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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Xeriar" data-source="post: 252995" data-attributes="member: 4116">Originally Yahweh was a sky/wind god, so if you are going for 'archeological', air/wind/sky (I think these are all valid domains) would be appropriate.  If you really want to go this route, though, you would probably do well to research Judaisms roots a bit further - ie Hinduism.Once you start getting into what is written in the Old Testement, the god Yahweh becomes the LORD G-d YHWH et. al.  IIRC, there are believed to be five main authors of the pentatauch, one of whom also wrote a number of the books of the (rest of the) old testement.The author of Deuteronomy, for example, poses a god who could well have the domains of law, destruction, tyrany and maybe even evil.  No wonder evangelicals say 'you don't need to read it'...The other four are quite thoroughly mixed up.  Generally portfolios will include some mix of vengeance and law.The New Testement can perhaps become the most thoroughly confusing - as there are so many denominations, so many aspects...  To say nothing of groups like the Gnostics, Cathars, and Moslems to throw into the mix with Samaritans and Jews still practicing their old faith.  Add Baha'i on the end, the only way to get your head even more muddled is recognize the ties to Hinduism, and you are set <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":-)" title="Smile    :-)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":-)" /></blockquote>

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