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In some Canaanite and Ugaritic sources, El played a role as father of the gods, of creation, or both. [12] However, because the word el sometimes refers to a god other than the great god El, it is frequently ambiguous as to whether El followed by another name means the great god El with a particular epithet applied or refers to another god ...
Canaanite religion was polytheistic and in some cases monolatristic. It was influenced by neighboring cultures, particularly ancient Egyptian and Mesopotamian religious practices. The pantheon was headed by the god El and his consort Asherah, with other significant deities including Baal, Anat, Astarte, and Mot.
The early Israelites may have leaned towards polytheistic practices as their worship apparently included a variety of Canaanite gods and goddesses, including El, Asherah and Baal. [9] In later centuries, El and Yahweh became conflated and El-linked epithets such as El Shaddai came to be applied to Yahweh alone. [10]
The word el (singular) is a standard term for "god" in Aramaic, paleo-Hebrew, and other related Semitic languages including Ugaritic. The Canaanite pantheon of gods was known as 'ilhm, [17] the Ugaritic equivalent to elohim. [18] For instance, the Ugaritic Baal Cycle mentions "seventy sons of Asherah".
Yahweh, however, was not the "original" god of Israel. Rather it was El, the head of the Canaanite pantheon whose name forms the basis of the name "Israel" (Hebrew: יִשְׂרָאֵל), [15] and none of the Hebrew patriarchs, tribes of Israel, Judges, or early monarchs have a Yahwistic theophoric name (i.e., a name incorporating the name of ...
The Baal Cycle is an Ugaritic text (c. 1500–1300 BCE) about the Canaanite god Baʿal (lit. "Owner", "Lord"), a storm god associated with fertility. The Baal Cycle consists of six tablets, itemized as KTU 1.1–1.6. Tablets one (KTU 1.1) and two (KTU 1.2) are about the cosmic battle between the storm-god Baal and the sea god Yam, where the ...
Baal (/ ˈbeɪ.əl, ˈbɑː.əl /), [6][a] or Baʻal[b] (Hebrew: בַּעַל baʿal), was a title and honorific meaning 'owner' or ' lord ' in the Northwest Semitic languages spoken in the Levant during antiquity. From its use among people, it came to be applied to gods. [11]
El Shaddai (אל שדי, ʾel šaday, pronounced [ʃaˈdaj]) is one of the names of God in Judaism, with its etymology coming from the influence of the Ugaritic religion on modern Judaism. El Shaddai is conventionally translated as "God Almighty". While the translation of El as ' god ' in Ugaritic / Canaanite languages is straightforward, the ...