The Beast of Revellations has a name...
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Topic: The Beast of Revellations has a name...
Posted By: Bismarck
Subject: The Beast of Revellations has a name...
Date Posted: 11 May 2006 at 8:42pm
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Lotan
Lotan is the seven-headed sea serpent or dragon of Ugaritic myths. He is either a pet of the god IAH or Yaw or Yaw himself, who is also known as Yam (sea) or Nahar (river); the cosmic ocean of myth is often known as a great stream. The Hebrew analogue is the Leviathan. He represents the mass destruction of floods, oceans, and winter. He lives in a palace in the sea. He fights with THE LORD Hadad who scatters him. Names Lotan is also called: Yam, "Sir Sea", "Sir Stream", Yaw, Yamu, "Prince Sea", "Judge River", Tannin, Primeval Serpent, Lotan, Crooked Serpent, Sea Monster, close-coiling One, and the Tyrant of Seven Heads. (source: wikipedia) Leviathan by Micha F. Lindemans Literally, "coiled". In the Bible, and especially the Old Testament, the Leviathan is some sort of chaos animal in the shape of a crocodile or a serpent. In other bible texts it is taken to mean a whale or dolphin, because the animal is there described as living in the sea. Later the Leviathan became a symbol of evil, an anti-divine power (some sort of devil) which will be destroyed on Judgement Day. The Leviathan appears in more than one religion. In Canaanite mythology and literature, it is a monster called Lotan, 'the fleeing serpent, the coiling serpent, the powerful with the seven heads'. It was eventually killed by Baal. The Leviathan is also the Ugaritic god of evil. "This great and wide sea, wherein are things creeping innumerable, both small and great beasts. There go the ships: there is that leviathan, whom thou hast made to play therein." -- Ps. civ, 25-26 (source: EncyclopediaMythica) (Note that "Leviathin" and "Lotan" are the same word, consider the spelling "Lewiathin" versus "Lodan" |
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Posted By: BMZ
Date Posted: 12 May 2006 at 2:54am
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Bismarck, Reading the last chapter Revelations, could be injurious and hazardous to your health. As for me, I can't take it. I just don't know why John wrote it after he had written a gospel. If it was a different John then I don't know him. BR BMZ |
Posted By: DavidC
Date Posted: 12 May 2006 at 7:21am
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Revelations was written by a different author than the Gospel of John.
------------- Christian; Wesleyan M.Div. |
Posted By: fredifreeloader
Date Posted: 12 May 2006 at 7:55am
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the name of the book is "the revelation" - not revelations ------------- for i am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth - romans 1: 16 |
Posted By: Bismarck
Date Posted: 14 May 2006 at 9:57pm
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I forgot to mention the sources:
http://www.pantheon.org/articles/l/lotan.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lotan Just a note of warning, if you start to look into IAH the Babylonian chaos being, make sure you don't get confused with I.A.H. = International Airport, Houston, which is, of course, .t the same thing. |