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David Cole makes a neat point in his book Understanding God's Message: He adds that...

This is actually a good question. I came across Jewish writings seeing inner meanings in other words too as derived from the letters. Two examples were Passover and Pharaoh, which both use the pictoral meaning of the letters. Here is one mention about Passover this way: ^The text has a...

Wil, That could depend on the word that the inner meaning was found in. In normal poetry one tactic is sometimes to use words with certain connotations. Like a poem that talks about waves could use words that "swoosh", based on the poet's intentional use. She sells seashells by the seashore...

I was not setting out the views in order to definitely advocate for one position or another, as my mind is not made up and I would like real insight into the topic. This is why I quoted from the Hebrew Resource Center page, not knowing the writer was Christian. I have not been trying to advocate...

Thanks for writing. I am looking for cases when they used the meanings of the letters themselves to see inner meaning in YHWH. It seems like over the last 4000+ years some Jewish mystics would have done that, considering some of their practices of seeing inner meanings in letters of words (eg...

Paul considered Christians to be Jews in an "inner" way. (Romans 2:29) But that is not what you mean here when you talk about posing as Jews (I think).

To give an example of what I mean about the importance of the divine name in Judaism, the Judaism 101 website says:

Let me please add that my main thread question rests on three premises: 1. Ancient Hebrew writing in the time of the Torah and Psalms was based on a pictographic script or developed out of one. This means that the script letters had names and meanings. So for example, yod is a Hebrew word...

Hello, Dan0813 Thank you for mentioning about the website owner's religion, of which I was not aware.

In ancient civilizations like the Chinese, Sumerians, Babylonians, and Egyptians, the name for God has been written with pictograms, where the pictures not only meant God, but had a certain secondary meaning. Have Jews over the centuries seen a similar meaning in the letters making up God's...

Thanks, Namaste.

Another interesting thing for me was the theory that Om goes back to at least the time of the Harappan civilization. In his essay "On the Primary Meaning and Etymology of the Sacred Syllable OM", Asko Parpola compares the root meanings of Om in Dravidian and the Sanskrit Vedas. He quotes from...

Thanks for sharing, Namaste.

Yes. I would like to please ask what were the gods of the Indus Valley Civilization. I only found a couple in these articles, but I'm sure there were more.

Additional question: Could the god Mhasoba be related to the Shiva-like figure sitting down in the tablet as some scholars claim? D. Kosambi writes in Myth and Reality that the Indus seal with its image of a Shiva-like horned figure is a prototype of the later Hindu ideas and that this is...