Mee, you are repeatedly century-old rubbish. No, Babylonians did not use crosses. No, they did not even pronounce "Tammuz" with a T-sound, or spell it with a T-letter (or any kind of letters), and did not use initials. No, Egyptian priests did not "carry" ankh-crosses; it was a written symbol, derived from a picture of a sandal (
nakh in Egyptian) used for any word with the consonants
n-kh in it (like
ankh "life").
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Originally Posted by mee
Significantly, the Masoretic vowel points in the Leningrad Codex allow for the pronunciation of the Tetragrammaton—the four Hebrew consonants making up the divine name—as Yehwah’, Yehwih’, and Yeho·wah’.
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Nowhere in the Leningrad codex do any of those claimed vowel-pointings occur (I typed the entire text of the Leningrad codex into a computer in 1978; that text is the basis for all online-available Hebrew texts).
The pointing is usually
YaHoWaH indicating that the cantor should sing it as
`aDoNaY "LORD", except when
Adonay YHWH occurs, when it is pointed as
YeHoWiH to indicate that the cantor should sing it as
Adonay Elohim "LORD God". At no time would a cantor sing it using the Tetragrammaton consonants.