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Tehom in the ) It was from this place that the waters of the drying of the Tehom will be a punishment to the wicked rather than a reward. (Isaiah 19:5) In Gnostic Belief used this text to propose the original creator God, called the "Pleroma" or "Bythos" (from the Greek, meaning "Deep") was supposed to pre-exist Elohim, and gave rise to such later divinities and spirits by way of emanations, progressively more distant and removed from the original form. Tehom is also the first of seven "Infernal Habitations" that correspond to the ten Qliphoth (literally "peels") of Jew ish Kabbalic tradition. Twentieth century Bible critics attempted to equate "Tehom" with the Babylon ian Tiamat , the monstrous mother of the gods, however the words are not related and ''tehom'' is cognate to the Akkadian word ''tamtu'' which similarly denotes the primeval ocean. Tiamat, however, originally came from the Sumerian "Tiama" (Ti = Life, Ama = Mother), a title applied in the Bible to EveYahuda, A., 'The Language of the Pentateuch in its Relation to Egyptian' (Oxford, 1933) OTHER USAGE Tehom is also a Spanish laptop company, a publication company (Tehom Publications) and the title of a cosmic painting by the American painter Dozier Bell. REFERENCES |
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