Is Yahweh, who appears in the book as "the Lord of the sheep",
an extraterrestrial?
Enoch's
prophetic vision of the animals starts at 85.3
with the story of Adam, as a bull, and continues through to around 90.17 with
mostly recognisable Bible stories plus a serious condemnation of the religious
leaders of our organised religions. It then moves into the future, far into
the future, concluding at 90.38 with a happy ending where even "the lord
of the sheep rejoices".
There are a few details that did not make it into the Bible when it came to
be written, and particularly interesting are instances where "the lord
of the sheep" appears in person and is seen.
The only description of Yahweh is from the beginning of the Exodus -
89.22 And the Lord of the sheep went with them, as He led them, and all his sheep followed Him; and His face was glorious, and His appearance terrible and magnificent.
The Egyptian Army (the wolves) then see Yahweh during the parting of the waters episode -
89.25
And, while those wolves had not yet seen the sheep they went into the middle
of that stretch of water; but the wolves pursued the sheep, and those wolves
ran after them into that stretch of water.
89.26 But, when they saw the Lord of the sheep, they turned to flee in front
of Him; but that stretch of water flowed together again, and suddenly resumed
its natural form, and the water swelled up, and rose, until it covered those
wolves.
Possibly there were no surviving witnesses to that one, but there were for this one -
89.28
But the sheep escaped that water, and went to a desert, where there was neither
water nor grass. And they began to open their eyes, and see, and I saw the
Lord of the sheep pasturing them, and giving them water, and grass, and that
sheep going and leading them.
89.29 And that sheep went up to the summit of a high rock, and the Lord of
the sheep sent it to them.
89.30 And after this, I saw the Lord of the sheep standing in front of them,
and His appearance was terrible and majestic, and all those sheep saw Him,
and were afraid of Him.
89.31 And all of them were afraid, and trembled before Him; and they cried
out after that sheep who was with them in their midst: "We cannot stand
before our Lord, nor look at Him."
Moses is "that sheep" in this story. The next incident is where Yahweh turns out in person to help Jesus "that ram" -
90.14
And I looked until that man, who wrote down the names of the shepherds, and
brought them up before the Lord of the sheep, came, and he helped that ram,
and showed it everything; that its help was coming down.
90.15 And I looked until that Lord of the sheep came to them in anger, all
those who saw him fled, and they all fell into the shadows, in front of Him.
My conclusion
from this is that Yahweh is not one of the Watchers and does not look like
a man. Presumably he doesn't look anything like any of the Egyptian mythological
beings since their army fled at the sight of him.
There might be a connection with the Sumerian god called Dagon
who is the "fish" god (see also the links on my seven
sages page) who despite being a lovely character was they said, in appearance,
an abomination. Combine this with an african tribe called Dogon,
who have an oral history that includes meeting squid-like aliens from Sirius
(dog star), and strange statues from Japan called Dogu that are over 10,000
years old. The Dogu look like a squid in a space-suit to me. (see below for
more links)
Above a dogu from Japan, below Sumerian fish gods -
Dagon
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dagon
The Hebrew Bible mentions him as the national god of the Philistines with
temples at Ashdod and elsewhere in Gaza.
Dogon
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dogon_people
http://www.unmuseum.org/siriusb.htm
Dogu
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dog%C5%AB