YoohWhoo

**Yoohwhoo** was a female God-like spirit that was a primary subject of Cerebus' extensive, difficult and dense commentaries on *The Book of Moshe*, seemingly identical to the biblical book of Genesis.

## History

Cerebus encountered the "ineffable name of God", which he saw as a series of obscure characters and asked what the symbols represented. He was told "YHWH". He noted that what they appeared to have done was to just remove the syllables. Figuring that they hadn't said which syllables belong, how many and which order, he went with "Yoohwhoo".

As he worked on his commentaries, Cerebus became so furious with Yoohwhoo's actions that he called her a "bitch". Throughout he took the side of God.

## Nature

Yoohwhoo took on many forms in the commentaries.

* Sometimes she was described as a large ball of light in the centre of the earth. Sometimes as representing the earth itself.

* She could speak and act through mere mortals, dictating their behaviour.

* In addition, Yoohwhoo seemed to have a tripartite nature: the he, the she and the it. In spite of this the commentaries most strongly identified Yoohwhoo with femininity.

* Finally, there were also the "little yoohwhoos", identified in the commentaries by their uncapitalized initial 'y'. Some of these were described as "regional" because, amongst other things, they took actions they believed effected the whole world when, in fact, they effected only a part of it. For example, Cerebus says that the Great Flood (of Noah's ark fame) only effected a region of the world but the yoohwhoo believed it to have been worldwide and therefore effecting *all* plants, animals and humans.

* All manifestations of Yoohwhoo feasted on blood, particularly the blood of "mutilated cattle".

* A theme of the commentaries was that mortals took Yoohwhoo to *be* God. Cerebus is at pains to point out that the humans are in error.

### Relationship to God

Yoohwhoo's relationship to God was complex and changeable and, indeed, defining the relationship seemed to be the driving force behind Yoohwhoo's actions.

Yoohwhoo at times sought to "become one flesh" with God (to "get to the hubba-hubba" as Cerebus put it). At other times, Yoohwhoo seemed to wish to define herself as the son (in spite of her femininity) or niece of God.

From Cerebus' reading, Yoohwhoo antagonized God as she seemed to believe that she had the power to get women pregnant, that women have "seed". Cerebus said she was erroneous in this and that "women are just the box that hold[?] the seed". Only God could make women pregnant.

Further, Cerebus said she antagonized God because she was so painfully slow to learn lessons. God was, throughout The Book of Moshe (Genesis), trying to teach Yoohwhoo how he felt about her, what her nature was and how she could *be good*. At one point in the commentaries, Cerebus said that Yoohwhoo made some headway in her decision making skills, only to set things back to square one with a later disastrous choice.

Cerebus charged Yoohwhoo throughout with coming up with "crazy ideas" which God must make come true.

## Dave Sim on Yoohwhoo

* "Of course my suspicion now is always that anything that I can’t account for as coming out of my own imagination I always figure was a “plant” by God to try to “fish in YHWH,” something that I wasn’t remotely aware of in a conscious way, something that came from my being “tapped into” a reality that I was only vaguely aware of. Certainly the idea of rock having a personality which would be implied by all the faces, I imagine, would be very appealing to YHWH since that was supposed to be the Big, Shock Surprise Ending—it turns out that YHWH was Mother Earth all along! Gasp!"

* Sim, when discussing YHWH, will evidently spell it out "Y-H-W-H".

## References

 1. ↑ *Latter Days (phonebook)*
2. ↑ Dave Answers 6 Questons: September 2004
3. ↑ "I was surprised to hear (Dave Sim) pronounces YHWH exactly as Y-H-W-H (I knew he didn't go with the "yoowhoo" one, but I just assumed he went with the common "yahweh" one)", Phone interview with Dave Sim