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as regards the "them" reference, it instead says adam. in other words, it says elohim created males and females in the image of adam, also known as the image of elohim. in effect, it's the same thing. he, singular, created males and females in the image of elohim plural, and called (them) adam. not it-adam or he-adam or she-adam, but multiple adam of both sexes, created from multiple elohim. and that's because adam is really a plural word, as was atum and elohim and alulim. the only time any of those words are used in the singular sense is when they apply to the creator as the head of life creation team - in effect, in the royal "we" sense. otherwise, the created were named after their creator templates (the elohim plural).
it's people assuming that the first adam were 1) procreators and 2) human, that screws up the text. it also obfuscates that there was a society of living beings who had not only developed a means of multiplying their numbers that didn't involve sexual reproduction, but also that these advanced beings were on the earth before humans.edit on 25-3-2014 by undo because: (no reason given)
1 in·beginning he-created Elohim »the·heavens and·» the·earth
and·the·earth she-became chaos and·vacancy and·darkness over surfaces-of abyss
and·spirit-of Elohim vibrating over surfaces-of the·waters
and·he-is-saying Elohim he-shall-become light and·he-is-becoming light
and·he-is- seeing Elohim » the·light that good and·he-is-separating Elohim between
the·light and·between the·darkness
and·he-is-calling Elohim to·the·light day and·to·the·darkness he-calls night
and·he-is-becoming evening and·he-is-becoming morning day one
and·he-is-saying Elohim we-shall-make human in·image-of·us as·likeness-of·us
and·they-shall-sway in·fish-of the·sea and·in·flyer-of the·heavens and·in·the·beast
and·in·all-of the·earth and·in·every-of the·moving-animal the·one-moving on the·land
and·he-is-creating Elohim » the·human in·image-of·him in·image-of Elohim he-created
»·him male and·female he-created »·them
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i don't think the adam in chapter 1 are humans. study this for a bit.
“the ideology and imagery of political power were being actively developed” (Wilkinson 2003, p. 79). Many of the decorated palettes, mace-heads, knife- handles, and other monuments assuredly “focus on foreign relations, aggression, and the assertion of order” (Baines 1999). Indeed, below its pragmatic surface, the territorial expansion of the Naqada cul- ture might have had deeper ideological and religious overtones, namely the subjugation of enemies (read: chaos) of cosmological order by the victorious divine ruler and his followers. Patricia Perry suggests an ad- ditional early and very successful amalgamation of ideological and political power: “It is likely that the Naqada IC–IIB Hierakonpolis elite employed ideologi- cal power [control over systems of meaning and be- lief, norm and ritual practices] as the principal means of political centralisation .... The Hierakonpolis cer- emonial centre (HK29A) ‘materialised’ the role of the elite as intermediaries in an emerging ideological system” (Perry in press)
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here's a pair underwater. that's seaweed in the picture. in the distance is an underwater pyramid
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bigfatfurrytexan
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I wonder the same thing. It looks an aweful lot like a ladder.
Did the AE's not view space as being like an ocean?
Utnapisjtim
bigfatfurrytexan
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I wonder the same thing. It looks an aweful lot like a ladder.
Did the AE's not view space as being like an ocean?
Not seaweed, but trees of life showing maternal generations. V is the ancient symbol for 'mother'. The "underwater pyramid" shows paternal generations, like Aedit on 27-3-2014 by Utnapisjtim because: Paternal