Canaanite Gods and Goddesses

[ariel]

Anat-Daughter of El and Baal's sister, an archer, virgin, and nursemaid to the gracious gods, Anat was called the Lady of Heaven and Mistress of all gods


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Asherah is arguably the most important goddess in the Canaanite pantheon. The prototypical mother of gods and humans and consort of the chief god, El, she is also the mistress of the sea and the land, and protector of all living things. We have long known Asherah from the immense library of thirteenth-century cuneiform tablets found in Syria at the site of Ugarit


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Athtart, Baal's consort, was a benevolent goddess of sexuality, passion, creativity, and fertility, and the chief goddess of Tyre, Sidon and Byblos.

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[ariel]

Baal was one of the most widely worshiped gods in ancient Canaan *, where he was associated with fertility and rain. He was the son of El, the supreme god of the Canaanites

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El, the heavy drinking father and creator of the Canaanite gods, goddesses, and mankind, is also known as the bull

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Mot, The God of death originated in the Northern Levant. He has been worshiped since prehistoric times up until 200 BC

Shapsu is the Canaanite sun goddess, known as the torch of the gods. Shapsu is sometimes El's messenger

Yam was an ancient Canaanite sea and river god who lives in an undersea palace; a dragon, serpent, and Leviathan (Lotan) may have been in his following

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Yarikh is a moon god in Canaanite religion whose epithets are "illuminator of the heavens"', "illuminator of the myriads of stars" and "lord of the sickle". The latter epithet may come from the appearance of the crescent moon. Yarikh was recognized as the provider of nightly dew, and married to the goddess Nikkal, his moisture causing her orchards to bloom in the desert. The city of Jericho bears his name.

[ariel]

Milqart is a Canaanite god known as 'king of the city', the hunter, and 'fire of heaven'. Milqart was the patron god of Tyre. His cult was associated with that of Hercules. Milqart was a dying and rising vegetation god as well as a sea god. Melqart is depicted on a hippocampus.

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Shachar is the Canaanite dawn god. He is the twin brother of Shalim. Shachar and Shalim are one of the first pairs of gracious gods. Their father is El and their mother Athirat or her female companion

Shalim is the Canaanite dusk or sunset god. He is the twin brother of Shachar. Shalim and Shachar are one of the first pairs of gracious gods. Their father is El and their mother Athirat or her female companion.

[ariel]

Attar is the god of the morning star in canaanite mythology

Baalat or Baalit, the wife or female counterpart of Baal







Ba'al-Hamon ("Ruler of a Crowd or Multitude") was the chief god of Carthage. He was a deity of sky and vegetation, depicted as a bearded older man with curling ram's horns.[1] Baʿal Hammon's female cult partner was Tanit.


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[YeshAtid]

Interesting culture :thumb001:

[ariel]

Dagon, god of crop fertility and grain, father of Ba'al Hadad

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Eshmun was a Phoenician god of healing and the tutelary god of Sidon

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[ariel]

Ishat, goddess of fire. She was slain by Anat.[

Kotharat, goddesses of marriage and pregnancy

Lotan, the twisting, seven-headed serpent ally of Yam

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Kothar-wa-Khasis, the skilled, god of craftsmanship

[YeshAtid]

Were they hellenised?

[ariel]

they mostly converted to christianity

[YeshAtid]

they mostly converted to christianity

background of druze and samaritans ?

[ariel]

background of druze and samaritans ?

in israel yes, but in northen levant from canaanite religion to christianity.

[Arbërori]

Very intriguing, thanks for the read love! :kiss:

[YeshAtid]

in israel yes, but in northen levant from canaanite religion to christianity.

Better than backwards arabian islamic culture

[ariel]

Very intriguing, thanks for the read love! :kiss:

:thumb001:

[ariel]

Marqod, also known as Baal-Marqod (Lord of the Dance), was a Phoenician god of healing and dancing. It is unknown if Marqod's association with dancing came as a result of the Phoenician belief that Marqod was the creator of dancing or because dancing was the proper way to worship the deity. This may be evidence that the Phoenicians were the first ancient Near Eastern culture to have a specific deity devoted to dance.

Molech or Moloch, putative god of fire

Nikkal-wa-Ib, goddess of orchards and fruit

Qetesh[pronunciation?] is a goddess adopted into Egyptian mythology from the Canaanite religion, popular during the New Kingdom. She was a fertility goddess of sacred ecstasy and sexual pleasure

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[Smaug]

I only knew about Anat and Baal, not the others, thank you.

So wasn't Anat the Goddess of Love and Baal the God of All Gods?

[YeshAtid]

Was pazuzu canaanite ?

[ariel]

I only knew about Anat and Baal, not the others, thank you.

So wasn't Anat the Goddess of Love and Baal the God of All Gods?

anat is the war and hunting goddess :)

[ariel]

Was pazuzu canaanite ?

no, i think he was assyrian...

[ariel]

Resheph, god of plague and of healing

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Shamayim, (lit. skies) the god of the heavens


Sydyk, the god of righteousness or justice, sometimes twinned with Misor, and linked to the planet Jupiter