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  • From: Awohili AT aol.com
  • To: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org, peterkirk AT qaya.org, segall AT umich.edu
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] YHWH pronunciation
  • Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2005 08:32:37 EDT


The Tsalagi (Cherokee) were among the most assimilated of the Original
People of Turtle Island ("Native Americans"), and adopted many things from
the
Europeans. Whether or not the Divine Name was one of those things is
uncertain.

Some Cherokee pronounce the Name as two syllables: Yowah. The popular book,
"A Cherokee Feast of Days" by Joyce Sequichie Hifler says: "The Cherokees
had their Father-Creator whos was Yowah....The name Yowah was so sacred
that
only certain priests were allowed to say it." (page 18) That does sound
familiar to the tradition that arose around the pronouncing of YHWH.

(There are Tsalagi on one side of my family, but this tidbit was not
previously passed on to me.)

Solomon Landers
Awohili
Uwohilatlitigv

In a message dated 07/27/2005 2:56:05 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time,
peterkirk AT qaya.org writes:

Is it possible that the name of these traders' own God was pronounced by
them Ye-ho-wah or Je-ho-vah, and that they might themselves have passed
on to the Cherokee nation this name and the stories of Adam and Eve etc?








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