By Jove! You worship Jupiter.
God the Father
The name for the Roman God "Jupiter" comes from the Greek "Zeus Pateras" or in Latin "Dies Pater," or in the more familiar Spanish, "Dios Padre," or in the even more familiar English, "God the Father."
They happened to have a father god, big deal.
But you could also call him Jehovah.
From Jove to Jehovah:
I've read in books people say "by Jove" in place of "by God." Turns out "Jove" is the shortened form of "Jupiter," the equivalent of "God" in place of "God the Father." P and V are equivalent letters. P = V. Also, V is equivalent to U, and the Hebrew letter vau. P = V = U = ו (vau).
J is equivalent to I and Y, and P to V to U, so Jove could be spelled IOUE or YOUE, pronounced Yohweh or Yahweh. Not bad. Romans worshipped Jehovah.
From Jehovah to Jove
It also works from Hebrew to Latin.
Jehovah is also spelled Yahweh or Jahweh, because J = I = י (yod, Hebrew). H (het, ה , Hebrew) here is not "ha" or "he" but "ah" or "eh" as in yAHwEH. It's closer to a vowel than a consonant.
In Hebrew Jehovah is spelled (from left to right) הוהי, in English this could be IHVH, or JHVH, pronounced Johveh, or Jove, though we prefer to through in a "ho" instead of a "oh," as in J'hovah instead of Johveh.
Jews and Christians worship Jove/Jupiter. There you go.
No God But God
They used the same name for their supreme being, so all I've proven is that their word for God is etymologically related. This isn't too surprising since the Romans got their alphabet from the Greeks who got it from the Phoenicians and the Jews. Some vocab probably came along with it. And a person who says, "I believe in God" can have some very different ideas about God than you do.
But I think that Romans, Greeks, and Hebrews (and Egyptians, and Europeans, and American Indians) shared common beliefs, though each civilization apostatized in its own way. Because I think that true teachings about God the Father were handed down from Adam to his children, and from Noah to his children.
Of Noah's children, the Jews, or semites, came from Shem. The Romans came from Japheth, or Iapetus in Latin. Ham supposedly settled Egypt. I have no idea where the Chinese came from.
As the old missionary discussions used to word it: "Most people worship a supreme being, though they call Him by different names." The names aren't so different after all.
Honorary Degree Please
I thought I should receive a Nobel for this, until I found the equivalent on Wikipedia:
"Older forms of the deity's name in Rome were Djeus-pater (“day/sky-father”), then Diéspiter. Djeus is the etymological equivalent of Greece's Zeus and of the Teutonics' Ziu, gen. Ziewes. The Indo-European deity is thus the god from which the Greek Zeus, the Vedic[Indian] Dyaus Pita, and the Germanic *Tiwaz"
And apparently Catholics talk about this sort of thing all the time.
"It has been said by Vatke (Die Religion des Alten Test., 1835, p. 672) and J.G. Müller (Die Semiten in ihrem Verhältniss zu Chamiten und Japhetiten, 1872, p. 163) that the nameJahveh is of Indo-European origin. But the transition of the Sanscrit root, div—the Latin Jupiter-JovisDiovis), the Greek Zeus-Dios, the Indo-European Dyaus into the Hebrew form Jahveh has never been satisfactorily explained."
I thought it was interesting.
The name for the Roman God "Jupiter" comes from the Greek "Zeus Pateras" or in Latin "Dies Pater," or in the more familiar Spanish, "Dios Padre," or in the even more familiar English, "God the Father."
They happened to have a father god, big deal.
But you could also call him Jehovah.
From Jove to Jehovah:
I've read in books people say "by Jove" in place of "by God." Turns out "Jove" is the shortened form of "Jupiter," the equivalent of "God" in place of "God the Father." P and V are equivalent letters. P = V. Also, V is equivalent to U, and the Hebrew letter vau. P = V = U = ו (vau).
J is equivalent to I and Y, and P to V to U, so Jove could be spelled IOUE or YOUE, pronounced Yohweh or Yahweh. Not bad. Romans worshipped Jehovah.
From Jehovah to JoveIt also works from Hebrew to Latin.
Jehovah is also spelled Yahweh or Jahweh, because J = I = י (yod, Hebrew). H (het, ה , Hebrew) here is not "ha" or "he" but "ah" or "eh" as in yAHwEH. It's closer to a vowel than a consonant.
In Hebrew Jehovah is spelled (from left to right) הוהי, in English this could be IHVH, or JHVH, pronounced Johveh, or Jove, though we prefer to through in a "ho" instead of a "oh," as in J'hovah instead of Johveh.
Jews and Christians worship Jove/Jupiter. There you go.
No God But God
They used the same name for their supreme being, so all I've proven is that their word for God is etymologically related. This isn't too surprising since the Romans got their alphabet from the Greeks who got it from the Phoenicians and the Jews. Some vocab probably came along with it. And a person who says, "I believe in God" can have some very different ideas about God than you do.
But I think that Romans, Greeks, and Hebrews (and Egyptians, and Europeans, and American Indians) shared common beliefs, though each civilization apostatized in its own way. Because I think that true teachings about God the Father were handed down from Adam to his children, and from Noah to his children.
Of Noah's children, the Jews, or semites, came from Shem. The Romans came from Japheth, or Iapetus in Latin. Ham supposedly settled Egypt. I have no idea where the Chinese came from.
As the old missionary discussions used to word it: "Most people worship a supreme being, though they call Him by different names." The names aren't so different after all.
Honorary Degree Please
I thought I should receive a Nobel for this, until I found the equivalent on Wikipedia:
"Older forms of the deity's name in Rome were Djeus-pater (“day/sky-father”), then Diéspiter. Djeus is the etymological equivalent of Greece's Zeus and of the Teutonics' Ziu, gen. Ziewes. The Indo-European deity is thus the god from which the Greek Zeus, the Vedic[Indian] Dyaus Pita, and the Germanic *Tiwaz"
And apparently Catholics talk about this sort of thing all the time.
"It has been said by Vatke (Die Religion des Alten Test., 1835, p. 672) and J.G. Müller (Die Semiten in ihrem Verhältniss zu Chamiten und Japhetiten, 1872, p. 163) that the nameJahveh is of Indo-European origin. But the transition of the Sanscrit root, div—the Latin Jupiter-JovisDiovis), the Greek Zeus-Dios, the Indo-European Dyaus into the Hebrew form Jahveh has never been satisfactorily explained."
I thought it was interesting.
Augustine of Hippo wrote around 400 that "Varro was rightly writing that the Jews worship the god Jupiter" (De consensu evangelistarum I:22)
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