In religio-mythology, Shem, a derivative of the Hebrew word “shemoneh” (Ѻ), meaning “eight”, is the Judaic recension (Greenberg, 2000) rescript of the Egyptian god paut or group of eight watery-chaos themed gods called the “Ogdoad”. [1]
References
1. Greenberg, Gary. (2000). 101 Myths of the Bible: How Ancient Scribes Invented Biblical History (pg. 75). Source Books.
External links
● Japheth – Wikipedia.