=====mim=====
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 root word [[mi]] appears to refer to "water", so the literal translation of the 'mim' would yeild "the Water People" or "the Aquatic Ones". 

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.


==== 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".

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.
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)).

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]], NOT 'mim'

This page is part of a series - see [[im]] backlinks for a dynamic list
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