Who are the gods in Job 41:25?

I am willing to share an example but it's not really about other gods, as much as the extent to which astrological/astronomical content is hidden in the bible. In this case, technical information about nature was preserved in the story of one of Israel Judges. I've also thought that I might want to publish a book on this and other related topics, it's not anything published so far or that I have been able to find in any academic journal. So you'll just have to fact check me yourself by trying this in Google Earth or similar software where you can model the rising and setting of the sun across a map with geography.

Samson. Samson's stories center around the Tribal Area of Dan on the border of Philistia and The Judean foothills. Samson's name שמשן, includes the name of Solar diety "Shamesh". Samson grew up in Mahaneh-dan, between Zorah and Eshtaol. This is right next to a rather important, but unmentioned religious site called Bet-Shamesh, which was a temple to Shamesh. Due east of Bet Shamesh is a mountain called the Mount of Ascent (it's name on Google Earth is הר יעלה). It's probably it's original name, because on both equinoxes the sun is seen to rise directly up from it, making it a functional calendar marker. There is also a small hill just due west of Tell Bet Shamesh on the other side of Y'ishi, that would have served well as a high place for a sunset marker "high place", the sun would have set there on equinoxes.

I'm of the opinion that the story of Samson informs us of two other locations that are important for a solar calendar year, Timna and Gaza, which are Northwest and Southwest of Bet Shamesh.

Samson is married and holds a feast in Timnah. Wedding feasts are typically a Summer type event, during the summer solstice the sun sets at it's northern point (Solar Northwest). If you are observing from Bet Shamesh this is the direction of Timnah (Tel Batash). On the winter solstice the sun sets in the direction of Gaza (Solar Southwest), there are two stories of Samson in Gaza. 1) Visiting the prostitute and stealing the gates at midnight, and carrying the gates due East toward Hebron. The passing of the sun through gates to the underworld is an astrological theme present in other mythologies. 2) Samson's death and destruction of Dagan's Temple in Gaza. Winter is dark, darkness and short days evoke conceptions of death.

If you were to go to Tel Bet Shamesh and set markers in the direction of these two towns, I'm rather confident you would have yourself a functioning solar calendar and could track the course of the year based on the shifting location of sunset, and know when the seasons were turning.

Samson's story is also filled with literary and fire imagery, Robert Altar does a much better job explaining that in Art of Hebrew Narrative than I will.

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