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To: Ezekiel

—”Tehom (Hebrew: תְּהוֹם) was the mythological cosmic ocean of Biblical cosmology,”

I believe you may be on to something!
Are the structural beams made from selenium?
Ivo Shandor the architect?

What is the meaning of Tehama?
high water
of the Arabian town and that of the California town. It is generally believed that Tehama is an Indian word meaning either. ‘high water’ or ‘low land.’ Old Teemo, a very old Indian woman, the last of a. tribe now unknown, who is remembered by some of the earliest Tehama set-

https://www.jstor.org/stable/1497162


9 posted on 06/07/2022 6:22:54 PM PDT by DUMBGRUNT ("The enemy has overrun us. We are blowing up everything. Vive la France!"Dien Bien Phu last message)
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To: DUMBGRUNT
The mythical ʾeven shetiyah, often translated as the “foundation stone,” marks the physical place where the Jerusalem temples once stood in the rabbinic imagination. In its earliest incarnation it identified the place where the ark of the covenant resided in Solomon's Temple. Over the centuries it absorbed cosmogonic and eventually eschatological meaning. In later post-talmudic rabbinic literature, it adopted another mythic trope—the seal on the tehom.

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/ajs-review/article/abs/imagining-the-temple-in-rabbinic-stone-the-evolution-of-the-even-shetiyah/08F68027FFAA51698DB0A99E592B4746

Has to do with the midrash about King David lifting the foundation stone that was holding back the waters of the abyss, so he inscribed the Tetragrammaton on a pottery shard and tossed it down, which saved the world from certain destruction by a flood.

And you have to wonder who comes up with these names. SoMa?

Luke 17:37 And they answered and said unto him, Where, Lord? And he said unto them, Wheresoever the body [soma] is, thither will the eagles be gathered together.

17 posted on 06/07/2022 6:52:40 PM PDT by Ezekiel ("Come fly with US". Ingenuity -- because the Son of David begins with Mars ♂️.)
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