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From: dicconf@Radix.Net (Richard Eney)
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Subject: Re: MDavid: 'Sabazius' Meaning
Date: 29 Nov 2001 23:00:36 -0500
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In article <2RmN7.7869$DD2.88920@typhoon.sonic.net>,
tyaginator  <nagasiva@yronwode.com> wrote:
>Plutarch, believing that the Jews worshipped Dionysus,
>is the most like origin point for the association of
>Sabazius with Tsabaoth (or Sabaoth - a gnostic Archon

Eventually, perhaps, but Sabaoth -- more correctly, Tzabaoth -- means "of
hosts" -- Adonai Tzabaoth is the Hebrew term which came through in the
King James Bible as "Lord of Hosts".  (And we all know what Word is really
written in the Torah where we read "Adonai", right?)

-- Dick Eney