" Ugaritic texts dating from the 13th century BCE refer to the benevolent smile of the Canaanite deity El.

El appears in Ugaritic, Phoenician and other 2nd and 1st millennium BCE texts both as generic " god " and as the head of the divine pantheon.

Ugaritic texts from Ras Shamra and Enkomi mention Ya, the Assyrian name of Cyprus, that thus seems to have been in use already in the late Bronze Age.

El and Baʿal are often associated with the bull in Ugaritic texts, as a symbol both of strength and fertility.

Certainly some of the Ugaritic texts and Sanchuniathon report hostility between El and Hadad, perhaps representing a cultic and religious differences reflected in Hebrew tradition also, in which Yahweh in the Tanach is firmly identified with El and might be expected to be somewhat hostile to Baʿal / Hadad and the deities of his circle.

Resheph is mentioned in Ugaritic mythological texts such as the epic of Kirta and The Mare and Horon.

In the Ugaritic texts El, the supreme god of the pantheon, resides on Mount Lel ( perhaps meaning " Night ") and it is there that the assembly of the gods meet.

But even before the discovery of the Ugaritic texts some suspected that Hadad-rimmon might be a dying god like Adonis or Tammuz, perhaps even the same as Tammuz, and the allusion could then be to mournings for Hadad such as those which usually accompanied the Adonis festivals.

In the Ugaritic texts Lotan, or possibly another of Yam's helpers, is given the epithets " wriggling serpent " and " mighty one with the seven heads.

To complete the picture we should also mention the eunuch priests of Artemis at Ephesus ; the western Semitic qedeshim, the male “ temple prostitutes ” known from the Hebrew Bible and Ugaritic texts of the late second millennium ; and the keleb, priests of Astarte at Kition and elsewhere.

The Ugaritic language is attested in texts from the 14th through the 12th century BCE.

According to one hypothesis, Ugaritic texts might solve the biblical puzzle of the anachronism of Ezekiel mentioning Daniel at ; it is because in both Ugaritic and the Ancient Hebrew texts, it is correctly Danel.

The phrase bene elohim, usually translated " sons of God ", has an exact parallel in Ugaritic and Phoenician texts, referring to the council of the gods.

( Rahab is an exclusively Hebrew sea-monster ; others, including Leviathan and the tannin, or dragons, are found in Ugaritic texts ; it is not entirely clear whether they are identical with Sea or are Sea's helpers ).

The mountain or summit is referred to as Saphon in Ugaritic texts where the palace of Baal is located in a myth about Attar.

Astarte appears in Ugaritic texts under the name ʻAthtart ', but is little mentioned in those texts.

It is still discussed among scholars of the Ancient Near East whether or not there is clear evidence for a seven-year cycle in Ugaritic texts.

Another important distinction is that in ancient Near East legal codes, or in more recently unearthed Ugaritic texts, an important, and ultimate, role was assigned to the king, whereas in the Law of Ancient Israel, Israel was intended to be a theocracy, not a monarchy.

The Kotharat, or Kotharot, or Kathirat ( various suggested pronunciations of Ugaritic k < u > t </ u > rt ), ' the skilful ones ' were a group of northwest Semitic goddesses appearing in the Ugartic texts as divine midwives.

The Northwest Semitic languages, including Hebrew, differentiated noticeably during the Iron Age ( 1200 – 540 BC ), although in its earliest stages Biblical Hebrew was not highly differentiated from Ugaritic and Amarna Canaanite.

The Ugaritic alphabet is a cuneiform abjad ( alphabet without vowels ), used from around 15th century BCE.

The Ugaritic script is a cuneiform ( wedge-shaped ) abjad used from around either the fifteenth century BCE or 1300 BCE for Ugaritic, an extinct Northwest Semitic language, and discovered in Ugarit ( modern Ras Shamra ), Syria, in 1928.

Gordon is well known for his books on Ugaritic, the ancient language of 14th century ( BC / BCE ) coastal Syria, publishing the first in 1940.

