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t. e. Canaanite religion was a group of ancient Semitic religions practiced by the Canaanites living in the ancient Levant from at least the early Bronze Age to the first centuries CE. Canaanite religion was polytheistic and in some cases monolatristic. It was influenced by neighboring cultures, particularly ancient Egyptian and Mesopotamian ...
A prayer to the god Enlil. Public devotions Further information: Mesopotamian temple Each Mesopotamian city was home to a deity, and each of the prominent deities was the patron of a city, and all known temples were located in cities, though there may have been shrines in the suburbs. The temple itself was constructed of mud brick in the form of a ziggurat, which rose to the sky in a series of ...
Yahweh[ a ] was an ancient Levantine deity, the national god of the Israelite kingdoms of Israel and Judah, [ 4 ] and later the god of Judaism and its other descendant Abrahamic religions. Though no consensus exists regarding the deity's origins, [ 5 ] scholars generally contend that Yahweh is associated with Seir, Edom, Paran and Teman, [ 6 ...
Canaanite religion#Deities. Categories: Middle Eastern deities. Lists of deities.
Elyon. Elyon or El Elyon (Hebrew: אֵל עֶלְיוֹן ʼĒl ʻElyōn), is an epithet that appears in the Hebrew Bible. ʾĒl ʿElyōn is usually rendered in English as "God Most High", and similarly in the Septuagint as ὁ Θεός ὁ ὕψιστος ("God the highest"). The title ʿElyōn is a common topic of scholarly debate ...
v. t. e. Mot (Phoenician: 𐤌𐤕 mūt, Hebrew: מות māweṯ, Arabic: موت mawt) 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 main source of information about Mot in Canaanite mythology comes from the texts discovered ...
e. Canaanism was a cultural and ideological movement founded in 1939, reaching its peak among the Jews of Mandatory Palestine during the 1940s. It has had a significant effect on the course of Israeli art, literature and spiritual and political thought. Its adherents were called Canaanites (Hebrew: כנענים). The movement's original name ...
In religious texts, Ba‘al /Hadad is the lord of the sky who governs rain and crops, master of fertility and protector of life and growth. His absence brings drought, starvation, and chaos. Texts of the Baal Cycle from Ugarit are fragmentary and assume much background knowledge.