>>19801055Ahriman arose before Ahura-Mazda from Zurvan. It is common in mythologies for chaotic/"evil" forces (void/primordial waters/Chaoskampf serpent) to be anterior to the forces of order/good.
>Tehom (Hebrew: תְּהוֹם təhôm) is a Northwest Semitic and Biblical Hebrew word meaning "the deep” or “abyss” (literally “the deeps”). It is used to describe the primeval ocean and the post-creation waters of the earth. Tiamat, a Mesopotamian primordial goddess of the sea, may be cognate with tehom in the Book of Genesis. According to a theological dictionary, it derives from a Semitic root which denoted the sea as an unpersonified entity with mythological import>Tohu wa-bohu or Tohu va-Vohu (Biblical Hebrew: תֹהוּ וָבֹהוּ ṯōhū wāḇōhū) is a Biblical Hebrew phrase found in the Genesis creation narrative (Genesis 1:2) that describes the condition of the earth ('aretz) immediately before the creation of light in Genesis 1:3>The etymology of the name Yaldabaoth has been subject to many speculative theories. Until 1974, etymologies deriving from the unattested Aramaic: בהותא, romanized: bāhūthā, supposedly meaning "chaos", represented the majority view. Following an analysis by the Jewish historian of religion Gershom Scholem published in 1974, this etymology no longer enjoyed any notable support. His analysis showed the unattested Aramaic term to have been fabulated and attested only in a single corrupted text from 1859, with its claimed translation having been transposed from the reading of an earlier etymology, whose explanation seemingly equated "darkness" and "chaos" when translating an unattested supposed plural form of Hebrew: בוהו, romanized: bōhu>>19801057>Just look up Robert SepehrI don't read low-tier glowie bullshit, I prefer Jason Jorjani instead. Sorry.
