Yahweh Volcano Fire God of War: Updated

[TheJackel]

The only problem with some of this is that there are no active volcanos in Canaan or Egypt.

There are some in Saudi Arabia which lends some credence to the idea that Yah was imported into Canaan from the south. IIRC there is an Egyptian inscription which indicates something about this from the New Kingdom period.

There doesn't have to be, and they would probably know what an inactive volcano looks like and still associate it with Yahweh. It's also likely Yahweh was associated with all or any volcanic activity in that part of the world. And yes there was volcanic activity in the region as Exodus for example is dated pretty close to the time period of the Thera Eruption and is likely based on that. This includes the link to Egyptian cities buried in volcanic ash and rock dating to this time period. It's an eruption of a magnitude that humans have rarely ever probably witnessed before, and people worship today far less impressive volcanoes. Now exodus in itself is likely a mythical story based on a real event as there is no evidence of Exodus happening as it is actually written, or the existence of Mosses.. I have provided links to volcanoes, and it's safe to say it would be naive to think they had no knowledge of volcanoes. Though I would say the Yah started off as a moon GOD and because associated with Sin to become a "Moon Mountain" God. But I will need more information. However, I don't think it's relevant where Volcanoes were here as they are up and down the Nile and in the Red Sea area.

And clearly, giving the description, I don't think they were basing that on just a dormant volcano.. It's just sad that not much research has been done concerning the volcanoes to which include the dormant ones in that region.. Just trying to look up the eruption histories seems to come up blanks on many of them in the region. And that has a lot to do with little or no vegetation to date them with, and the hospitable environments that really make it impractical to do so. :/

So to conclude all this, nobody really knows which mountain would have actually been Mt Sinia, or used for this mountain in the bible. It's likely Thera and perhaps others, but we will never actually know which if any, or all. But I would say volcanoes would indeed have left their impact on ancient religion and the development of as we still see it today as noted in the second article.