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Yahweh was actually the old god of the harvest and wine I believe. Before the Jewish Pantheon shrunk to one god only. So Yahweh was similar to Dionysus at one point. There are still remnants and mentions of the other gods in the old testament, like Yahweh's wife Ashira and Baal who I think was an underworld god. Also funny that in the old testament, god talks about other gods as if they're real but weak or bad, doesn't deny they exist.
I recall Yahweh being described as a storm god, but gods often wear many hats. Storms can affect harvests a great deal.
The version I heard he was a war god and killed the rest of his pantheon, then forbade his followers from even speaking of the other gods. This may have been modern fanfiction though, i've never gone back to figure out where I read that from.
I don't think that's from anything official, but it's a cool narrative to explain his ascension from polytheistic to monotheistic god! And it fits with how he acts in the bible.
Where’s Rick Riordan to novelize this!
I thought it was a water-source deity? At least 2 of us would make slightly worse christians lol.
Probably all of the above at one time or another.
I mean, literally all of you would be above par....
I saw that Yahweh could be a smith/fire god and became the most powerful deity because of the importance of the copper in the era.
Yahweh was a storm/raiding god fairly similar to, and later competing with and overtaking, Ba'al in the same domain but from the northwest (IIRC) semitic pantheon. The YouTube channel Esoterica has some great vids about it.
I remember a theory that Dionysus is the Christian god in disguise.
There's also a theory about Loki being the same.
I don't remember the details but these theories make more sense to me than the actual religions
To me it's crazy that the Aztecs had a trickster god of mischief who would shape shift into a Fox. And across the planet we have Loki.
Many old religions were essentially created by mathematical scholars in the past who had similar ideas about shapes and symbolism. Some may disagree, but that's what I think anyway.