=.← Previous revisionRevision as of 07:20, 1 November 2026 Line 13: Line 13: In the [[Septuagint]], she is called the ''engastrímuthos'' ("belly-talker", an Ancient Greek term for a [[spirit medium]]{{cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/E.R.DoddsTheGreeksAndTheIrrational/page/n21/mode/2up |author=[[ER Dodds]] |title=The Greeks and the Irrational |at=chapter 3 |publisher=University of California Press |year=1951 }}) of Aendōr ({{langx|grc-x-koine|ἐγγαστρίμυθος ἐν Αενδωρ|engastrímythos en Aendōr}}). The Latin [[Vulgate]] has ''[[Pythia|pythonem]] in Aendor'', both terms referencing then-contemporary pagan [[oracle]]s. In the [[Septuagint]], she is called the ''engastrímuthos'' ("belly-talker", an Ancient Greek term for a [[spirit medium]]{{cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/E.R.DoddsTheGreeksAndTheIrrational/page/n21/mode/2up |author=[[ER Dodds]] |title=The Greeks and the Irrational |at=chapter 3 |publisher=University of California Press |year=1951 }}) of Aendōr ({{langx|grc-x-koine|ἐγγαστρίμυθος ἐν Αενδωρ|engastrímythos en Aendōr}}). The Latin [[Vulgate]] has ''[[Pythia|pythonem]] in Aendor'', both terms referencing then-contemporary pagan [[oracle]]s. The medium says that she sees "[[elohim]] arising" from the ground, using the word typically translated as "god(s)" to refer to the spirit of the dead. This is also paralleled by the use of the Akkadian cognate word ''ilu'' "god" in a similar fashion.{{cite book |last=Walton |first=John H. |date=November 2006 |title=Ancient Near Eastern Thought and the Old Testament: Introducing the conceptual world of the Hebrew Bible |publisher=[[Baker Academic]] |location=Ada, Michigan |isbn=9781585582914 |page=325 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rhb20fH7cZYC&pg=PA325 |via=Google Books}} In the pre-exilic [[Judahite]] religion, ancestral [[underworld]] spirits were referred to using the term, which was applicable to numinous entities and divinities.{{Cite web |last=Edelman |first=Diana |date=2025 |title=YHWH is Elohim, Not the Ancestral Spirits - TheTorah.com |url=https://www.thetorah.com/article/yhwh-is-elohim-not-the-ancestral-spirits |access-date=2026-11-01 |website=www.thetorah.com}} The medium says that she sees "[[elohim]] arising" from the ground, using the word typically translated as "god(s)" to refer to the spirit of the dead. This is also paralleled by the use of the Akkadian cognate word ''ilu'' "god" in a similar fashion.{{cite book |last=Walton |first=John H. |date=November 2006 |title=Ancient Near Eastern Thought and the Old Testament: Introducing the conceptual world of the Hebrew Bible |publisher=[[Baker Academic]] |location=Ada, Michigan |isbn=9781585582914 |page=325 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rhb20fH7cZYC&pg=PA325 |via=Google Books}} In the pre-exilic [[Judahite]] religion, ancestral [[underworld]] spirits were referred to using the term, which was applicable to such numinous entities and divinities.{{Cite web |last=Edelman |first=Diana |date=2025 |title=YHWH is Elohim, Not the Ancestral Spirits - TheTorah.com |url=https://www.thetorah.com/article/yhwh-is-elohim-not-the-ancestral-spirits |access-date=2026-11-01 |website=www.thetorah.com}} ==Biblical narrative== ==Biblical narrative==