In recent days, Edgar Allan Wright has asked investigators to examine Abaddon as a place and as a being, with...
In recent days, Edgar Allan Wright has asked investigators to examine Abaddon as a place and as a being, with references to 1 Samuel 28 in the Hebrew Bible and ‘shades’ in Virgil’s Aeneid and Homer’s Odyssey. My comments were getting spread out and long, so I wanted to summarize my research here. Note: as a new investigator, the significance of these observations to the Investigation probably eludes me, but perhaps the more experienced investigators can help spot the connections between this literature and the current state of research. The earliest name for the Pit (or Abyss or Grave – caps used because it is grammatically treated as a proper noun) in the Hebrew texts is Sheol, which is used alone in the Torah and Neviim (Law and Prophets, the first two sections of the Hebrew Bible), and Abaddon (and 1x Abaddo) are introduced in the last, and generally last-written, section: the Kethuvim (Writings). Abaddon almost always in parallel* with Sheol or sometimes qever (the word for a ...