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>>18512643I don't know how people can take the Abrahamic faith seriously when the entirety of the tradition is steeped in deception, false history, egomania, and unspeakable crimes against humanity to preserve those sinful attributes.
>>18512643Horrible, inaccurate, and blatant disinformatory.Let's try and construct a frame. >The Zeroth Temple The “before” First Temple worship included a mixture of Canaanite and Levant gods. Some came in pairs (husband-wife), some didn't. Furthermore – and I cannot stress enough – temples were the ancient civilization's manufactories, as “sacred” places not to be destroyed because actual irreplaceable value akin to civilizational survival was at stake. Let's argue further – the story of the Tabernacle argues that places of worship weren't a sedentary affair, they could become itinerant and carry “tent temples” or “tent pantheons”, itinerant manufactories, workshops, with the preamble of being sacred space by protection of multiple, some, or one divine.Ancient Egypt. When Egypt poured into Canaan & Levant, Ancient Egyptian pantheon entered into a clash of civilizations, with which pharaonic cult worship using the Egyptian cult of control was applied heavily. Besides Canaanite & Levantine gods, now you had Egyptian ones. Hadad & Anat, Baal & Ishtar, with the rest, meet Ptah, Ra, Thoth, Isis, Hathor etc. What a mess!>First TempleWhatever year or period one wants to ascribe, the “primordial soup” of not-yet-Judaism was steeped in syncretic polytheism. Let's say, after 1500 BCE, with the construction, and much hassle between various groups, First Temple Judaism was a pantheon, a polytheist religion, with some maybe practicing henotheism. But multiple gods, nonetheless. There was a strife, within the grander Egyptian-Persian/Assyrian wars for control. This' where the exiles (prisoners) got into contact with monotheism or at the very least closest to it. This' where and when the legendary king Josiah/Yoshiyahu turned & flipped the First Temple to monotheism, that'd be known as the Second Temple. Amalek, “malakit”, refers to green – what Egyptian deity was associated with green?
>>18514045Some will immediately say Ptah. OK, but think closer to the Egyptian powerbase, the pharaonic cult of worship: Ra, Horus, Isis, Set... Horus is the closest to represent the pharaoh, with Hathor & Isis as the goddesses closely linked.
