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According to some scholars, the Cherokee’s (a native American people) primary deity, the creator, was called Yo wah or Ye ho waah. [We do have to note, however, that others dispute this as coming from an attempt to show that the American “Indians” were the 10 lost tribes of Israel (a Mormon belief) and thus knew the name Yahweh.]
Yo is the Japanese version of “yang” of the famous yin-yang (Japanese: “in-yo”) relationship of opposites comprising reality. Yo is the active/positive (light)/male principle and in is the passive/negative (shadow)/female principle. Though yo is associated with the male principle, in Japanese first names ending with yo are typically female. In Japanese, “yo” also means “world, society.”
In the language of the Guatemalan Q’eqchí Maya, “yo’ yo” means “living” Yo, The Infinite, Unknowable, Divine Mystery of Existence
Later, when we were trying to think of a good word to use as a placeholder to refer to what some people call God—and what others (who do not believe in or who do not use the word “God”) consider the miraculous, the awesome, or the mind-boggling mysteries of existence—we looked at many possibilities. We could have referred to the Universal Field that emanates (or manifests as) All-that-Is, by using the word “It.” However, “it” denotes something inanimate or often something that is emotionally separated from more personal human experience, something that is often relatively unimportant.

We eventually realized that we could again make use of that single syllable word that we were already using as a pronoun to refer to the divine manifestations called “humans.” So, we were already using “yo” to refer to ourselves, and we knew certain things about the relationship between humans and the Divine Mystery of the larger Universal Field.