{"id":2271,"date":"2025-11-13T11:22:49","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T11:22:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maurobiglino.com\/dalla-bibbia-al-mondo\/"},"modified":"2025-11-13T11:53:31","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T11:53:31","slug":"from-the-bible-to-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maurobiglino.com\/en\/from-the-bible-to-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"From the Bible to the world"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row fade_scroll=&#8221;yes&#8221; enable_content_animation=&#8221;yes&#8221; animation_preset=&#8221;Fade In Up&#8221; css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1747930724485{padding-bottom: 25px !important;}&#8221;][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/6&#8243;][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;2\/3&#8243;][vc_column_text el_class=&#8221;abstract&#8221;]What the Bible calls \u201cthe glory of Yahweh\u201d is not unique: similar stories can be found all over the world. From Palestine to Polynesia, from Egypt to Japan, many cultures describe beings descending from heaven amid noise, flames, and clouds. In this article, I relate the biblical kavod to these global memories: a technical rather than mystical language.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/6&#8243;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row enable_content_animation=&#8221;yes&#8221; animation_preset=&#8221;Fade In Up&#8221; css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1747930712862{margin-top: 20px !important;margin-bottom: 50px !important;}&#8221;][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/6&#8243;][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;2\/3&#8243;][vc_video link=&#8221;https:\/\/youtu.be\/Uhl54rDnP2k&#8221; align=&#8221;center&#8221;][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/6&#8243;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row enable_content_animation=&#8221;yes&#8221; animation_preset=&#8221;Fade In Up&#8221; css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1747930770591{margin-top: 20px !important;}&#8221;][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/6&#8243;][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;2\/3&#8243;][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<h2>The \u201cglory\u201d that is not only Yahweh&#8217;s<\/h2>\n<p>Whenever we read about <b>Yahweh descending in fire and thunder<\/b>, we tend to consider it a unique case. But that is precisely the point: <b>it is not unique at all<\/b>. In biblical texts, <i>kav\u00f2d<\/i>\u2014translated as \u201cglory\u201d\u2014indicates a <b>concrete<\/b>, physical presence: light, noise, heat, movement.<\/p>\n<p>The same grammar is found in dozens of cultures that had no direct contact with each other. From <b>Rongomai<\/b>, the god of thunder in New Zealand, described \u201cas a shining star, like a flame of fire,\u201d to the Egyptian god <b>Hor-Hut<\/b>, who destroys his enemies \u201cfrom the heavenly heights in the form of a winged disc\u201d; from the Maya&#8217;s Kukulkan, a luminous serpent descended from the sky, to the Thunderbirds of the Americas, the great thunder birds that bring rain and lightning.<\/p>\n<p>The common features are unmistakable: vertical descent, intense light, noise, ground tremors, wind, foam, fire. It is the same phenomenology that Hebrew texts attribute to Yahweh&#8217;s kav\u00f2d.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/6&#8243;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row enable_content_animation=&#8221;yes&#8221; animation_preset=&#8221;Fade In Up&#8221; responsive_css=&#8221;margin_top_large:50px|margin_bottom_large:20px|margin_bottom_small:30px&#8221;][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/6&#8243;][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;2\/3&#8243;][vc_single_image image=&#8221;2264&#8243; alignment=&#8221;center&#8221;][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/6&#8243;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row enable_content_animation=&#8221;yes&#8221; animation_preset=&#8221;Fade In Up&#8221; css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1747930838361{margin-top: 20px !important;}&#8221;][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/6&#8243;][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;2\/3&#8243;][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<h2>Descent, clouds, and noise: a universal language<\/h2>\n<p>Polynesia preserves explicit memories of \u201c<b>mountains on which the gods landed<\/b>,\u201d while in Egypt the winged solar disc \u201cdescends and destroys\u201d the enemies of the pharaoh. In Greece, <b>Apollo lands on Mount Parnassus in a celestial boat<\/b>; in China, Emperor <b>Yi King<\/b> descends in a <b>silver gondola<\/b>; and in the myths of the Pacific islands, the god <b>Ta&#8217;aroa<\/b> descends from the sky with such a crash that he stirs up the sea into foam.<\/p>\n<p>And in many languages, words meaning \u201c<b>descent<\/b>\u201d or \u201clanding place\u201d survive, such as the Hebrew name <b>Y\u0101red<\/b> (\u201che who descends\u201d), probably a memory of an ancient event perceived as a \u201cdivine descent.\u201d[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/6&#8243;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row enable_content_animation=&#8221;yes&#8221; animation_preset=&#8221;Fade In Up&#8221; responsive_css=&#8221;margin_top_large:50px|margin_bottom_large:20px|margin_bottom_small:30px&#8221;][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/6&#8243;][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;2\/3&#8243;][vc_single_image image=&#8221;2252&#8243; alignment=&#8221;center&#8221;][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/6&#8243;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row enable_content_animation=&#8221;yes&#8221; animation_preset=&#8221;Fade In Up&#8221; css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1747930857330{margin-top: 20px !important;}&#8221;][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/6&#8243;][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;2\/3&#8243;][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<h2>The Thunderbirds and the memory of \u201csky machines\u201d<\/h2>\n<p>Native American legends tell of Thunderbirds, beings that command storms and rain, whose eyes shoot lightning and whose wings produce thunder. Depicted in totems and carvings, these thunderbirds are not abstract symbols: they are descriptions of real aerial phenomena, seen, feared, and passed down through the generations.<\/p>\n<p>William Tsosie, a Navajo archaeologist, recalls his grandparents&#8217; storytelling: \u201c<b>He came with a flash of lightning, producing a supersonic boom<\/b>.\u201d It is direct, concrete language. The same language we recognize in the psalms and prophets, where Yahweh \u201cshakes the mountains,\u201d \u201cadvances through the clouds,\u201d \u201croars like a lion.\u201d[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/6&#8243;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row enable_content_animation=&#8221;yes&#8221; animation_preset=&#8221;Fade In Up&#8221; responsive_css=&#8221;margin_top_large:50px|margin_bottom_large:20px|margin_bottom_small:30px&#8221;][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/6&#8243;][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;2\/3&#8243;][vc_single_image image=&#8221;2261&#8243; alignment=&#8221;center&#8221;][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/6&#8243;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row enable_content_animation=&#8221;yes&#8221; animation_preset=&#8221;Fade In Up&#8221; css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1747930857330{margin-top: 20px !important;}&#8221;][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/6&#8243;][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;2\/3&#8243;][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<h2>From kav\u00f2d to \u201ckav\u00f2d of the gods\u201d<\/h2>\n<p>If we line up these testimonies, the conclusion is simple: <b>the Bible does not describe a unique phenomenon<\/b>, but a local version of an experience shared by distant peoples. Kav\u00f2d is not a spiritual abstraction, but a <b>tangible presence<\/b>\u2014a body, a medium, a force that leaves measurable effects: heat, light, noise, tremors.<\/p>\n<p>This is why I prefer to speak of the \u201cglory of the gods,\u201d in the plural. The same signs\u2014wind, smoke, flames, booms\u2014are found in the lexicon of the Vedas, in Mesoamerican myths, in African songs. The words change, but the phenomenology is the same.