Yahweh, the tribal god
He came to be adopted by the Israelites as their tribal god. He became a human god with voice, thoughts, emotions, and everything else quite like in the fashion of man. Since the tribe was a nomadic one the god too became nomadic and he moved with the tribe in its wanderings. A tent was provided for him as his habitation and he was carried in an arc from place to place by the people
Moses has pictured him after the pattern of the gods of the pagans and many of his attributes were added up later.
He made a covenant with his tribe. The people had to follow his commandments and orders passed though Moses and he, in turn would protect them and crush their enemies.
It was again with the spread of Christianity that this tribal god got elevated to the omnipotent, almighty, universal god perhaps at the hands of St. Paul. Yahweh became the father of Jesus who redeemed mankind and an all loving being which was never the attribute of the original Yahweh. The transformation from a simple storm god to that of the present God took place in a few millenniums.
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