== Who says it was a giant chair?
The Bible.
== Well, YHWH was certainly metaphorically enthroned, although in English "enthroned" does not mean that the monarch is literally sitting on the throne at that time, and a suitable symbol for that was a throne. Anyway, the "mercy seat" was not all that giant, so your hypothesis suffers from uncertainties of scale.
Scholars have noted that, Isaiah 6:1 renders Yahweh after the fashion of an enthroned human king, and according to 1 Kings 6:23-28, the throne built for Yahweh in the Temples Holy of Holies or backroom was 10 cubits high and 10 cubits wide (5.3 square meters). Only a deity superhuman in scale could take a seat in such a throne. (Smith, OBM, 85)
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