Tetragrammaton
Our title is a Greek word for the God of Israel commonly translated as Yahweh though more strictly referenced as Hashem, “the Name.” This is composed of four letters in Hebrew, yohd, he, waw and he. The four-winged angelic being featured is reminiscent of Ernst Fuchs’ images. It hovers over the Jerusalem Temple destroyed by the Romans in 70 CE, a modest god-imago whose slender body is the sheath of a concealed sword. Word and image thus fall together in an “angelology of words,” an imaginal activity James Hillman recommends seemingly drawing on his Jewish side, an ancestry where Hebrew letters are traditionally regarded as living entities.
