Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Hadad (Ugaritic: 𐎅𐎄 ... Adad/Iškur's consort (both in early Sumerian and the much later Assyrian texts) was the grain goddess Shala, ... But Mot, the eater of ...
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.
Anat (/ ˈ ɑː n ɑː t /, / ˈ æ n æ t /), Anatu, classically Anath (/ ˈ eɪ n ə θ, ˈ eɪ ˌ n æ θ /; Ugaritic: 𐎓𐎐𐎚 ʿnt; Hebrew: עֲנָת ʿĂnāṯ; Phoenician: 𐤏𐤍𐤕, romanized: ʿNT; Greek: Αναθ, romanized: Anath; Egyptian: ꜥntjt) was a goddess associated with warfare and hunting, best known from the Ugaritic texts.
Baʿal Hadad, with the help of Anat and Athirat, persuades El to allow him a palace; Baʿal Hadad commissions Kothar-wa-Khasis to build him a palace. King of the gods and ruler of the world seeks to subjugate Mot; Mot kills Baʿal Hadad; Anat brutally kills Mot, grinds him up and scatters his ashes; Baʿal Hadad returns to Mount Zephon
Ashtar-Chemosh, wife of Chemosh and goddess of the Moabites. Astarte, goddess of war, hunting and love. Atargatis, wife of Hadad, goddess of fertility and the chief goddess of northern Syria. Attar, god of the morning star ("son of the morning") who tried to take the place of the dead Baal and failed. Male counterpart of Athtart.
The only sons of El named individually in the Ugaritic texts are Yamm ("Sea"), Mot ("Death"), and Ashtar, who may be the chief and leader of most of the sons of El. Ba'al Hadad is a few times called El's son rather than the son of Dagan as he is normally called, possibly because El is in the position of a clan-father to all the gods.
The goddess Dadmiš is attested in both Ugaritic [128] and Hurrian ritual texts. [129] Dennis Pardee assumes that she was a healing deity. [ 130 ] In god lists she appears in the immediate proximity of Resheph, [ 127 ] and Manfred Krebernik tentatively proposes she was an underworld deity and his spouse. [ 126 ]
Shala (Šala) was a Mesopotamian goddess of weather and grain and the wife of the weather god Adad.It is assumed that she originated in northern Mesopotamia and that her name might have Hurrian origin.