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	El (god) Summary
		In the Levant as a whole, El or Il was the supreme god, the father of mankind and all creatures and the husband of the Goddess Asherah as attested in the tablets of Ugarit.
		For the Canaanites, El or Il was the supreme god, the father of mankind and all creatures.
		Ēl is brother to the god Bethel, to Dagon, and to an unknown god equated with the Greek Atlas, and to the goddesses Aphrodite/’Ashtart, Rhea (presumably Asherah, and Dione (equated with Ba’alat Gebal.
	www.bookrags.com /El_(god) (4775 words)

	Father Gods: El, Abba, Yahweh, Elohim, Paraclete (Holy Spirit "Comforter")
		As the god, El was, in accordance with the general irrationality and moral grossness of Canaanite religion, a dim and shadowy figure, who, Philo says, had three wives, who were also his sisters, and who could readily step down from his eminence and become the hero of sordid escapades and crimes.
		Despite all this, El was considered the exalted "father of years" (abu shanima), the "father of man" (abu adami), and "father bull", that is, the progenitor of the gods, tacitly likened to a bull in the midst of a herd of cows.
		El is but one aspect of that Godhead, the chief aspect, the Y. Sometimes he is called Yah, from the YH (first two letters of the tetragrammaton), but that's a rare name for him, hard to find although many mystical Jews today worship him as Yah.
	northernway.org /fathergod.html (5597 words)

	The Literary Life of Deity
		God can thus soar from a simple character such as the old Canaanite El or the repetitive agricultural cycle of Ba'al into a many-faceted God who is creator, destroyer, challenger, punisher, sustainer, counsel and an ongoing metaphor of the national psyche.
		God is thus portrayed as a lonely isolate and formless figure whose relationship with humanity moves from close intimacy to lofty distance.
		The God of cosmogemesis and of quantum mechanics is a God of complements, wave-particle, chaos-order, and female-male.
	www.dhushara.com /book/god/hebrew.htm (8937 words)

	Librarian's Lobby March 2004 -- Names of God (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		The Hebrew names for God do not always translate precisely into English partly because the name of God in Hebrew is closely connected with the religion, history, and nationality of the Jewish people and partly because of changes in use of language.
		Another reason to use a form of God’s name in naming your child is that the spoken name is equivalent to having the divine presence, power, or glory in your family all the time.
		Because of the connection to the Canaanite god, ‘el I speculate the meaning is connected to the concept of “strong.” However, it is necessary to admit that the root, original source, and meaning is not known with certainty.
	home.earthlink.net /~ddstuhlman/crc69.htm (2136 words)

	AWPIV
		God finally agreed to their wishes, but first He gave the children of Israel a speech and a warning about the evils of monarchy: (Of course the very custom of hereditary kingship, according to the most ancient Sumerian texts, was first instituted by the god Enki, the ancient Adversary of the God of heaven).
		El is described in the tablets as the creator of all the gods, and the “Father of Years.” Scholars associate him with the Israelite God who is sometimes referred to as El in the Old Testament.
		God’s primary Biblical title, as explained previously, is Elohim, a plural form of El that was nonetheless often meant to be understood as a singular reference to Yahweh, the Creator of the universe.
	www.redmoonrising.com /worldpowers/awpIV.htm (6852 words)

	Goddesses and Gods Love and Sexuality
		After her birth, Zeus was afraid that the gods would fight over Aphrodite's hand in marriage so he married her off to the smith god Hephaestus the steadiest of the gods.
		He was one of the first gods to emerge from primeval Chaos and is considered to be one of the eldest gods.
		She is often described as the daughter of Anu, the god of the air.
	wuzzle.org /cave/lovegods.html (2008 words)

	YahwehFornicatorEunuchGod
		Other gods, who are outraged over this behavior, banish him for a time from Nippur, he later makes her his wife (according to the storyline she bathed in the nude inorder to entice/seduce him).
		A pottery shard found at Kuntillet el Ajrud, an Iron Age II Caravansari (8th century BCE) in the Lower Negev, shows a couple -believed by some scholars- to be Yahweh with "his Asherah," who is portrayed as a goddess with breasts, their arms interlocked at the elbows in a loving embrace.
		El's progeny are portrayed as constantly feuding and fighting with each other and at times even contemptuous of their progenitor.
	www.bibleorigins.net /YahwehFornicatorEunuchGod.html (3551 words)

