The Religion of the Canaanites

1. The Religion of the Canaanites

5. Anat, virgin goddess of war and strife, sister and putative mate of Ba'alHadad Athirat, "walker of the sea", Mother Goddess, wife of El (also known as Elat and after the Bronze Age as Asherah) Athtart, better known by her Greek name Astarte, assists Anat in The Myth of Ba'al Baalat or Baalit, the wife or female counterpart of Baal (also Belili) Ba'alHadad, storm god, perhaps superseded El as head of the Pantheon Baal Hammon, god of fertility and renewer of all energies in the Phoenician colonies of the Western Mediterranean Dagon, god of crop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 and grain, father of Baal or Hadad El Elyon (lit. God Most High) and El; also transliterated as Ilu Eshmun, god, or as Baalat Asclepius, goddess, of healing Kotharat, goddesses of marriage and pregnancy KotharwaHasis, the skilled, god of craftsmanship Lotan, serpent ally of Yam Melqart, king of the city, the underworld and cycle of vegetation in Tyre Molech or Moloch, putative god of fire[4] Mot or Mawat, god of death (not worshiped or given offerings) Nikkal-wa-Ib, goddess of orchards and fruit Qadeshtu, lit. "Holy One", putative goddess of love, modernly thought to be a sacred prostitute, although there is no evidence of sacred prostitution in ancient Canaanite cities Resheph, god of plague and of healing Shalim and Shachar, twin gods of dawn and dusk Shamayim, the god of the heavens Shapash, also transliterated Shapshu, goddess of the sun; sometimes equated with the Mesopotamian sun god Shemesh[5] whose gender is disputed[6] Yahweh or Yah, for a short time, a son of El and brother of Baal, sometimes married to Asherah. Yam-nahar or Yaw, also called Judge Nahar Yarikh, god of the moon and husband of Nikkal