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/6&#8243;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row enable_content_animation=&#8221;yes&#8221; animation_preset=&#8221;Fade In Up&#8221; responsive_css=&#8221;margin_top_large:50px|margin_bottom_large:20px|margin_bottom_small:30px&#8221;][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/6&#8243;][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;2\/3&#8243;][vc_single_image image=&#8221;2255&#8243; alignment=&#8221;center&#8221;][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/6&#8243;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row enable_content_animation=&#8221;yes&#8221; animation_preset=&#8221;Fade In Up&#8221; css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1747930857330{margin-top: 20px !important;}&#8221;][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/6&#8243;][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;2\/3&#8243;][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<h2>The forbidden hypothesis and the freedom to ask questions<\/h2>\n<p>Whenever we propose such an interpretation, the reaction is predictable: those who defend the theological or traditional academic interpretation hide behind labels \u2013 \u201canti-scientific,\u201d \u201cconspiracy theorist,\u201d \u201csmoke seller.\u201d But the data remains: identical descriptions from cultures that did not know each other.<\/p>\n<p>The so-called \u201calien hypothesis\u201d is still taboo, but high-profile scholars such as Avi Loeb, dean of Harvard and founder of the Galileo Project, now consider it a working hypothesis to explain unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP). 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animation_preset=&#8221;Fade In Up&#8221; css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1747930857330{margin-top: 20px !important;}&#8221;][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/6&#8243;][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;2\/3&#8243;][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<h2>Conclusion \u2013 From myth to memory<\/h2>\n<article class=\"text-token-text-primary w-full focus:outline-none [--shadow-height:45px] has-data-writing-block:pointer-events-none has-data-writing-block:-mt-(--shadow-height) has-data-writing-block:pt-(--shadow-height) [&amp;:has([data-writing-block])&gt;*]:pointer-events-auto [content-visibility:auto] supports-[content-visibility:auto]:[contain-intrinsic-size:auto_100lvh] scroll-mt-[calc(var(--header-height)+min(200px,max(70px,20svh)))]\" dir=\"auto\" tabindex=\"-1\" data-turn-id=\"9754071b-c0d5-4c95-bdcb-9e8ec4e21e37\" data-testid=\"conversation-turn-72\" data-scroll-anchor=\"false\" data-turn=\"assistant\">\n<div class=\"text-base my-auto mx-auto [--thread-content-margin:--spacing(4)] thread-sm:[--thread-content-margin:--spacing(6)] thread-lg:[--thread-content-margin:--spacing(16)] px-(--thread-content-margin)\">\n<div class=\"[--thread-content-max-width:40rem] thread-lg:[--thread-content-max-width:48rem] mx-auto max-w-(--thread-content-max-width) flex-1 group\/turn-messages focus-visible:outline-hidden relative flex w-full min-w-0 flex-col agent-turn\" tabindex=\"-1\">\n<div class=\"flex max-w-full flex-col grow\">\n<div class=\"min-h-8 text-message relative flex w-full flex-col items-end gap-2 text-start break-words whitespace-normal [.text-message+&amp;]:mt-1\" dir=\"auto\" data-message-author-role=\"assistant\" data-message-id=\"b13d1230-f154-4fbb-87f5-dfbc1e760d50\" data-message-model-slug=\"gpt-5\">\n<div class=\"flex w-full flex-col gap-1 empty:hidden first:pt-[1px]\">\n<div class=\"markdown prose dark:prose-invert w-full break-words light markdown-new-styling\">\n<p>All these stories \u2013 biblical, Egyptian, Greek, Polynesian, Mesoamerican \u2013 seem to describe the same event in different languages: beings descending from the sky, instruments that illuminate and shake, voices that thunder like engines.