Asherah is generally considered identical with the Ugaritic goddess Athirat ( more accurately transcribed as ).

The Syrian goddess Atargatis ( Semitic form ʻAtarʻatah ) may originally have been equated with Astarte, but the first element of the name Atargatis appears to be related to the Ugaritic form of Asherah's name: Athirat.

Ugaritic, for example, is basically an abjad, but has syllabic letters for.

Here alone is preserved a summary of the writings of the Phoenician priest Sanchuniathon of which the accuracy has been shown by the mythological accounts found on the Ugaritic tables, here alone is the account from Diodorus Siculus's sixth book of Euhemerus ' wondrous voyage to the island of Panchaea where Euhemerus purports to have found his true history of the gods, and here almost alone is preserved writings of the neo-Platonist philosopher Atticus along with so much else.

Taking a more positive position, Mettinger argues in his recent book that the category of rise and return to life is significant for the following deities: Ugaritic Baal, Melqart, Adonis, Eshmun, Osiris and Dumuzi.

‘ Ashtart is entitled ‘ Ashtart-Shem-Ba ‘ al '‘ Ashtart the name of the Lord ', a title also found in an Ugaritic text.

The Late Bronze Age state of Ugarit ( modern Ras Shamra in Syria ) is considered quintessentially Canaanite archaeologically, even though its Ugaritic language does not belong to the Canaanite group proper.

Hadad ( Ugaritic Haddu ) is a Northwest Semitic storm and rain god, cognate in name and origin with the Akkadian god Adad.

This appears to be an attempt to combine two accounts of Hadad's parentage, one of which is the Ugaritic tradition that Hadad was son of Dagon.

In Ugaritic, the root dgn also means grain: in Hebrew dāgān, Samaritan dīgan, is an archaic word for grain.

The Ugaritic language, a Northwest Semitic language, discovered by French archaeologists in 1928, is known almost only in the form of writings found in the ruined city of Ugarit ( modern Ras Shamra ), Syria.

The final consonantal letter of the alphabet, s < sub > 2 </ sub >, has a disputed origin along with both ' appended ' glottals, but " The patent similarity of < i > form </ i > between the Ugaritic symbol transliterated, and the s-character of the later Northwest Semitic script makes a common origin likely, but the reason for the addition of this sign to the Ugaritic alphabet is unclear ( compare Segert 1983: 201-218 ; Dietrich and Loretz 1988 ).

The two goddesses were invariably linked in Ugaritic scripture and are also known to have formed a triad ( known from sculpture ) with a third goddess whose was given the name / title of Qadesh ( meaning " the holy one ").

This role gave her a similarly high rank in the Ugaritic pantheon.

She is found as Ugaritic ʻṯtrt (" ʻAṯtart " or " ʻAthtart "); Phoenician " ʻštrt " ( ʻAshtart ); and Hebrew עשתרת ( Ashtoret, singular, or Ashtarot, plural ), and appears in Akkadian as < sup > D </ sup >, the grammatically masculine name of the goddess Ishtar ; the form Astartu is used to describe her age.

The divine name or epithet Ashima-Yaho ( haShema YHWH ) which is attested in the papyri from the Yahweh temple of Elephantine in Egypt has been connected in both theme and structure with a title of Astarte which appears in the Ugaritic texts as Astarte Name-of-Baal ( e. g., KTU (“ Keilalphabetische Texte aus Ugarit ”) 1. 16. vi. 56 ).

The name is derived from the Northwest Semitic root zbl, common in 2nd millennium BC Ugaritic texts as an epithet ( title ) of the god Baal, as well as in Phoenician and ( frequently ) in biblical Hebrew in personal names.

Yam, from the Canaanite word Yam, ( Hebrew ים ) meaning " Sea ", also written " Yaw ", is one name of the Ugaritic god of Rivers and Sea.

* Yamm, alternative spelling of Yam, the Ugaritic god of Rivers and Sea