What do the symbols that appear in the tetragrammaton mean?

The tetragrammaton is a compendium of the main symbols of Judaism and Christianity, covering the ancient world, the classical age and the Middle Ages. It synthesizes the pagan substratum of the West, esotericism, alchemy, magic and the occult, Christian mysticism, the Jewish Kabbalah and Latin American spirituality. At MeriTomasa I offer you various Tetragrammaton models that you can buy online and share a design faithful to the original.

In short, it is a protection talisman that invokes a large number of symbols in a tiny space. In that sense, it is in itself a small microcosm that synthesizes in its smallness the immensity of the sacred and the universal.

The symbols it contains can be grouped into three large blocks: 1- the circle and the pentagram; 2- the texts and numbers, and 3- the other symbols.

1- The tetragrammaton is formed by a circle containing a pentagram: God and man. In addition, the pentagram is the 5 elements that make up the Earth and at the same time the planets that rule the heavens.

• Circle: the five points of the tetragrammaton draw a circle, also known as a “circle of protection”. The circle represents divinity and its interior is always sacred space. Within the circle, the upper point of the pentagram, which represents the spirit, shelters and controls the four earthly elements (water, fire, earth and air).
• Pentagram: The pentagram represents balance when it is arranged with its top point up, and imbalance when it is represented with its top point down. It's easy: the pentagram draws a person (head, arms, legs): if he is with his feet on the ground, he is a balanced person, sometimes an angel, and that is why the tegragrammaton is always presented in this way. If it were presented feet up, head down, it would mean the opposite: the goat, the devil, and chaos.
• In addition, the five points of the pentagram are attributed the four elements (water, fire, earth and air), governed by the fifth element: the spirit, which occupies the upper point. From top to bottom, clockwise:
• The spirit symbolizes the divine and governs the four elements.
• The water symbolizes emotions and intuition.
• The fire symbolizes courage and daring.
• The earth symbolizes resistance and stability.
• The air represents intelligence and the arts.
• At the same time, along the pentagram we find the symbols of various planets, which in turn are the gods of Greek and Roman mythology:
• In the upper point of the pentagram, which represents the spirit, is the sign of Jupiter, which is similar to a 4, but which is actually the symbol ♃. He is the father of the Olympian gods, son of Saturn, whom he overthrew, and king of the sky and firmament. His attribute is lightning and he is the guardian of the law, defender of truth and protector of justice. The Greeks called him Zeus. For all these reasons, he occupies the upper part of the star, where the spirit resides for the Hebrews and Christians, thus unifying the Abrahamic religions with the Greek and Roman mythologies.
• In the arms of the pentagram we find twice Mars, in the right arm is the classic symbol (such as the man sign ♂) and in the left arm is find the same symbol reversed. Mars is the god of war and represents strength of will and victory. The Greeks called him Ares. The relationship with the planet is easy: Mars is red seen from the Earth, and hence it is related to blood and war.
• Finally, at the foot of the pentagram is the sign for Saturn, which looks like an h but is ♄. The same inverted sign appears on the left foot, as in the case of Mars. Saturn symbolizes magic and the material and is represented as an old man with a white beard and a sickle in his hand, which symbolizes time and antiquity that begins and ends everything. The Greeks called it Uranus. Saturn (the sky) married Rhea (the earth) and had as children the gods of Olympus, including Jupiter, who overthrew him and took in his place the domain of gods and men.
• In addition, there are Venus and Mercury, united at the vertex between the two legs of the pentagram, and therefore in the sex of the person it symbolizes. Mercury's symbol is ☿, which appears above. Venus is the goddess of love and femininity and her symbol is ♀, which appears inverted to join Mercury. Together they represent the union of the masculine and the feminine and therefore the complete humanity. Hence, their interlocking symbols are located in the sex of the pentagram.
• The sun and the moon complete the stars. Both stars have been venerated by pagan cultures since the beginning of time. The sun is masculinity and the masculine power of creation, ying, the vital energy of nature that makes the earth flourish. It is the conscious and rational power. His symbol is ☉ and it is found on the right chest of the pentagram. On the left chest, in the heart of the pentagram, appears the moon, whose symbol is ☽. The moon represents femininity and her creative power. She is the queen of heaven but also mother earth. It is yang. It is fertility, but it is also spirituality and intuition. The sun is the day and the moon is the night. Together, on both sides of the tetragrammaton, they give it the strength and magic of ancient cultures.

2- The tetragrammaton also contains numbers and texts in Greek and Hebrew

Arranged along the circle, we find the word TE TRA GRAM MA TON, which in Greek means “the four letters”. They are the four Hebrew letters יהוה‎, which can be translated as Yahveh and are the sacred name of God that believers are prohibited from pronouncing, out of respect but above all to avoid blasphemy as man is not worthy of even naming God's name, Yahweh. I'll tell you about it in detail in my other post What is the tetragrammaton?

Under TE you will find 1 and 2. They signify the unity of diversity and its creative power. The 1 is the masculine divinity (the cross). The 2 is the feminine divinity (the verb).

Under the TRA we find 1 2 3. They signify the trinity: God, Son and Holy Spirit, or Father, Mother and Son.

