Father-son

The strong similarity between the Medieval Kabbalistic systems and the ancient Ugaritic (though admittedly with a lot of confusion as regards the names) suggests that the ancient system may have been preserved by unorthodox Jewish circles, including those that eventually became Christianity, where the idea of God the Father and God the Son is still alive (at least among those Christian faiths that maintain the idea of a Heavenly Mother in one way or anotherwhen the mother has been eliminated by puritanic Ezra-like reformers, the Father and Son cannot remain separate, and God becomes Jesus or Jesus becomes God). The idea that Jesus was originally considered the incarnation of Yawe, son of El, is supported by some evidence: (1) Jesus’ full Hebrew name, Yehoyeshua-“Yehu is salvation”; (2) in the Johannine Apocalypse, the phrase “I am the Alpha and Omega” is attributed to Kyrios (presumably a translation of YHWH, as in the Septuagint) as well as to Jesus; (3) in the Synoptic gospels, Jesus is called the “Son of the God Most High” (Ben El-Elyon) but not once “the Son of the Lord”; (4) Rabbi Roy A. Rosenberg’s recent article on Jewish astrology and messianic expectations (Rosenberg 1972) reveals some fascinating facts about near-eastern beliefs concerning the planets Saturn and Jupiter. For example, in “late Babylonian times they were called ‘the Great Twins’, Jupiter being associated with the color white, and Saturn with black” (1972:107). The antiquity of this notion is evidenced by the phonetical (possibly etymological) similarity of Saturn to shachor and schwarlz.
-- The God Yahweh-Elohim