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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]
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 ...
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 ...
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.
Following this duo were second-tier gods and goddesses, such as Baal, Shamash, Yarikh, Mot, and Astarte, each of whom had their own priests and prophets and numbered royalty among their devotees. [5] [6] The practices of Yahwism included festivals, ritual sacrifices, vow-making, private rituals, and the religious adjudication of legal disputes. [7]
'God of the Covenant') are titles of a god or gods worshiped in Shechem, in ancient Canaan, according to the Bible. The term for "covenant" (Hebrew: ברית, romanized: bərīt) appears also in Ugaritic texts (second millennium BCE) as brt (𐎁𐎗𐎚), in connection with Baʿal, and perhaps as Beruth in Sanchuniathon's work. [1]