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Mot

deity underworld Canaanite single tradition · 16

Mot ('Death') is one of the sons of El named individually in the Ugaritic texts.

↻ synthesized from 16 sources

When

First attested
1500 BCE
Attested period
-1500 – 2020
Historical notes
Ugaritic texts date to the Late Bronze Age.

Relationships

co occurs with
Dagnu, Ba'l Ṣapān, Shachar, Shalim, Raḥmayyu, Hubbay, Huur, Spandaramet, Andjety, Aqen, Assessors of Maat, Duamutef, Imset, Kherty, Medjed, Nehebkau, Qebehsenuef, Wepwawet, Sejadin, Nasirdîn, Destroying angel, Shapshu, Ḥoranu, Tunnan, Tannin, Yamm, ‘Athtart, ‘Athtar, Yarikh, Ḫanat, Shahar, Hauron, Tunnanu, Horon, Attapar, Ẓiẓẓu-wa-Kāmaṯu, Kothar-wa-Khasis, Anat, Kothar, Arsay, Gupan, Ugar, Tallay, Qudšu, Amrur, Shapash, Sheger, Ithm, Milku, Dumah, Maweth, Têmtum, Adad, Asherah, ʾil-ʾib, Aker, Isis, Serapis, Osiris, Anubis, Seker, Nephthys, Hapi, Gabriel, Michael, Santa Muerte, Yama, Psychopomp, Shinigami, Resheph, Šimige, Yammu, rephaim, Ashtart, Nupatik, Aštabi, Dagan, ʿAṯtar, Hadad, Athirat, Lotan, Athtar, Pidray, Allani, Shuwala, Samael, Abaddon, Azrael, Mastema
sibling of
Ashtar, Yamm, Yam
enemy of
Baal, Ba‘al, Anat, Baʿal Hadad, Baʿal, Ba'al Hadad, Ba‘al/Hadad, ‘Anat
manifests as
Maweth
child of
ʼĒl, El
has aspect
Maweth

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Mentioned by

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Sources

wikipedia (16)
  1. El (deity)
  2. List of death deities
  3. Jeoseungsaja
  4. Personifications of death
  5. Saureil
  6. Shapshu
  7. List of Canaanite deities
  8. Hadad
  9. Anat
  10. Hauron
  11. Yam (god)
  12. Baal
  13. Baal Cycle
  14. Milku
  15. Destroying angel (Bible)
  16. Memitim

Source passages

“The only sons of El named individually in the Ugaritic texts are Yamm ('Sea'), Mot ('Death'), and Ashtar, who may be the chief and leader of most of the sons of El.”

#11658 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001

“Mot”

#12211 · extracted by anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5

“The Canaanites of the 12th- and 13th-century BC Levant personified death as the god Mot (lit. "Death"). He was considered a son of the king of the gods, El. His contest with the storm god Baʿal forms part of the Ba'al Cycle”

#14501 · extracted by anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5

“Mot (god), an angel of death from the Hebraic Book of Habakkuk”

#14610 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001

“Later in the Epic, KTU 1.4 viii 21-27, Baal instructs his emissaries to travel to deliver a message to Mot in the netherworld by joining Shapshu on her journey there. Here, she is shown to act as a bridge between the worlds of the living and the dead.”

#16120 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001