{"id":9337,"date":"2010-07-30T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-07-30T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2010\/07\/30\/another-look-at-the-blue-god-of-judaism\/"},"modified":"2010-07-30T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-07-30T12:00:00","slug":"another-look-at-the-blue-god-of-judaism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2010\/07\/30\/another-look-at-the-blue-god-of-judaism\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Look at the Blue God of Judaism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/thebluegodofjudaism.blogspot.com\/\">thebluegodofjudaism.blogspot.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>USA, JUly 30, 2010 (By Rabbi Robert dos Santos Teixeira, LCSW): Striking similarities exist between YHWH, the God of Judaism (whom Christians often refer to as Yahweh), and Shiva. Both, for instance, appear as a &#8220;pillar of fire;&#8221; both are associated with a bull, YHWH with a golden calf and Shiva with Nandi; and both have a blue complexion. Biblical, talmudic, midrashic, and mystical texts reveal that the ancient anthropomorphic form of YHWH is indeed blue! <\/p>\n<p>Not surprisingly, the Hebrew terms tarshish, sapir, and tekhelet that convey the blueness of YHWH&#8217;s body, accoutrements, and abode come from Sanskrit, which invites even further exploration and comparison.<\/p>\n<p>You can read more at the source, linked above. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: thebluegodofjudaism.blogspot.com USA, JUly 30, 2010 (By Rabbi Robert dos Santos Teixeira, LCSW): Striking similarities exist between YHWH, the God,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9337\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}