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Mot (Phoenician: 𐤌𐤕 mūt, Hebrew: מות māweṯ, Ugaritic: 𐎎𐎚) was the Canaanite god of death and the Underworld. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] He was also known to the people of Ugarit and in Phoenicia, [ 3 ] where Canaanite religion was widespread.
The pantheon was headed by the god El and his consort Asherah, with other significant deities including Baal, Anat, Astarte, and Mot. Canaanite religious practices included animal sacrifice , veneration of the dead , and the worship of deities through shrines and sacred groves .
As vanquisher of the sea, the Canaanites and Phoenicians regarded Baʿal as the patron of sailors and sea-going merchants. [37] As vanquisher of Mot, the Canaanite death god, he was known as Baʿal Rāpiʾuma (Bʿl Rpu) and regarded as the leader of the Rephaim (Rpum), the ancestral spirits, particularly those of ruling dynasties. [37]
Yam, the sea god and primary antagonist of Baal in the first two tablets of the Baal Cycle; Mot, the underworld god and primary antagonist of Baal in the last two tablets; Anat, sister and major ally to Baal; Athtar, god of the stars; El, the king of the gods, and his wife, Athirat the queen-god and mother of the pantheon. These characters have ...
The god Ea, who originated in Mesopotamia, is well attested in Ugaritic theophoric names. [15] According to Dennis Pardee, Ea in Ugarit he should be understood as the Hurrian form of this deity. [146] Ebrimuša ebrmž [261] Ebrimuša was a god who belonged to the retinue of Hebat. [261] His name can be translated as "lord of justice." [262 ...
In Canaanite religion, the underworld was personified as the god Mot. In Egyptian mythology , the underworld was known as Duat and was ruled by Osiris , the god of the afterlife. It was also the region where the sun (manifested by the god Ra ) made its journey from west (where it sets) to the east (from where it would rise again the next morning).
The Baal Cycle, the most famous of the Ugaritic texts, [1] displayed in the Louvre. The Ugaritic texts are a corpus of ancient cuneiform texts discovered in 1928 in Ugarit (Ras Shamra) and Ras Ibn Hani in Syria, and written in Ugaritic, an otherwise unknown Northwest Semitic language.
Articles relating to the ancient Canaanite religion and the mythology of the Levant. Subcategories This category has the following 7 subcategories, out of 7 total.