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The Tetragrammaton is the four-letter Hebrew theonym יהוה‎ (transliterated as YHWH), the name of God in the Hebrew Bible. The four letters, written and read from right to left (in Hebrew), are yodh, he, waw, and he. The name may be derived from a verb that means "to be," "to exist," "to cause to become," or "to come to pass." While there is no consensus about the structure and etymology of the name, the form Yahweh is now accepted almost universally, though the vocalization Jehovah continues to have wide usage.

The books of the Torah and the rest of the Hebrew Bible except Esther, Ecclesiastes, and (with a possible instance of the short form יה‎ in verse 8:6) the Song of Songs contain this Hebrew name. Observant Jews and those who follow Talmudic Jewish traditions do not pronounce יהוה‎ nor do they read aloud proposed transcription forms such as Yahweh or Yehovah.

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This month in history The Hieronymus Bosch Tarot 1 November - The Archbishop of Capua sends a letter to Nicolaus Copernicus asking him to explain his heliocentric hypothesis. (1536) 1 November - Nicholas II becomes Tsar of Russia. (1894) 1 November - The young adult novel Eyes of the Tarot is first published by Bantam books. (1983) 4 November - A church of Santería presents oral arguments in the United States Supreme Court affirming its right to perform animal sacrifice. (1992) 4 November - The mummy of Tutankhamen is moved back into his original tomb. (2007) 8 November - Gospel riots: Bloody clashes take place in Athens following the translation of the Gospels into demotic Greek. (1901) 9 November - Major Edward Grant commits suicide in Boleskine House in Aleister Crowley's former bedroom. (1960) 10 November - A Goddess of Reason is proclaimed by the French Convention at the suggestion of Pierre Gaspard Chaumette. (1793) 10 November - American astrologer and author Evangeline Adams dies. (1932) 11 November - Paracelsus, Swiss-German physician, botanist, astrologer, and occultist is born. (1493) 11 November - Astronomer Tycho Brahe observes a supernova in the constellation Cassiopeia. (1572) 13 November - The occult horror film As Above, So Below is released in theaters. (2014) 15 November - Ivan the Terrible murders his son in an insane rage. (1581) 16 November - LSD is first synthesized by Albert Hofmann from ergotamine at the Sandoz Laboratories in Basel. (1938) 16 November - The soundtrack for occult horror film The Ninth Gate is released. (1999) 17 November - Mary I of England dies of natural causes. (1558) 18 November - Aleister Crowley is initiated in the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. (1898) 20 November - Occultist and author Samuel L. MacGregor Mathers dies. (1918) 22 November - Pope Clement V issues the papal bull Pastoralis Praeeminentiae which instructed all Christian monarchs in Europe to arrest all Knights Templar and seize their assets. (1307) 22 November - French alchemist Nicolas Flamel writes his final will. (1416) 26 November - Vlad the Impaler defeats Basarab Laiota with the help of Stephen the Great and Stephen V Báthory and becomes the ruler of Wallachia for the third time. (1476) 26 November - Egyptologist Howard Carter first peers inside the tomb of Tutankhamen. (1922) 27 November - Polymath, author, and occultist Athanasius Kircher dies. (1680) 29 November - The Holy Mountain premieres in New York City. (1973) 30 November - The Hieronymus Bosch Tarot is first published by Bloodstone Studios. (2020)

Featured image Qebehsenuef is one of the four sons of Horus, along with Hapy, Duamutef, and Imsety. Qebehsenuef is usually portrayed with the head of a falcon. In a funerary context, he was responsible for protecting the intestines of mummified people. As ruler of one of the four cardinal directions, Qebehsenuef was associated with the west. Although Qebehsenuef is most prominently found in funerary context as a canopic jar, he is possibly more closely associated with the Egyptian decans. Dutch Egyptologist Maarten Raven argues that the four sons originated as celestial deities, given that the Pyramid Texts frequently connect them with the sky and that Horus himself was a sky deity. Photo credit: The Metropolitan Museum (More Images)

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