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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 36. Chapters: Anatolian gods, Arabian gods, Elamite gods, West Semitic gods, Ba al, Dagon, Melqart, Moloch, Resheph, Hadad, Hubal, Yahweh, Mot, Adon, Eshmun, Amurru, Shalim, Berith, Ruda, Baal Shamim, Nuha, Men, Sydyk, Dushara, Orotalt, Inshushinak, Al-Kutbay, Khaldis, Bajir, Almaqah, Aglibol, Beelshamen, Malakbel, Marqod, Wadd, Attar, Shahar, Abgal, Kotar, Yaghuth, Kaus, Satrapes, Azizos, Asira, Manaf, Amm, Al-Qaum, Hylates, Asar, Nasr, Ninsusinak, Suwa', Ruldaiu, Nahundi, Nesr, Arsu, Ta'lab, Khumban, Napir, Basamum, Jabru, Anbay and Haukim, Haubas, Salman, Ba'al Hermon, Dhu'l-Halasa, Lahurati, Qaynan. Excerpt: (written aleph-lamed, i.e., etc.) is the Northwest Semitic word for "deity," cognate to Akkadian . In the Canaanite religion, or Levantine religion as a whole, Eli or Il was the supreme god, the father of humankind and all creatures and the husband of the goddess Asherah as recorded in the clay tablets of Ugarit (modern Ras Shamra, Syria). The word El was found at the top of a list of gods as the Ancient of gods or the Father of all gods, in the ruins of the royal archive of the Ebla civilization, in the archaeological site of Tell Mardikh in Syria dated to 2300 BC. The bull was symbolic to El and his son Ba'al Hadad, and they both wore bull horns on their headdress. He may have been a desert god at some point, as the myths say that he had two wives and built a sanctuary with them and his new children in the desert. El had fathered many gods, but most important were Hadad, Yam, and Mot. Cognate forms are found throughout the Semitic languages. They include Ugaritic, pl.; Phoenician pl.; Hebrew, pl.; Aramaic; Akkadian, pl. . In Northwest Semitic usage l was both a generic word for any "god" and the special name or title of a particular god who was distinguished from other gods as being "the god," or in the mon...
