He is the Canaanite equivalent of the Sumerian Tiamat, the primordial mother goddess.

It has also been suggested that the parallelism between the names of the Sumerian goddess, Inanna, and her West Semitic counterpart, Ishtar, continued in Canaanite tradition as Anath and Astarte, particularly in the poetry of Ugarit.

Israelites of course abstained from pork, but Ahab was married to a Phoenician / Tyrian princess Jezebel, who was one of the most " powerful and notorious women of monarchic times " yet who died of a similarly seemingly random death like her husband, and his capital of Samaria was said to follow Canaanite gods.

A cadastral survey seems also to have been instituted, and one of the documents relating to it states that a certain Uru-Malik, whose name appears to indicate his Canaanite origin, was governor of the land of the Amorites, or Amurru as the semi-nomadic people of Syria and Canaan were called in Akkadian.

The apostasy of the people was rampant, having turned away from God in order to serve the calves of Jeroboam II and Baal, a Canaanite god.

According to Howard Schwartz, " the myth of the fall of Lucifer " existed in fragmentary form in Isaiah 14: 12 and other ancient Jewish literature ; Schwartz claims that the myth originated from " the ancient Canaanite myth of Athtar, who attempted to rule the throne of Ba ' al, but was forced to descend and rule the underworld instead ".

Enlil ( nlin ), ( EN = Lord + LÍL = Storm, " Lord ( of the ) Storm ") was the name of a chief deity listed and written about in Sumerian religion, and later in Akkadian, Hittite, Canaanite and other Mesopotamian clay and stone tablets.

Baal was the Canaanite god responsible for rain, thunder, lightning, and dew.

Settlement was concentrated in cities along the coastal plain and along major communication routes ; the central and northern hill country which would later become the biblical kingdom of Israel was only sparsely inhabited although letters from the Egyptian archives indicate that Jerusalem was already a Canaanite city-state recognising Egyptian overlordship.

The Canaanite city-state system broke down at the end of the Late Bronze period, and Canaanite culture was then gradually absorbed into that of the Philistines, Phoenicians and Israelites.

The process was gradual rather than swift: a strong Egyptian presence continued into the 12th century BCE, and, while some Canaanite cities were destroyed, others continued to exist in Iron I.

Modern Rabbinical Judaism is monotheistic, but its Canaanite religion antecedent in ancient Israel and Judah ( 10th to 7th centuries BC ) was henotheistic.

Several Biblical stories allude to the belief that the Canaanite gods all existed and possessed the most power in the lands that worshiped them or in their sacred objects ; their power was real and could be invoked by the people who patronised them.

John Day argues that the origins of biblical Yahweh, El, Asherah, and Ba ' al, may be rooted in earlier Canaanite religion, which was centered on a pantheon of gods much like the Greek Pantheon.

Jericho's name in Hebrew,, is thought to derive from Canaanite word Reaẖ, though an alternative theory holds that it is derived from the word meaning " moon " ( Yareaẖ ) in Canaanite, since the city was an early centre of worship for lunar deities.

According to carbon dating the Canaanite city ( Jericho City IV ) was destroyed between 1617 and 1530 BCE, but rounded as c. 1550 BCE.

The earliest prehistoric cultures of Lebanon, such as the Qaraoun culture gave rise to the civilization of the Canaanite period, when the region was populated by ancient peoples, cultivating land and living in sophisticated societies during the 2nd millennium BC.

In ancient Canaanite mythology, the morning star is pictured as a god, Attar, who attempted to occupy the throne of Ba ' al and, finding he was unable to do so, descended and ruled the underworld.

The best-known is the Trojan Horse of the Trojan War, and a similar story tells how the Canaanite city of Joppa was conquered by the Egyptians in the 15th century BC.

Yahweh, however, was not a Canaanite god, and modern scholars see him originating in Edom, the region south of Judah.

If Yahweh was not a Canaanite god, this raises the question of where he originated and how he became the national god of Israel and Judah in Iron Age II ( 1000-586 ).

Goddesses of the Canaanite religion: Ba ` alat Gebal, Astarte, Anat.

