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This belief in a life-giving god, in prehistoric time (Catal Höyük) seen riding the bull, or as a bull suffering, killed and surrounded by water, but in the Bible called the good shepherd and the lamb slaughtered, is reaching us through endless ages of human struggle for life. rivers of fire surrounding the Ancient of Days, Dan 7, and God enthroned by the sea of crystal, and the river of life coming out from beneath his throne in Rev 22,1f. God of the Bible,´El/Jah, is simply the old prehistoric high god of the Middle East, the Lord of Paradise with the fourfold river bringing the life-giving water to the world, cf. Ea in Eridu is not only the provider of life-giving water, but also has a holy kishkanu-tree standing in his temple. Typhon is the personification of the Paradise mountain, Tsaphon, and he is half snake, half man, and tries to get more strength by eating a certain fruit, but it has the opposite effect (cf. Jao is also the name given to the Cilician monster, Typhon, overcome by Zeus. We have a pair of very old Anatolian gods, Tarku and Ja witnessed by the names given to old ritual singing, triambe and jambe and the names given the priest serving at a temple1 close to the Corycian cave in Cilicia. Ea can be compared with the Luwian god Ia. the place where the fresh waters coming from the underground meet with the salt water from the Persian Golf. This island must be identified with modern Bahrein, a name that in Arabic means ' two seas ', i.e. He lives on the paradise island of Dilmun, called a garden where there is not sickness nor old age or death. Enki is the great provider of life-giving water as seen in the great poem, Enki and Ninhursag.

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Abzu is the underground freshwater-basin, and Ea is often pictured with two streams of water running from his shoulders and his symbol is the goat and the fish, and his priests are dressed in skin of carp. He can be compared with the Akkadian god, Ea (Sumerian Enki), who has his temple called ' House of abzu ' in Eridu surrounded by Euphratian marshlands near the ancient coastline. He is living inside the mountain of the ' night ', Lel, the nightly vault seen as a black mountain dotted with firestones situated by the double offspring of water-streams. He is ' God ' par excellence, for ' gods ' in plural aréelim. In the Ugarit texts the old West Semitic High-god is called ' ´El, the Bull '.