List of Canaanite deities

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El depicted with two lions representing the planet Venus on the back of the handle of the Gebel el-Arak Knife

A list of deities in Canaanite religion.

  • Anat, virgin goddess of War and Strife, mate and sister of Ba'al Hadad
  • Asherah or Athirat "walker of the sea", mother Goddess, wife of El (also known as Elat), known after the Bronze Age as Asherah
  • Astarte, a possibly androgynous divinity associated with Venus
  • Baalat (or Baalit), the wife or female counterpart of Baal (also Belili)
  • Ba'al Hadad, a storm god who superseded El as head of the Pantheon
  • Baal-Hammon, god of fertility and renewer of all energies in the Phoenician colonies of the Western Mediterranean
  • Dagon, god of crop fertility, usually described as father of Hadad
  • El Elyon (meaning "God Most High") or El
  • Eshmun or Baalat Asclepius, god of healing (or goddess)
  • The Kathirat (or the Kotharat), goddesses of marriage and pregnancy
  • Kothar, Hasis, the skilled, god of craftsmanship
  • Lotan, serpent ally of evil,Yam
  • Melqart, king of the city, the underworld and the renewing cycle of vegetation in Tyre
  • Molech, god of fire
  • Mot, god of death
  • Nikkal, goddess of orchards (especially pomegranate), lover of Yarikh
  • Qadeshtu, Holy One, goddess of love
  • Resheph god of plague and healing
  • Shalim and Shachar
  • Shamayim, the god of the heavens
  • Shapash, also transliterated Shapshu, goddess of the sun; sometimes equated with the Mesopotamian sun god Shemesh
  • Shemesh (in Ugarit the goddess Shapshu), Sun god[1] (or goddess, its gender is disputed)[2]
  • Yam, also called Yam-nahar (meaning Judge Nahar)
  • Yarikh god of the moon, lover of Nikkal

See also

References

  1. Johnston, Sarah Isles, Religions of the Ancient World: A Guide. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. ISBN 0-674-01517-7. P. 418
  2. Some authorities consider Shemesh to be a goddess, see Wyatt, Nick, There's Such Divinity Doth Hedge a King, Ashgate (19 Jul 2005), ISBN 978-0-7546-5330-1 p. 104 [1]