The deities they worshipped were Baal, Astarte, and Dagon, whose names or variations thereof appear in the Canaanite pantheon as well.

According to the Hebrew Bible, the Jebusites ( Ybusi ) were a Canaanite tribe who inhabited and built Jerusalem prior to its conquest by King David according to the Biblical account ; the Books of Kings state that Jerusalem was known as Jebus prior to this event.

The Tanakh portion of the Bible contains the only surviving ancient text known to use the term Jebusite to describe the pre-Israelite inhabitants of Jerusalem ; according to the Table of Nations at Genesis 10, the Jebusites are identified as a Canaanite tribe, which is listed in third place among the Canaanite groups, between the Biblical Hittites and the Amorites.

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In addition, digs in the 1930s had failed to find traces of the simultaneous destruction of Canaanite cities c. 1400 BCE — in fact many of them, including Jericho, the first Canaanite city to fall to the Israelites according to the Book of Joshua, were uninhabited at the time.

Hannahannah ( from Hittite hannas " grandmother ") is a Hurrian Mother Goddess related to or influenced by the pre-Sumerian goddess Inanna, although the similarity in name to the Biblical Hannah, mother of Samuel ( according to 1 Kings ); the Canaanite Anat, and the Christian Saint Anne are coincidental, the name Hannah in Hebrew having a different etymology deriving from a native root.

Other Aramaean sites also demonstrate a contemporary absence of pig remains at that time, unlike earlier Canaanite and later Philistine excavations.

As such, the translation of the word as " the Cananite " or " the Canaanite " is traditional and without contemporary extra-canonic parallel.

Harvard Divinity School Professor Frank Moore Cross refers to this theory as the " Jebusite Hypothesis ," criticizes it extensively, but terms it the dominant view among contemporary scholars, in Canaanite Myth and Hebrew Epic: Essays in the History of the Religion of Israel.

Its history is important to understanding the origin and development of the Mesopotamian, Egyptian, Canaanite, Israeli, Phoenician, Carthaginian, Greek, Roman, Byzantine, Ottoman, Christian and Islamic cultures.

* Simon the Canaanite, Christian martyr ( in Armenia ) ( probably this year )

The word is cognate with forms meaning ' death ' in other Semitic and Afro-Asiatic languages: with Arabic موت mawt ; with Hebrew מות ( mot or mavet ; ancient Hebrew moth or maweth ); with Maltese mewt ; with Syriac mautā ; with Ge ' ez mot ; with Canaanite, Egyptian, Berber, Aramaic, Nabataean, and Palmyrene מות ( mwt ); with Jewish Aramaic, Christian Palestinian Aramaic, and Samaritan מותא ( mwt ’); with Mandaean muta ; with Akkadian mūtu ; with Hausa mutuwa ; and with Angas mut.

The early Christian era in Adjara was linked with names of Saint Andrew, Saint Simon the Canaanite and Matata.

* Baal ( demon ), a Christian demon, loosely identified with the Canaanite god

Omri, King of Israel, continued policies dating from the reign of Jeroboam, contrary to the laws of Moses, that were intended to reorient religious focus away from Jerusalem: encouraging the building of local temple altars for sacrifices, appointing priests from outside the family of the Levites, and allowing or encouraging temples dedicated to the Canaanite god, Baal.

Snake cults were well established in Canaanite religion in the Bronze Age, for archaeologists have uncovered serpent cult objects in Bronze Age strata at several pre-Israelite cities in Canaan: two at Megiddo, one at Gezer, one in the sanctum sanctorum of the Area H temple at Hazor, and two at Shechem.

A large Canaanite temple ( 39 meters in length ) excavated by the University of Pennsylvania Museum may date from about the same period as Thutmose III's conquest, though the Hebrew University excavations suggest that it dates to a later period.

The ancient city of Beit Shemesh (" house of the sun " or " temple of the sun " in Hebrew ) was originally named after the Canaanite sun-goddess Shemesh, who was worshipped there in antiquity.

A Canaanite temple was uncovered from 1994 to 2003.

The first church of Saints Sarkis and Bakhos was built in the mid 8th Century A. D. on the ruins of a Canaanite temple dedicated to a god of agriculture.