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Chapter 7 The Name of God, the Merkabah and
Liberality
Isis tricked Ra into revealing his name and this led to his
downfall. However, Amun was not to be deceived. The post-Hyksos
Egyptian deity Amun had learned invincibility from the god of the Indo-
Hittites. His real name remained completely hidden because the Priests
never defined it in the first place: 386
Your first form by which you have begun was Amun - namely, he
who hides his name from the gods … Amun is one! (He) who hides himself
from the gods … whose nature is unknown…His nature is not recorded
(or displayed) in sacred scriptures; he cannot be described and taught.
He is too mysterious for his power to be laid bare; he is too great even to
be asked about, too immense to be perceived. One would fall dead
suddenly, in fear, if one were to pronounce the god's mysterious name,
unknown to everyone. Not even a god can call him by his name, the vital
one, because his name is secret.
Three are all the gods, Amun, Ra and Ptah. Aside form these there
is none. He who hides his name behind the word "Amun" is Ra at his
head, Ptah at his body. His cities are eternal: Thebes, Heliopolis and
Memphis - forever.
The very best way of hiding Amun's true name was never to
define it in the first place. The Israelite’s Yahweh could not overcome
him; Yahweh could only join him in absolute ineffability. The more
Yahweh developed, the more he became a transcendent god like Amun
rather than a personal god. In recognition of his affinity and equality with
Amun, Yahweh became increasingly unknowable. Eventually, his priests
knew him by only the most fundamental of all existential statements:
Ehiyeh Asher Ehiyeh (HYHA RShA HYHA), which means I am that I
am. 387 Along with Yahweh's change in character, his secret names of
Q're and Iahu became only partial labels.
Yahweh subsumed or incorporated in himself the other gods that
he defeated, and went on to embody the totality of Israelite' history in his
name. He became the terebinth-god or oak-god Bel, Cronos the barleygod,
Tammuz the harvest-god, Jupiter and Marduk. 388 In Jerusalem,
Yahweh was the scarlet oak-god El. At Mount Tabor, he became
Dionysus, the Daanan white-bull god. 389 He was Baal-Zephon, Baal-
Zubul, Lord of the North or Lord of the Mansions, and Atabyrius. 390 As
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