>>20508788The Jewish God, Yahweh, is the Edomite/Midianite version of the Minoan/Pelasgian (Proto-Greek) Zeus/Dionysus, Velchanos, who was a infant/young solar agrarian bull god who dies and resurrects like the Middle Eastern gods like Dumuzi/Tammuz/Adonis, Baal Hadad and Osiris. In fact, Moses was known as Osarseph (Osar comes from Osiris, who was Dionysus to the Egyptians). This is why the Greeks/Romans equated Yahweh with Dionysus/Bacchus and said that the Phoenicians/Chaldeans called him Iao and Sabaoth, which were titles of Yahweh.
One of epithets of Zeus used by Cretan Greeks was "Zeus Velchanos". Cretan Greeks had several traditions about Zeus which were absent from the mainstream hellenic mythology, such as the place of Zeus' birth being an obscure sacred cave on mount Ida, or Zeus symbolically dying every year and then rising from the dead. All this suggests that the Cretan Zeus was an amalgam of Indo-European Zeus and a local Minoan god, whose name might have survived as the epithet "Velchanos" (notice the similarity to "Vulcan"). Also, Velchanos was the name of a spring festival and a month according to a calendar or two found in Gortyn (Crete).
The name "Hephaistos" (Mycenaean Apaitijo) contains possibly the same root as the Greek name of a city on Crete, "Phaistos" (Myc. Paito). We know that Phaistos is an originally Minoan word because the Egyptian records mention it in this form at a time when Mycenaeans haven't reached Crete yet.
