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Hey Ed, how you doing?

You're associating Goddess with waters, but what about Spirit of God? In my opinion God and Spirit of God are not the same, personally I associate this Spirit with Goddess and see her as builder of material universe when God is like an architect, this is how I read Genesis 1 and Proverbs 8. Sethian Gnostics had Barbelo who's God's first emanation and source of all, Gnostics in general associated feminine with material and masculine with spiritual.

Look at this Quqite myth:

https://old.reddit.com/r/Gnostic/comments/16wz66t/quqite_gnostic_myth/

Personally I disagree with your theory that Abraham supposedly sacrificed Isaac to El and later Yahweh was added as a hero. Maybe Yahwists tried to put that in this way, because as you know they demonized other gods except their own, I think those Greek writers were just confused as both El and Baal were associated with bulls.

Check out this hymn:

https://sapiru.wordpress.com/2023/08/17/ugaritic-hurrian-hymn-to-el/

Greek equivalent of El is Uranus rather than Cronos just like Yam's equivalent is Pontus who was replaced by Poseidon btw.

I think you may find this interesting:

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/265184845_Review_of_Adam_Eve_and_the_Devil_by_Marjo_Korpel_Johannes_de_Moor_Sheffield_2014

Your talk with Jacob about El and Yahweh has over 100k views now, so congrats bro.

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