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“I will not fail to speak of Leviathan’s limbs, its strength and its graceful form. 13 Who can strip off its outer coat? Who can penetrate its double coat of armor[b]? 14 Who dares open the doors of its mouth, ringed about with fearsome teeth? 15 Its back has[c] rows of shields tightly sealed together;

this reads crocodile to me, but then we get this

each is so close to the next that no air can pass between. 17 They are joined fast to one another; they cling together and cannot be parted. 18 Its snorting throws out flashes of light; its eyes are like the rays of dawn. 19 Flames stream from its mouth; sparks of fire shoot out. 20 Smoke pours from its nostrils as from a boiling pot over burning reeds. 21 Its breath sets coals ablaze, and flames dart from its mouth. 22 Strength resides in its neck; dismay goes before it. 23 The folds of its flesh are tightly joined; they are firm and immovable. 24 Its chest is hard as rock, hard as a lower millstone. 25 When it rises up, the mighty are terrified; they retreat before its thrashing.

now as for the smoke and fire, i want to ascribe that to steam or moisture being mistaken for smoke, or just as an allusion to either watery breath from the nostrils of some great crocodile or the blow hole of a whale. theres reference to harpoons earlier, god asks job and his fellows who can pierce the leviathans skull with a harpoon, its not just that whales were typically hunted with harpoons, but also that i think hebrews and ancient peoples in general were probably quite intimately familiar with crocodilians and there skulls can be pierced by harpoons, though it would be quite tough due to its hide. there are other problems, the narrative goes out of its way to mention specifically the gracefulness of its limbs, really emphasizes that, i wouldnt describe a whales limbs as graceful nor a crocodiles, and the people who wrote these scriptures were obvoiusly very descriptive and i doubt any man would describe any of the animals offered up as possible explanations. these people had animal husbandry for christmas sake, but then they have leviathan specifically named under kosher foods along with geckos and other reptilians. it had to have been just a big ass hell crocodile, listen you dont understand how big they are, videos dont do them justice.

lets talk about snakes. specifically about the genesis story, the gnostics had quite a lot to say about the snake in the creation story but im not gonna get into that, i just want to point out that the snake after tempting eve is then cursed to walk on its belly, which is interesting, if you look at the creation theory from the point of view that it was just a bunch of nonsense, they chose the snake arbitrarily (or perhaps due to the very small vestigial remenants of leg bones that remain on some snake species) they knew they it at one point did not crawl on its belly. so what we understand as a snake is itself a physically fallen form, remember whatever it used to look like it didnt crawl on its belly. the genesis story itself theres all this stuff in there that is good to learn but you cant help but feel that theres context that contemporaries expected you to know at the time the book was written and distributed.right off the bat, they are instructed not to eat of the fruit of the knowledge of good and evil, i wont nit pick and ask where it came from or why it was there, but why specifically the knowledge of good and evil? i know the dogmatic answers, but im not talking about answers at all, im saying on a basic human level it strikes a sort of odd nerve doesnt it? why is knowledge cast in such a bad light here (im not interested in apologetics) and then later in proverbs and elsewhere wisdom, which while admittedly different their is a striking familial resemblance between the too, is basically deified, refered to by name and i believe in some twisted popes fantasy became a manifestation of the holy spirit, dont quote me on that, ive been studying but i find catholic autism really boring. they really took that apostilic lineage and ran with it didnt they though? man this is a tangent. the snake and why its there thats another serious problem, which is retconned later in revelations, a book that remained contentious into the fourth century. im beating around the bush.

gnostics view of cosmology differs from that of modern catholics and protestants, in there view, the snake wasnt satan but christ, and the god of the old testament wasnt god, but the demiurge, the god of this earth, the god of the material, what you can percieve with the senses, and his holy host of angels are in fact the principalities of the air, what you might understand as demons. in there view, yaweh was a blind god, a lower god, but he couldnt perceive what was beyond the material world. he was jealous and prideful and knowing that if we ate of the fruit of the tree of wisdom (wisdom is deified) we would see them for what they were, and surpass them, being jealous obviously the demiurge wouldnt have liked that very much. i am simplifying like you wouldnt damn believe. the idea is inside of us is a spark of divinity, literally of the gods, mixed together with matter, animals are matter with soul, humans are matter with soul and spirit, the spirit is the divinity of man, the ability to achieve gnosis and be reuinited with the source of that divine substance. the rulers of the air, the principalities of the earth control the material world but they are imperfect they arent really god, god doesnt exist in the matter, the matter exists in it. it goes beyond that, and entertaining the thought has been entertaining, i had a lot of biblical context going in, though i never studied it in a scholastic environment, but i feel that i lack the background knowledge about mystery cults, so ive been voraciously reading everything. it does wrap a lot of things up a nice little bow though, there is a market change in tone between old testament and new, and then another in how the gospels were then disseminated.

im not really in the market for a new religion, i feel like im pulling the right thread though as far as understanding the world around me better. i was far to hand wavy in my dismissal of cults and fraternities. if i were rich, id buy a lot of books and probably never read them

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