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Golem

Powers - Evocation

 Card 044

Battle Area:

  1. Water = 10
  2. Earth = 10
  3. Heaven = 00

Attack and Defense

  1. Wisdom = 00
  2. Dexterity and Strength = 50
  3. Powers =10

  4. Fire = 00

 

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Golem

Creatures - Golem

 

Golem is a mythical artificial being, associated with the mystical tradition of Judaism, particularly the Kabbalah, which can be brought to life through a divine process.

The golem is a possible inspiration for other artificially created beings, such as the homunculus in alchemy and the modern novel Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley.

In Jewish folklore, the golem (גולם) is an animate being that is made of inanimate material, often seen as a stone giant. In modern Hebrew the word golem means "dumb," "imbecile," or "stupid." The name is a derivation of the word gelem (גלם), which means "raw material".

 

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The word golem in the Bible is used to refer to an embryo or incomplete substance: Psalm 139: 16 uses the word gal'mi, meaning "my still reportable substance".

The first stories of golems are older than Judaism. Adam is described in the Talmud (Treatise Sanhedrin 38b) initially created as a golem when his dust was "mixed in a piece without form".

Like Adam, all golems are created from the mud. They were creations of holy people and very close to God. A holy person was a person who struggled to draw near to God, and by this struggle gets some of the divine wisdom and power. One of these powers is the creation of life. However holy the person was, however, his creation would always be only a shadow of any creation of God.

From early on the notion was developed that the main deficiency of the golem was its inability to speak. In Sanhedrin 65b, it is described as Raba created a golem using the Sefer Yetzirah. He sent the golem to Rav Zeira, who spoke with the golem but he did not respond. Rav Zeira said:

"I see you were raised by one of our colleagues, go back to the dust."

Having a golem as a servant was considered to be the highest symbol of wisdom and holiness, and there are many tales of golems linked to prominent rabbis throughout the Middle Ages.

Other attributes of the golems were being added through the ages. In several short stories, the golem has written magical or religious words that make it lively. Writing one of the Names of God on your forehead, a paper affixed to your forehead or a plaque of clay under your tongue, or even writing the word Emet (אמת, "truth" in Hebrew) on your forehead, are examples of some of these golem animation formulas. By erasing the first letter of Emet (from left to right, since that is how the Hebrew is written), forming Met (מת, "dead" in Hebrew), the golem was undone.

 

 

 

 


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