Canaanite Mythology
Canaanite Mythology: The Complete Guide to Baal, El, Anat, and the Gods of the Ancient Levant
Baal, El, Anat, and the Gods of the Levant
The gods the Hebrew Bible warned against, recovered from the clay tablets of Ugarit: El the patriarch, Baal the storm-rider, Anat the war goddess, and Mot the lord of death. The mythology behind the Bible’s great rival.
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Inside this book
What you will read
- 11 chapters, primary sources
- Instant PDF download
- Original ink illustrations
- Inline citations to the Ugaritic tablets
- Designed for print quality
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- 01The Cities of the Coast: Ugarit and the Levant
- 02El, the Father of the Gods
- 03Asherah, Lady of the Sea
- 04Baal, the Rider on the Clouds
- 05The Palace of Baal
- 06Anat, the Violent Maiden
- 07Baal and Yam: The Battle for Kingship
- 08Baal and Mot: Death, Drought, and Return
- 09The Rephaim and the Cult of the Dead
- 10Canaanite Religion and the Hebrew Bible
- 11What the Tablets of Ugarit Recovered
Written by
Guillaume Henry
Founder of Mythologis
Guillaume Henry founded Mythologis to make the world's mythologies readable without losing what makes them strange. Every book draws on the primary sources first.
- Primary sources first
- No invented quotations
- Cross-referenced across translations
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