroup is thought to have originated, there are wide discrepancies between regions. For example, the Kubachi and Dargins from Dagestan in the Northeast Caucasus have over 80% of J1 lineages, while in their Ingush neighbours, 200 km to the north, it barely reaches 3%. East Anatolia around Lake Van sees over 30% of J1, whereas south-west Anatolia has only 2%. Even within Kurdistan frequencies vary greatly. The small sample sizes for each region is surely to blame. In Arabic countries, J1 climaxes among the Marsh Arabs of South Iraq (81%), the Sudanese Arabs (73%), the Yemeni (72%), the Bedouins (63%), the Qatari (58%), the Saudi (40%), the Omani (38%) and the Palestinian Arabs (38%). High percentages are also observed in the United Arab Emirates (35%), coastal Algeria (35%), Jordan (31%), Syria (30%), Tunisia (30%), Egypt (21%) and Lebanon (20%). Most of the Arabic J1 belongs to the J1-P858 variety. About 20% of Jewish people belong haplogroup J1-P58, most of whom are also positive either for ZS227, L858 (Z642, YSC76 and FGC12) or Z18297. L816 represents a minority of Jewish J1. ZS227 comprises the Cohen Modal Haplotype. In the Hebrew Bible, the common ancestor of all Cohens is identified as Aaron, the brother of Moses. Roughly half of all Cohanim belong to J1-ZS227. The Cohanim haplotype (YCAII=22-22) of ZS227 matches the Z18271 deep clade.” ref

“The confusion comes from the fact that the Arabic language, which appeared a little more than 1,500 years ago, is much more recent than the haplogroup J1 (31,000 years old) or even the P58 subclade (14,000 years old). Even the J1-L858 subclade (5,000 years old), associated with Southwest Asian people, very clearly predates the Arabic language. The common ancestor of the J1-L858 men alive today dates back to approximately 4500 years ago, a time that corresponds to the development of the the oldest Semitic languages, like Akkadian and Amorite. In fact, L858 is not specific to the Arabian peninsula, but is also found among the Jews (especially Z640 subclade), Lebanese, Syrians and Iraqi, among others. In other words L858 cover all the region where ancient Semitic languages were spoken, well before Arabic even existed. That is why L858 should be seen as more widely Semitic and not just Arabic, even if the many Levantines and Mesopotamians were later Arabicised. The Jews are of the these Semitic people who were not Arabicised, and hardly anyone would argue that Jews are Arabs genetically, or vice versa.” ref

“J1a-Z1842, one of the most important Kura Araxian lineages that was once more in the regions of KA, but it became less common later; it survived mostly in the Nakh-Dagestan communities. Some important aDNA samples are: – Arslantepe 3400-3100 BCE, – Velikent Dagestan 3000-2800 BCE, – Armenia Dzoghaz 2500 BCE, – Hasanlu North-West Iran 2000 BCE, – Saifi 55 Lebanon 1000 BCE.” ref

Kenites’ Y-DNA haplogroup has a suggested association with J1-Z18297

“The J-Z18297 paternal line was formed when it branched off from the ancestor J-L862 around 4050 BCE.” ref

“The J-Z1842 paternal line was formed when it branched off from the ancestor J-Z18427 around 5550 BCE.” ref

Jewish Y-DNA haplogroup: J1-Z18297

“The Z18297 ancestor is older than the start of Judaism. J1-Z18297 has several branches. The two main branches are named Z18292 and ZS4307. The branch Z18292 has four branches that are known as Jewish, and it is likely that the ancestor Z18292 lived in the region of the Levant. Not all branches are Jewish. The M4320 branch has two descending lines: J1-Z18297-M4320a and J1-Z18297-M4320b. The first is a classic Ashkenazi line. In the other branches of Z18292 have people from Iberia, Tunisia, Lebanon, Turkey, and Italy. In the Z18297 branch we have a few uncertain branches from Saudi Araboa-Kuwait-U.A.E. and one certain Z18297 branch from Saudi Arabia.” ref

“The central element of ancient Israel’s religion through most of the monarchic period was the worship of a god named Yahweh, and for this reason the religion of Israel is often referred to as Yahwism. Yahweh, however, was not the “original” god of Israel. Rather it was El, the head of the Canaanite pantheon whose name forms the basis of the name “Israel” (Hebrew: יִשְׂרָאֵל), and none of the Hebrew patriarchs, tribes of Israel, Judges, or early monarchs have a Yahwistic theophoric name (i.e., a name incorporating the name of Yahweh). It is unclear how, where, or why Yahweh appeared in the Levant; even his name is a point of confusion.” ref

