jaynes mentions the mesopotamian concept of a personal god, an "ili", which often appears as part of a person's name (he brings up the examples of "Rim-Sin-Ili" ("my god is rim sin"), and "Sharru-ili" ("the king is my god").
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to an astute meme magician with basic knowledge of russian and hebrew, there is a single biblical name that signifies the breakdown of the bicameral mind: elijah (in russian, ili-ya): "my god is ya" (also the name of lenin's father for what it's worth)
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to an educated russian atheist (like lenin after the death of his father) the interpretation is clear: "I am my god". ironically, just the kind of thing jesus would say.
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this shouldn't surprise us, since we all know that the arrival of elijah is a precursor to the arrival of the messiah. a powerful patronymic even in a godless age.
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the choice of "Я" as an "ili" was too appealing to resist for the communism egregore, and they ended up with too powerful a symbol right at the root of their meaning graphhttps://twitter.com/suchaone/status/864722436205330432 …
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the most powerful languages are hebrew, greek, latin, sanskrit and chinese. powerful as in 'useful', but also as in 'likely to use you right back'.pic.twitter.com/9DRiInxEwt
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so what can the statement encoded in "elijah", "my god is the [tetragrammaton]", actually mean? if you use the definition given in exodus π, it unpacks ambiguously to either "my god will be what he will be" (a non-answer) or (more interestingly) "my god will be what I will be"
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the tetragrammaton derives from the word "to exist, to be" so other valid readings would be "my god will exist", or "my god will bring into being"
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nobody wants to give anyone a straight answer on this but it's probably something that doesn't translate all that well, like an intensified continuous "to be"
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