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The Septuagint often translates Shaddai or El Shaddai just as "God" or "my God", and in at least one passage (Ezekiel 10:5) it is transliterated ("θεὸς σαδδαΐ "). In other places (such as Job 5:17) it appears as "Almighty" ("παντοκράτωρ "), and this word features in other translations as well, such as the 1611 King James ...
Metatron is invoked in a love ritual by the witch Geli Tripping in Thomas Pynchon's novel Gravity's Rainbow (1973). [72] Metatron appears as an angel and the spokesperson of God in the novel Good Omens (1990) and its 2019 TV adaptation. Metatron is played in the series by Derek Jacobi. [73] [74]
The Old Testament/Hebrew Bible reveals YHWH (often vocalized with vowels as "Yahweh" or "Jehovah") as the personal name of God, along with certain titles including El Elyon and El Shaddai. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] Jah or Yah is an abbreviation of Jahweh/Yahweh, and often sees usage by Christians in the interjection " Hallelujah ", meaning "Praise Yah ...
El Shaddai (אל שדי, ʾel šadday, pronounced) is one of the names of God in Judaism, with its etymology coming from the influence of the Ugaritic religion on modern Judaism. El Shaddai is conventionally translated as "God Almighty".
The name Abel, which appears to refer to El, in fact is not an instance of theophory. Abel can be translated as "breath", "temporary" or "meaninglessness" and is the word translated as "vanity" in Ecclesiastes 1:2 in the King James Version. The name Jael also appears to refer to El in English, but contains ayin rather than the aleph of El.
The latter refers to one existing which, in the context of deities, can also refer to one's eternal existence, which aligns with Bible verses such as Exodus 3:15 and views that ehye 'ăšer 'ehye can mean "I am the Existing One". [23] It also explains the ease of Israelites applying the Olam (or 'everlasting') epithet from El [24] to Yahweh.
In El Shaddai: Ascension of the Metatron, many members of the Grigori are shown throughout the game as the main antagonists. To name a few: Azazel , Armaros , Arakiel , Baraqiel , and Semyaza . In the English localization of the first Drakengard game , the overarching antagonists are semi-divine beings called "the Watchers."
A diagram of the names of God in Athanasius Kircher's Oedipus Aegyptiacus (1652–1654). The style and form are typical of the mystical tradition, as early theologians began to fuse emerging pre-Enlightenment concepts of classification and organization with religion and alchemy, to shape an artful and perhaps more conceptual view of God.