The human race of “gods”

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The superb book, The Goddesses and Gods of Old Europe by Marija Gimbutas determines [sic] that there was a race of beings, in Europe of ancient times:

(I will refer back to this wonderful scholarly tome often.)

 And in my thesis that the early god of the Israelites – Yahweh – was a member of the race of human “gods” that existed and thrived during the Bronze Age [3300 BC to 1200 BC ] and into the Iron Age [1200 BC], some from a period shortly after 40,000 B.C. (when the Neanderthals “disappeared”).

Yahweh existed from about 1200 BC to ???? That’s the question: when did the pretend god, Yahweh, disappear. (I’ll provide suggestions from scholars upcoming.)

My point here is that there appears to be a race of humans that differed in significant ways from homo sapiens, the normally evolved human species.

That race of beings did not interact with other human species or civilizations that existed from the 4000 B.C. period onwards but they were noticed and noted by normal humans who depicted them and their activities, seen by scholars as mythology, not actual historical references, which is and has been an intellectual mistake.

While the Gimbutas book, cited above, provides exquisite evidence for that “hidden” species that came to be known as gods or divine, there are world-wide citations in stories, poems, and song, from the time-frame 4000 BC to the common era that refer to the godly species.

A major reference for academia is the Epic of Gilgamesh [2100 BC to 1200 BC]:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epic_of_Gilgamesh

But most of us are familiar with stories from Greece of the pantheon who lived among the peoples of the Mediterranean Sea: Zeus, Poseidon, Hera, Athena, Aphrodite and Ares, et al. (renamed by the Romans: Jupiter, Juno, Mars, Mercury, Neptune, Venus, et al.).

And the Norse (Scandanavian/Germanic) gods: Odin,Thor, Loki ...

The Hindu (Indian) gods: Brahma, Vishnu, Shiva …

The Olmec, Aztec. Mayan gods, the African pantheon, the Chinese, the Japanese gods; the AmerIndian deities, the Polynesian divinities, the Inuit gods, the Celt divines, the Egyptian panoply; you get my drift….

A race of different beings have been written about, referenced in a number of ways, seen and sometimes interacted with, but rarely inserting their civilization upon the primitive civilizations that abutted theirs. They co-existed but over-existed, generally above and beyond the peoples with whom they shared a geography.

The historical, mythological record makes it seem that ordinary humans were part and parcel of the divine milieux but that was a gloss put upon the reality by the generic humans.

When I researched the Canaanite cities and cultures, coming across the intrusions of an odd but respected clan of creatures held in esteem and awe by their regional compatriots, I was greatly surprised that one god, of the many, moved from his environment to the ragged environment of the period, the bedraggled and whipped cultural society of the Israelites.

Why?

Yahweh was a kind of opportunist, a grotesque creature outside the norms of his race, where beauty, power, and stature were primary elements.

Seeing a chance to woo a sullen, disgraced race that had been recently conquered and subjected to the whims of their conquerors, Yahweh moved in to accrue the adoration that his race received from normal – I want to write “mortal” – humans, but which he did not.

And his abnormalities (especially his genitalia) were made prominent, in ritual ceremony and religious orientation.

Here’s where the scholarship of Howard Eilberg-Schwartz’ book God’s Phallus comes in ….

“ … various Israelite leaders see the deity in what appears to be human form. But it is a human form in which the sex of God is carefully obscured. The question of God’s genitals was an extremely delicate one for ancient Jews … “ [Page 60] “Nadab and Abihu are described as sons of Aaron , and hence a priestly lineage … Moreover, they are the two sons of Aaron who die … [for gazing] at God in an inappropriate manner.” [Page 61]

This goes to my main thesis, that Yahweh was an oddly configured human, from among the race of beings who came to be called gods only because they were strangely outside the “civilized” configurations of the time periods.

And his effort(s) to create for himself, despite his provocative physiognomy, twisted what has become the whole distorted history of humankind’s idea of religion, a flawed idea stemming from a deformed being.

Next up, more about the races of human entities who are seen, in mythical tales and some legitimate historical records, as divinities or gods, not by their attributions but by the errant thinking of near primitive man.

RR