Just a Crazy Thought (prose)

I am struck by the similarity of the Cherokee (Tsalagi, ꮳꮃꭹ) word for "earth," which is "elohi, ꭱꮆꭿ," to the biblical Hebrew word "elohim," usually translated as "God" or "Lord." The Hebrew word, by the way, is plural in form, but we are told that this is an "honorific plural," though I'm not sure that it is found anywhere else in the language.

Now, I am not going to claim that there is any genetic connection between "elohi" and "elohim." To do that would be pseudoscience, and it would be absurd. But let's just imagine for a moment changing every occurrence of "elohim" (which I take to literally mean "gods") to "the earth," or "Mother Earth." Would it not be a better book?

Just a crazy thought.