<\/p>\n<p>The Old Testament, like many other traditions, records what men <b>have seen and told<\/b>, not what they should have believed. The <i>kav\u00f2d<\/i> of Yahweh, the \u2018winged disc\u2019 of Hor-Hut, the American Thunderbirds or the winged serpents of the Maya belong to the same <b>anthropological memory of contact<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p>I continue to argue that we must <b>re-read those texts for what they really say<\/b>, not for what we would like them to say. Because only by bringing them back to their <b>historical and concrete dimension<\/b> can we free them from the cage of myth and perhaps recognize, behind those words, <b>a memory of reality<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p>This is the same thread that I explored, together with Erich von D\u00e4niken, in the book Skies on Fire: a journey through the Bible and the mythologies of the world to show how ancient chronicles, from Jerusalem to Tikal, from Edfu to the Andes, actually recount the same planetary experience\u2014the trace of presences that came from the sky and which the people of that time called \u201cgods.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/6&#8243;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row enable_content_animation=&#8221;yes&#8221; animation_preset=&#8221;Fade In Up&#8221; css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1747930857330{margin-top: 20px !important;}&#8221;][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/6&#8243;][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;2\/3&#8243;][vc_separator color=&#8221;black&#8221; css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1763029245490{margin-bottom: 20px !important;}&#8221;][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<h4>Essential glossary<\/h4>\n<article class=\"text-token-text-primary w-full focus:outline-none [--shadow-height:45px] has-data-writing-block:pointer-events-none has-data-writing-block:-mt-(--shadow-height) has-data-writing-block:pt-(--shadow-height) [&amp;:has([data-writing-block])&gt;*]:pointer-events-auto [content-visibility:auto] supports-[content-visibility:auto]:[contain-intrinsic-size:auto_100lvh] scroll-mt-[calc(var(--header-height)+min(200px,max(70px,20svh)))]\" dir=\"auto\" tabindex=\"-1\" data-turn-id=\"9754071b-c0d5-4c95-bdcb-9e8ec4e21e37\" data-testid=\"conversation-turn-72\" data-scroll-anchor=\"false\" data-turn=\"assistant\">\n<div class=\"text-base my-auto mx-auto [--thread-content-margin:--spacing(4)] thread-sm:[--thread-content-margin:--spacing(6)] thread-lg:[--thread-content-margin:--spacing(16)] px-(--thread-content-margin)\">\n<div class=\"[--thread-content-max-width:40rem] thread-lg:[--thread-content-max-width:48rem] mx-auto max-w-(--thread-content-max-width) flex-1 group\/turn-messages focus-visible:outline-hidden relative flex w-full min-w-0 flex-col agent-turn\" tabindex=\"-1\">\n<div class=\"flex max-w-full flex-col grow\">\n<div class=\"min-h-8 text-message relative flex w-full flex-col items-end gap-2 text-start break-words whitespace-normal [.text-message+&amp;]:mt-1\" dir=\"auto\" data-message-author-role=\"assistant\" data-message-id=\"b13d1230-f154-4fbb-87f5-dfbc1e760d50\" data-message-model-slug=\"gpt-5\">\n<div class=\"flex w-full flex-col gap-1 empty:hidden first:pt-[1px]\">\n<div class=\"markdown prose dark:prose-invert w-full break-words light markdown-new-styling\">\n<ul>\n<li><b>kav\u00f2d (\u05db\u05d1\u05d5\u05d3)<\/b> \u2013 \u201cweight, substance, tangible presence,\u201d improperly translated as \u201cglory.\u201d<\/li>\n<li><strong>Rongomai \/ Thunderbird \/ Hor-Hut<\/strong> \u2013 figures of gods of thunder and fire, described as luminous entities descending from the sky.<\/li>\n<li><b>Y\u0101red (\u05d9\u05e8\u05d3)<\/b> \u2013 Hebrew name from the root <i>y-r-d<\/i>, \u201cto descend\u201d; memory of a \u201cdivine descent.\u201d<\/li>\n<li><b>Galileo Project (Avi Loeb)<\/b> \u2013 university research on unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/6&#8243;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row fade_scroll=&#8221;yes&#8221; enable_content_animation=&#8221;yes&#8221; animation_preset=&#8221;Fade In Up&#8221; css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1747930724485{padding-bottom: 25px !important;}&#8221;][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/6&#8243;][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;2\/3&#8243;][vc_column_text el_class=&#8221;abstract&#8221;]What the Bible calls \u201cthe glory of Yahweh\u201d is not unique: similar stories can be found all over the world. 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