El
deity sky Canaanite single tradition · 28
El is the Canaanite high god who lived on a mountain to the north. The lesser god Helel tried to dethrone him.
↻ synthesized from 28 sources
When
- First attested
- 3000 BCE
- Attested period
- -3000 – 2020
- Historical notes
- Canaanite religion flourished from the Bronze Age through the early Roman period.
Relationships
- co occurs with
- Helel, Hêlal, Tanit, Set, Pontos, Têmtum, Adad, Hathor, Bull of Heaven, Gavaevodata, Heiðrún, Kamadhenu, Mehet-Weret, Ashtart, Hubbay, Leviathan, El Shaddai, El Elyon, El Olam, Iblis, Asherah, Adam, Helios, Hadad, Yammu, rephaim, Tannin, Elioun, Berouth, Apis, ʽElyōn, ’Elohim, Al-Ala, Theos Hypsistos, Illiyin, Astarte, Dagon, Atargatis, Shapash, ʿAṯtart, ʾAṯirat, ʿAnat, Yamm, Ba‘al/Hadad, ‘Athtart, ‘Anat, ‘Athtar, Išḫara, Shapshu, Yarikh, Dadmiš, Arsay, Kinnaru, Gaṯaru, Qetesh, Resheph, Dagan, Shalim, Shahar, Hauron, Tunnanu, Attapar, Ẓiẓẓu-wa-Kāmaṯu, Milku, Athirat, Ptah, ʽElyōn, Uṣas, Mot, Yam, Anat, Kothar-wa-Khasis, Baal, Lotan, Pidray, Gupan, Ugar, Tallay, Athtar, Kothar, Qudšu, Amrur, Baʿal, ‘Athtart, Qodesh-wa-Amrur, Sheger, Ithm, Anu, Teshub, Shalash, Ištaran, Ullikummi, Maweth, Horonu, Moloch, Milcom, Qaws, Osiris, Chemosh, MLKM, QWS1, KMS1, Malkum, Malik, Ba'al, Ethana, Zu, Mithra, Elohim, ʿAṯtar
- parent of
- Baal, Yam, Yahweh, Ashtar, Ba'al Hadad, Shahar, Shallem, Shapshu, Baʿal, ʾlhm, Anat, Mot, Yamm, Baʿal Hadad, Kirta
- manifested by
- ʾIlu
- sibling of
- Baitylos
- child of
- Epigeius/Autochthon/Sky, earth
- creator of
- Baʿal Hadad, Shatiqatu
- served by
- Kothar-wa-Khasis
Mentioned by
Sources
wikipedia (28)
Source passages
“The original myth may have been about the lesser god Helel trying to dethrone the Canaanite high god El, who lived on a mountain to the north.”
#2272 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001
“El, creator bull deity in Canaanite mythology”
#5781 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001
“Others have argued that from the Patriarchal age, these different names were generally understood to refer to the same single great god, El. This is the position of Frank Moore Cross. What is certain is that the form El does appear in Israelite names from every period, including the name Yisrā'ēl”
#11670 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001
“He was considered a son of the king of the gods, El.”
#14502 · extracted by anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5
“sun of El (head of the local pantheon).”
#15452 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001