the Berasit Hebrew Dictionary

מימ

The 'mim' (also known as “the mayim”) appear to be a group of intelligent beings somehow relating to the elohim and the shemim

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.

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 indeed there appears to be a vast network of isolated deep groundwater which up to 10 km beneath earth's surface¹⁾ that has been trapped there millions of years. 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.²⁾³⁾. 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.”⁴⁾

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