Hiding In Plain Sight?

We have spoken here of the many appearances of the Yassa, Jesza, Jaster, Eostre, Jasion (the demi-God but also name Slavic for “autumn”), Jason or Yasser thoughout history.  In Slavic languages the word may be cognate with the words for “being,” e.g., jest as in “[he/she/it] is” (English is, German ist, etc) or for brightness, e.g., jasny (but also jastny) or jawa (consciousness, being).

In light of this (so to speak), it is curious that “I Am that I Am” has been translated as such.  Put differently, ehyeh ašer ehyeh could be translated as ehyeh Ašer ehyeh.  In this way, the conjunction “that” that renders the above almost cabalistic and “mystical” gives way to a real name.  That Ašer is a name (“happy one”) and otherwise appears in the Bible (Tribe of Ašer) would support this interpretation.  Aser is typically placed on the Phoenician (?Venetian?) coast near the city of Tyre.  Further, there have been suggestions that the name of this tribe may be of Assyrian or other origin (Astarte or the Egyptian Isis, etc).

Of course, all of this is pure speculation.

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September 26, 2016

5 thoughts on “Hiding In Plain Sight?

  1. Marek

    Tribe of Asher is Virgo (food related like Ceres or Vortumnus), rather not Astarte which is Libra, and moreover polish Jaś/latvian Usins is in my opinion Mars (Jasterbog, Jastrzebog is venus), I don’t have many arguments at the moment, but the key of hades relates to scorpio ruled by mars, jarilo, Jarovit relates to Aries/Jaries Jarość – Gniew, Simon the Zealote
    btw this is really strange that “I am who I am” has inside his name the name of one of two most disliked gods by him (second was Baal)

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    1. torino Post author

      Ok, you can try to show these things but you actually have to show them rather than just pulling it all out of your ass. Do some work on it and then try again – if you have something.

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      1. Marek

        if you don’t understand something which I write, please always write which word you don’t understand, it is impossible you don’t understand everything

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      2. Marek

        If you don’t understand why asher is virgo… genesis 49, try your skill of understanding astrology and connect each tribe to zodiac sign.

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        1. torino Post author

          Sorry, don’t practice astrology – most of the IE Gods likely pre-date the writing of the Bible (and, incidentally, Babylon) and assuming the Kurgan theory is right, the PIEs were speaking PIE, a few thousand years BC. Again, suggest setting up an astrological blog!

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