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 מימ
-The 'mim' (also known as "the mayim") appear to be a group of intelligent beings somehow relating to the [[elohim]] and the [[semim]]. It is possible that the 'mim' should be considered a "super-root" of [[semim]] and [[iomim]].
+The 'mim' (also known as "the Mayim") appear to be a group of intelligent beings somehow relating to the [[elohim]] and the [[semim]]. It is possible that the 'mim' should be considered a "super-root" of [[semim]] and [[iomim]].
-The root word [[mi]] appears to refer to "water", so the literal translation of the 'mim' would yeild "the Water People" or "the Aquatic Ones".
+The root word [[mi]] appears to refer to "water", so the literal translation of the 'mim' yields "the Water People" or "the Aquatic Ones". Early contextual evidence indicates a possible interpretation of aquatic micro-organisms.
-However, textual usage seems to indicate a gradual semantic drift away from a literal meaning of the suffix and toward a general usage of 'mim' to indicate water itself rather than any aquatic lifeforms, along with a variance in spellings including 'mimi' and several other variations.
+However, further contextual usage seems to indicate a gradual semantic drift over time, away from a literal meaning of the suffix and toward a general usage of 'mim' to indicate water itself rather than any aquatic lifeforms.
 ==== Oceans Underground ====
-There is some evidence that the ancient Hebrews associated 'mim' with a watery underground realm, similar to the Sumerian concept of "the apsu".
+There is some evidence that the ancient Hebrews associated 'mim' with a watery underground realm, similar to the Sumerian concept of "the apsu", and the early mesoamerican traditions of "xibulba".
-Recent scientific discoveries have revealed that there does indeed appear to be a vast network of isolated deep groundwater which up to 10 km beneath earth's surface((https://www.livescience.com/planet-earth/geology/how-much-water-is-in-earths-crust)) that has been trapped there for millions or even billions of years((https://www.livescience.com/32028-oldest-water-found-underground.html)). The amount of water is huge, approximately 4 percent as large as all Earth's oceans combined, and more than all the frozen in the ice sheet that covers Antarctica. A second layer of water is thought to exist at a depth of around 600 km that could potentially be much larger, possibly even larger than the oceans.((https://scitechdaily.com/an-underground-ocean-scientists-discover-water-deep-within-earth/))((“Hydrous peridotitic fragments of Earth’s mantle 660 km discontinuity sampled by a diamond” by Tingting Gu, Martha G. Pamato, Davide Novella, Matteo Alvaro, John Fournelle, Frank E. Brenker, Wuyi Wang and Fabrizio Nestola, 26 September 2022, Nature Geoscience.
+Recent scientific discoveries support the idea, and have in fact revealed that there does indeed appear to be a vast network of isolated deep groundwater which up to 10 km beneath earth's surface((https://www.livescience.com/planet-earth/geology/how-much-water-is-in-earths-crust)) that has been trapped there for millions or even billions of years((https://www.livescience.com/32028-oldest-water-found-underground.html)). The volume of water is estimated to be larger than that of all the water frozen as in the snow and ice that covers Antarctica. A second, much deeper layer of water is thought to exist at a depth of around 600 km that could potentially be much larger, possibly even larger than the earths oceans.((https://scitechdaily.com/an-underground-ocean-scientists-discover-water-deep-within-earth/))((“Hydrous peridotitic fragments of Earth’s mantle 660 km discontinuity sampled by a diamond” by Tingting Gu, Martha G. Pamato, Davide Novella, Matteo Alvaro, John Fournelle, Frank E. Brenker, Wuyi Wang and Fabrizio Nestola, 26 September 2022, Nature Geoscience.
 DOI: 10.1038/s41561-022-01024-y)). In fact, this deep water may be the source of all Earth's surface water. "[It] may have come from within, driven to the surface by geological activity, rather than being deposited by icy comets hitting the forming planet as held by the prevailing theories."((https://www.theguardian.com/science/2014/jun/13/earth-may-have-underground-ocean-three-times-that-on-surface))
-Incredibly, some of these deep aquatic environments are home to living microscopic organisms((https://www.livescience.com/25560-deep-dwelling-microbe-found.html)).
+Incredibly, some of these deep aquatic environments are home to living microscopic organisms((https://www.livescience.com/25560-deep-dwelling-microbe-found.html)). Is it possible that the ancient Hebrew legends contain traces of extremely ancient body of knowledge, possibly carried through these archaic water-dwelling micro-organisms themselves?
-The question now is "how did the ancient Hebrews and Sumerians know about this?"
+Several instances refer to the 'mim' as being clumped up into some kind of blob-like structure called a [[ned]].
-Note that the 17 instances listed [[https://biblehub.com/hebrew/mayim_8064.htm|HERE]] are actually [[semim]]
 This page is part of a series - see [[im]] backlinks for a dynamic list
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