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Abi Levitt's avatar

This is so interested. The familiar verses but I'm not sure I've ever read the source before. I'm realising this is one book of the Tanakh that I might not ever have read which just makes it all the more exciting.

I do have a question about the connection to a goddess. I'm not sure whether I want to be worshipping more than one Divine. Yet I also think that cutting down trees or erasing cultures is wrong. And I find myself with mixed feelings regarding the Torah's commandments to destroy idols including trees. And it's bizarre that these famous verses may have been connected to an earlier godess. Not sure what I'm asking just wondering how you reconcile the discovery of polytheistic layers in the text with service of one Divine being. Or perhaps you don't. Would be glad to hear more about this anyway.

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Stephen Bonnlander's avatar

This is very beautiful. Thank you.

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