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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 ...
Following is a list of pantheons of deities in specific spiritual practices: . African pantheons; Armenian pantheon; Aztec pantheon; Buddhist pantheon; Berber pantheon; Burmese pantheon
The Canaanite pantheon of gods was known as 'ilhm, [17] the Ugaritic equivalent to elohim. [18] For instance, the Ugaritic Baal Cycle mentions "seventy sons of Asherah". Each "son of god" was held to be the originating deity for a particular people (KTU 2 1.4.VI.46). [19]
In the Canaanite Pantheon, there were three great goddesses and Asherah was one of them along with Astarte and Anath. Asherahs' primary role in the Canaanite religion is Mother Goddess. Asherah was associated with sacred trees, which was repeated over thirty times in the bible, in both Canaanite and Israelite religions.
El (/ ɛ l / EL; also ' Il, Ugaritic: 𐎛𐎍 ʾīlu; Phoenician: 𐤀𐤋 ʾīl; [6] Hebrew: אֵל ʾēl; Syriac: ܐܺܝܠ ʾīyl; Arabic: إل ʾil or إله ʾilāh [clarification needed]; cognate to Akkadian: 𒀭, romanized: ilu) is a Northwest Semitic word meaning 'god' or 'deity', or referring (as a proper name) to any one of multiple major ancient Near Eastern deities.
A minority propose that Baʿal was a native Canaanite deity whose cult was identified with or absorbed aspects of Adad's. [17] Regardless of their original relationship, by the 1st millennium BCE, the two were distinct: Hadad was worshiped by the Aramaeans and Baʿal by the Phoenicians and other Canaanites. [17]
An ancient Semitic religion of the Iron Age, Yahwism was essentially polytheistic and had a pantheon, with various gods and goddesses being worshipped by the Israelites. [2] At the head of this pantheon was Yahweh, held in an especially high regard as the two Israelite kingdoms' national god. [3]
The ancient Canaanites were polytheists who believed in a pantheon of deities, [99] [100] [101] the chief of whom was the god El, who ruled alongside his consort Asherah and their seventy sons.