What the hell, or.. Who the hell is El?
H(ell)? Ang(el)? Gabri(el)? Micha(el)? Bab(el)? Bib(el)? (El)ohim? Temp(el)? (El)ite? (El)der? (El)even? Isra(el)? (El)chemy? H(el)ios? Ru(el)? (El)uminati?
If I was a Christian.. I feel like I sure would be extra curious! But.. I feel like this should make almost anyone who is slightly interested about the world curious.
Unfortunately.. We don't know. The best guess we have for "EL" appears to be a Canaanite god.
It does seem to have some kind of.. Almost supernatural or spiritual sense to it.. It's associated with so many things of such nature.. Very interesting indeed!
Many conspiracy theorists think it means "Satan" so to speak. Though, etymologically speaking, we can't find the origins and what we do have doesn't really give a negative or positive image, but more neutral.
So.. Once again.. I wonder.. Who, or what the hell is El? -.-
El is the hebrew name of God. Root word meaing might, strenth, power etc..
http://www.hebrew4christians.com/Names_of_G-d/El/el.html
My understanding based on various pages I checked out is what I posted above, that no one really knows.. But I'll check out your evidence and continue to do more research.
The first line in your link says "probably" comes from. They admit they don't know for sure.
Although I didn't use the link, @kingkutdabarber is right. It is one of the attributes/names of God in the Torah, used many times throughout. It is also usually used at the end of certain Hebrew words to connect a root word to God. Like in the words Yisrael, or Michael. You can learn about the meaning of that Name and Yisrael in this post I made a while ago... https://steemit.com/religion/@inphiknit/regarding-the-claim-that-israel-is-a-word-encoding-egyptian-gods-is-ra-el
I would not put the same meaning to that same sound or letter combination in english words like bible, elite, towel, vowel, hell, etc. Would have to examine them each individually... And careful not to confuse the el sound or suffix with the arabic al, which means "the," as in alchemy, or algebra.
Regarding the origin of the name, according to Judaism, it has always been one of God's names. (We're in the year 5777.) According to the story, all mankind knew God until a certain point where people starting worshipping representations of God, and eventually, going even lower, worshipping representations of individual forces of nature, or lower still... As various pantheons of idols grew in different regions around the world, the One Creator was relegated to One of many. If you look at wikipedia's post about the religions of the Canaanites, it says that; "El, also called 'Il or Elyon ("Most High"), generally considered leader of the pantheon." (Source.)
Although Created by God, Satan, also from the Torah, is of course, someone/thing else. (Though I don't deny that conspiracy theorists might claim any number of things...) Fun questions to explore though^^ If you want to chat sometime, you can PM me on steemit.chat, same name as here...
Hey.. Just wanted to let you know I read your response and will respond when I get a chance.. I'm overwhelmed with stuff and it's taking me a while.. But I also wanna try to get on steemit chat sometime soon. I've never used the chat yet and I'm not sure how to use it but another friend of mine wants me to try it out and chat with him on there too.. So.. I'll work on that soon and I'll respond to your message soon as well. Probably tomorrow.
Thanks for your thoughts btw!
No worries! Drop me a line anytime!
YW and have a good one :)
Well. I can't so easily accept that he is right as you can. In the articles I wrote, they stated that they don't know where it originated, they have theories, but they don't know. So.. I'll assume that your translation is probably the earliest and most reliably known source.
But.. I have a feeling it goes back even further, perhaps to languages lost to history.
In regards to al and el.. I appreciate your distinction, however the word you referenced was "the" and "el" is also "the" in Spanish.. Which evolved from latin, so.. You know.. I don't necessarily see a problem there at all, it fits. "The" is or can be a metaphor for God.
Also in regards to the Satanism confusion, I think they get this because a lot of secret society people believe in Lucifer, and.. I think the disconnect though is that they see Lucifer as a good guy who rebelled from the corrupt god and sometimes they also see him as the necessary dual dark part of god, as opposed to the Christians or conspiracy theorists types who see it all as like Satanic and evil.
Sorry for the super delayed response, and I still haven't tried steemit chat yet, but I hope to soon.
It's ok. I appreciate your taking the time to reply.
And I accept all your points, I just wanted to add our layer of understanding to your discussion.
And hELp!
I would guess though that the AL is different. L itself is a semi-vowel, the E adds no vocal difference, but AL is vowel + L as consonant. Does that sound right?
Good one! In regards to "help". And um.. You could be right. Al and El could be different. I don't know for sure. But.. Al and El sound extremely similar to me. Especially if you try to mix the two, it's hard to explain.. But they have a very phonetically similar sound.