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Horon

deity Ugaritic single tradition · 2

Horon appears in the text KTU 1.100 and intervenes after other deities are ineffective. He uses a variety of plants he gathered, presumably to deal with venom. A curse invoking Hauron appears both in the Baal Cycle and in the Epic of Keret.

↻ synthesized from 2 sources

When

First attested
1300 BCE
Attested period
-1300 – -1300
Historical notes
Attested on late-13th-century BCE clay tablets from Ugarit.

Relationships

syncretized with
Iblis
enemy of
Adam, El
co occurs with
Attapar, Ẓiẓẓu-wa-Kāmaṯu, Milku, Hauron-Harmachis, Asherah, Baal, Resheph, Dagan, Ashtart, Mot, Shalim, Anat, Shapash, Shahar, Kothar-wa-Khasis, Yarikh, Hauron, Tunnanu, Yam, ʿAṯtar

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Mentioned by

Sources

wikipedia (2)
  1. Hauron
  2. Adam

Source passages

“Horon is one of the best attested deities of Levantine origin who came to be worshiped in ancient Egypt. It is presumed that his cult was introduced from Canaan, but more detailed reconstruction of its early development is not presently possible. His earliest cult center was Giza”

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“Another god, Horon, tries to depose El and when thrown down from the mountain, he transforms the Tree of Life from the garden into a Tree of Death. Horon also spreads around a poisonous fog”

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