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Suf-Sea

quinta-feira 25 de janeiro de 2024

  

The Red Sea through which the children of Israel had to pass on the exodus from Egypt: in gnostic as well as in Alexandrian-Jewish speculation this was allegorically referred to the exodus of the soul from the body, or from the world, so that the Red Sea came to be a symbol for the dividing waters between this and the other world. By an easy vowel-transition from suf (reed) to sof (end) the Suf-Sea could be interpreted as “sea of the end,” i.e., of death. [Hans Jonas  ]