Middle_Eastern Death_(personification)



mot (lit.  death ) personified canaanites god of death. considered son of king of gods, el. contest storm god baʿal forms part of myth cycle discovered in 1920s in ruins of ugarit. lacunae obscure of details, mot apparently consumes baʿal before being split open , mutilated god s sister, warrior anat. after time, both gods restored , resume battle before sun goddess shapash prompts truce warning mot that, if forced to, el intervene on baʿal s behalf. phoenicians worshipped death under name mot , version of mot later became maweth, devil or angel of death in judaism.








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