In the arms of the star we find four words in Hebrew:

• יהוה‎ are the tetragrammaton, "the four letters", which are the name of God. The four letters are יהוה‎ --yód (י), he (ה), waw (ו) and he (ה‏): Hebrew is read from right to left--, and can be translated into the Latin alphabet with the letters YHVH: in classical Hebrew the vowels are not written, and hence instead of writing "Yahveh", they write "YHVH". This is how it appears in the Torah, the Jewish Bible, which Christians call the Pentateuch since it makes up the first 5 books of the Christian Bible (Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy). Out of respect for God, the ancient Jews were forbidden to pronounce his name, so instead of pronouncing the tetragrammaton they used other formulas such as "Adonai" (Lord), "Elohim" (God) and "HaShem" (The Name) or " Shem Hameforash" (The Special Name).
• Above the heart of the star, appear אָדָם, which are the name of Adam. It symbolizes man and by extension the entire humanity. The three Abrahamic religions (Judaism, Christianity and Islam) consider him the father of humanity, who created God out of dust, in his image and likeness, to rule the Earth. Adam felt alone even being among so many animals of creation. And God said: "It is not good for man to be alone, I am going to make him a helper like him", and created Eve, the first woman, from a rib taken from Adam, so that they would live together in the earthly paradise, the Garden of Eden, with the command to bear fruit and multiply, fill the Earth and govern it.
• We also find כתר, which means Keter, ("Crown" in Hebrew). It is the first sefirah (the first sphere) of the Tree of Life of the Jewish Kabbalah, Keter represents the very essence, timeless and free. It is the genesis of all things. It is the superior light and generator of all the movement of creation. The will. It can be considered as the zero moment, the potential creation, but not expanded. It could be compared to the Big-Bang. In Hinduism, it is understood as the absolute Brahman, the vital principle of all forms of energy and life.
• Finally, we find the letters in “Resh-Tav-Pe”, to the right of the caduceus of Mercury, which translate as “Patar” and mean the verb , the word of God. In fact, Patar and Keter also refer to the four occult sciences: Kabbalah, Magic, Alchemy and Medicine.

3- Finally, the tetragrammaton is an authentic compendium of the symbols of the main Abrahamic religions, of the classical Greek and Roman world, and of its pagan substratum.

In its tiny proportions, the tetragrammaton houses a large number of symbols typical of Judaism, Christianity, the Greek and Roman world, and the pagan substratum. We can find:

• Holy Grail: under the letters “TRA” appears a cup, which symbolizes the Holy Grail: the cup used by Christ at the last supper. After his death and resurrection, Jesus Christ delivers him to Joseph with the order to take him to Britain, where a dynasty of guardians guards him for centuries and becomes one of the protagonists of the Arthurian cycle, which combines Celtic tradition with Christian .
• The scepter or Staff of the Patriarchs: above “GRAM” appears the staff of the patriarchs, which is the rod of Moses that guides the people of Israel towards the promised land. It represents the command and the guide that helps the shepherd to guide his sheep to keep the flock together and not lose direction in life.
• The Flaming Sword represents fire with its wavy blade. It appears in the Bible, when Yahweh expels Adam and Eve from Eden and closes its doors with a flaming sword, or sword of fire, and guardian cherubs to prevent the return of the first man and the first woman to paradise. It is a very present symbol in the major arcana of the Tarot, such as the cards of Justice or The Magician, representative of alchemy and closely related to Freemasonry.
• The Seal of Solomon, under the letters "TON", was given by Yahveh to King Solomon to give him the power to govern demons, jinn and spirits and also the power to speak with the animals. King Solomon, son of King David, is famous for being a wise and just king, and therefore his seal is an amulet or talisman to which magical or esoteric powers such as wisdom, balance, good government and justice are attributed.
• The Seal of Solomon is bordered by the symbol of the Uroboros: a serpent or dragon that devours itself, forming a circle with its body without beginning or end. It symbolizes the eternal return.
• Alpha and Omega, the letters that begin and end the Greek alphabet, capitalize and end the vertical of the pentagram. Together, they symbolize Yahweh, since God is the beginning and he is the end, and before him there was nothing and there will be nothing after him: "I am the Alpha and the Omega, the first and the last" (Revelation 21 ,6).
• About Alpha, the Eye of Horus or Udyat is a symbol from Egyptian mythology that means “he who sees everything”: the eyes of divinity. Horus, son of Osiris, killed by his brother Set, confronts his uncle to avenge the death of his father. During the fight he loses his left eye, but Thoth, god of Wisdom, joins the 6 pieces of that eye and returns it to Horus, who recovers his sight and, in turn, gives it to his father Osiris so that he can resurrect.
• Between Alpha and Omega, we find the Caduceus of Mercury: a winged rod around which two serpents coil. According to Greek mythology, the caduceus was given by Apollo to Hermes as a peace offering. One day, Mercury found two snakes fighting on Mount Cithaeron and tried to separate them with his staff, but they intertwined in the staff, facing each other without harming each other. Hence the power of the caduceus to put mortals to sleep and awaken, attract the souls of the deceased or lead them to the abode of the dead or to the underworlds. According to legend, in addition, the caduceus held the winds and dissipated the clouds, turning everything it touched into gold and transforming darkness into light. It is again a symbol of alchemy and magic, like so many others in the tetragrammaton.

Tetragrammaton Collection by MeriTomasa

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Silver Tetragrammaton Bracelet
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Silver Tetragrammaton Necklace
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Gold plating.

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Gold Tetragrammaton Necklace
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