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Yahweh[a] was an ancient Levantine deity, the national god of the Israelite kingdoms of Israel and Judah. [4][5] Though no consensus exists regarding the deity's origins, [6] scholars generally contend that Yahweh is associated with Seir, Edom, Paran and Teman, [7] and later with Canaan.
Since the 16th century, artists have been using the tetragrammaton as a symbol for God, [165] or for divine illumination. [166] Protestant artists avoided to allegorize God in human form, but rather wrote the Hebrew name of God. This was done in book illustrations since 1530, then on coins and medals as well. [167]
Anu (Akkadian: ð’€ð’€€ð’‰¡ANU, from ð’€ an "Sky", "Heaven") or Anum, originally An (Sumerian: ð’€An), [ 10 ] was the divine personification of the sky, king of the gods, and ancestor of many of the deities in ancient Mesopotamian religion. He was regarded as a source of both divine and human kingship, and opens the enumerations of deities in ...
Dingir 𒀠, usually transliterated DIĜIR, [1] (Sumerian pronunciation: [tiŋiɾ]) is a Sumerian word for 'god' or 'goddess'. Its cuneiform sign is most commonly employed as the determinative for religious names and related concepts, in which case it is not pronounced and is conventionally transliterated as a superscript d , e.g. d Inanna.
The Caduceus, symbol of God Ningishzida, on the libation vase of Sumerian ruler Gudea, c. 2100 BCE Caduceus symbol on a punch-marked coin of king Ashoka in India, third to second century BC. William Hayes Ward (1910) discovered that symbols similar to the classical caduceus sometimes appeared on Mesopotamian cylinder seals.
The Hand of God symbol in the Ascension from the Drogo Sacramentary, c. 850. The Hand of God, an artistic metaphor, is found several times in the only ancient synagogue with a large surviving decorative scheme, the Dura Europos Synagogue of the mid-3rd century, and was probably adopted into Early Christian art from Jewish art.
The oldest document preserving this tradition is the Fara god list (Early Dynastic period). [255] Sometimes all the ancestors were collectively called "the Enkis and the Ninkis." [ 256 ] Enki, the ancestor of Enlil, is not to be confused with the god Enki/Ea, who is a distinct and unrelated figure. [ 257 ]
Religious symbol. A collage of artistic representations of various religious symbols; clockwise from top left: Om for Hinduism, Dharmachakra for Buddhism, Jain Prateek Chihna for Jainism, Khanda for Sikhism, Taijitu for Daoism, star and crescent for Islam, cross for Christianity, and Star of David for Judaism.