“The exact date of his first appearance is also ambiguous: the term Israel first enters historical records in the 13th century BCE with the Egyptian Merneptah Stele, and, while the worship of Yahweh is circumstantially attested to as early as the 12th century BCE, there is no attestation of even the name “Yahweh” in the Levant until some four hundred years later with the Mesha Stele (9th century BCE). Because of this, Christian Frevel argues that Yahweh worship was rooted in the Kingdom of Israel and preserved by the Omride clan. Nevertheless, many scholars believe that the shared worship of Yahweh played a role in the emergence of Israel in the Late Bronze Age (circa 1200 BCE).” ref

“The earliest known Israelite place of worship is a 12th-century open-air altar in the hills of Samaria featuring a bronze bull reminiscent of the Canaanite El-bull. Early Israel was a society of rural villages, but in time urban centers grew up and society became more structured and complex. The Hebrew Bible gives the impression that the Jerusalem Temple was always meant to be the central (or even sole) temple of Yahweh, but this was not the case; archaeological remains of other temples have been found at Dan on Israel’s northern border; Arad; Beersheba; and Motza in the southern region of Judah. Shiloh, Bethel, Gilgal, Mizpah, Ramah, and Dan were also major sites for festivals, sacrifices, vow-making, private rituals, and the adjudication of legal disputes.” ref

“During an era of religious syncretism, it became accepted among the Israelite people to consider the Canaanite god El as the same as Yahweh. El was soon thought to have always been the same deity as Yahweh, as evidenced by Exodus 6:2–3. Additionally, onomastic evidence indicates that some ancient Israelite families in the pre-exilic period seem to have syncretized the other Canaanite deities with Yahweh, a phenomenon which some scholars have described as “an inclusive sort of monolatry”. According to Theodore J. Lewis, different Israelite locales held different beliefs about El but viewed him as a “regional god” that was not entwined with the monarchic nation-state. Because of this, small-scale sacred places were built instead of temples.” ref

“The worship of Yahweh alone began at the earliest with prophet Elijah in the 9th century BCE, and at the latest with prophet Hosea in the 8th; even then it remained the concern of a small party before gaining ascendancy in the exilic and early post-exilic period. The early supporters of this faction are widely regarded as monolatrists rather than monotheists; believing Yahweh was the only god worthy of Israelite worship, not that Yahweh was the only god in existence—a noticeable departure from the traditional beliefs of the Israelites nonetheless. It was during the national crisis of the Babylonian Exile that the followers of Yahweh went a step further and denied that any deities aside from Yahweh existed at all—marking the transition from monolatrism to monotheism, and, by extension, from Yahwism to Judaism. Some scholars date the start of widespread monotheism to the 8th century BCE, and view it as a response to Neo-Assyrian aggression.” ref

“In 539 BCE, Babylon fell to the Persians, ending the Babylonian exile. According to Ezra 2, 42,360 of the exiled Israelites returned to Jerusalem. As descendants of the original exiles, they had never lived in Judah; nevertheless, in the view of the authors of the Biblical literature, they, and not those who had remained in the land, were “Israel”. Judah, now called Yehud, was a Persian province, and the returnees, with their Persian connections in Babylon, secured positions of authority. Though they represented the descendants of the old “Yahweh-alone” movement, the religion they came to institute was significantly different from monarchic Yahwism. Differences included new concepts of priesthood; a new focus on written law and thus on scripture; and a concern with preserving purity by prohibiting intermarriage outside the community of this new “Israel”. This new faith later evolved into Second Temple Judaism. The competing religion of Samaritanism also emerged from the “Yahweh-alone” movement.” ref

“There is a broad consensus among modern scholars that the religion of ancient Israel was polytheistic, involving many gods and goddesses. The supreme god was Yahweh, whose name appears as an element on personal seals from the late 9th to the 6th centuries BCE. Alongside Yahweh was his consort Asherah (replaced by the goddess “Anat-Yahu” in the temple of the 5th century Jewish settlement Elephantine in Egypt), and various biblical passages indicate that statues of the goddess were kept in Yahweh’s temples in Jerusalem, Bethel, and Samaria. Below Yahweh and Asherah were second tier gods and goddesses such as Baal, Shamash, Yarikh, Mot, and Astarte, all of whom had their priests and prophets and numbered royalty among their devotees. A goddess called the “Queen of Heaven” was also worshiped: she was probably a fusion of Astarte and the Mesopotamian goddess Ishtar, although the phrase is possibly a title of Asherah.” ref

“A third tier may also have existed, made up of specialist deities such as the god of snakebite-cures – his name is unknown, as the biblical text identifies him only as Nehushtan, a pun based on the shape of his representation and the metal of which it was made – and below these again was a fourth and final group of minor divine beings such as the mal’ak, the messengers of the higher gods, who in later times became the angels of Christianity, Judaism and Islam, and other heavenly beings such as cherubim. Worship of Baal and Yahweh coexisted in the early period of Israel’s history, but they were considered irreconcilable after the 9th century BCE, following the efforts of King Ahab and his queen Jezebel to elevate Baal to the status of national god, although the cult of Baal did continue for some time.” ref

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