	Codicil
		For example, the GM might specify (at least in her own notes about the campaign world) that Canaanites who worship El and Israelites who worship Yahweh are in fact worshiping the same god under two different names, but all other gods are figments of various cultures’ imaginations.
		A number of Old Testament passages depict Yahweh, the God of Israel, as a member—usually the ruler or at least highest-ranking member—of a “divine council.” This is the sensibility behind passages such as Job 1–2, where the various “sons of the gods” present themselves before Yahweh in a heavenly assembly.
		If the GM chooses this approach, the Egyptian gods conduct their own affairs with reference to Egypt, and the Canaanite gods conduct their affairs with reference to Canaan, and the two pantheons don’t have much contact with one another.
	www.heardworld.com /codicil/notes/godandgods.htm (2080 words)

	godofıslam
		Canaanites’ sacrificing their children to the God Baal in a river bed, in a pit or by the head of a sacred well, was an ancient and widespread practice.
		EL married his three sisters, one of whom was Astarte/Ashtoreth, the wife of EL and mother of gods, she is frequently referred to in the Old Testament as Ashtaroth.
		EL not only killed his brother but also his own son: He cut off his daughter’s head, castrated his father, castrated himself and compelled his confederates to do the same.
	members.tripod.com /spentamainyu/godofIslam.htm (12971 words)

	God's Wisdom--Rosemary Radford Ruether on the feminine divine, Christianity, the Da Vinci Code -- Beliefnet.com
		In those texts, Wisdom is described as a emanation of God: "Like a fine mist she rises from the power of God, a pure effluence from the glory of God...
		Wisdom is seen as a companion of God through whom God creates the world, an orderer and sustainer of the universe, a mediator of divine revelation, the one who calls Israel's sons to repent of their folly and enter the study of wisdom.
		Wisdom as a feminine aspect of God was developed by scholar-sages in Jerusalem after the return from exile in the late sixth century B.C.E. Earlier Judaism had known of the Goddess Asherah, wife of the Canaanite God El.
	www.beliefnet.com /story/187/story_18752_1.html (890 words)

	El-GoI
		Yahweh is primarily portrayed as a god who promises to provide his devotees with a land of their own upon which they may live and prosper.
		It appears that we have some variation with regard to the characteristics of El’s pantheon--one which shares many of the dynamic qualities of Canaanite myth (Psalm 29), while another that may be described as presenting the cosmic adminstrative rule of El by his sons.
		El's historic presence with them is shown by their past victories and by the fierceness of their armies.
	www.biblicalheritage.org /God/el-goi.htm (2621 words)

	Random House \| Books \| The Nine Commandments by David Noel Freedman
		For example, at Ugarit, the senior god, El, usually serves as a backdrop for the exploits of the younger Canaanite storm-god, Baal.
		When the Canaanite pantheon is threatened by the deified Sea (Yamm) and later by Death (Mot), it is the self-asserting Baal who comes to the rescue.
		"El" is usually understood, at least in nearly all translations of the Bible, as a generic name for "God." Thus, El Shaddai is rendered as "God Almighty." However, the evidence from Ugarit suggests that the El of biblical tradition could be understood as a personal name for God.
	www.randomhouse.com /catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780385505468&view=excerpt (2132 words)

	Origins of monotheism
		Measuring an impressive 29 by 22 meters, the Migdol Temple is the largest Bronze and Iron Age Temple known to man, an enormous structure justified in its size and emotional impact to the worship of a single God, and which may at one point have functioned as a four-storey temple to the Canaanite god El.
		A stone spectator to a period of intense religious and political upheaval, every single one of the periods bruised, scarred, and left its mark on the temple, transforming the unassuming circular stones into a time capsule that is transforming the understanding of religious history.
		But according to Bourke, archaeological evidence is revealing that this new emphasis on one god was not reserved for the Israelites, but occurred simultaneously in several nation states throughout the Middle East, with Yahweh in Israel, Hadad in Damascus, Milkom in Amman, Chemos in Moab (in present-day Jordan) and Qos in Edom (in present-day Israel).
	cogweb.ucla.edu /Culture/Monotheism.html (939 words)

	Genesis and ancient Near Eastern stories of Creation and the Flood: an introduction - ChristianAnswers.Net
		According to Jacobsen, "the story of the battle between the god of thunderstorms and the sea originated on the coast of the Mediterranean and wandered eastward from there to Babylon" (1968: 107).
		It is difficult to assume that an earlier Canaanite dragon myth existed in the background of Genesis 1:2.
		However, he holds, r-ah 'elohm is not "a wind sent by God," that is to say, a creature, but "a hypostasis for 'elohm." He does not think that it is "part of the description of chaos." According to him, "It expresses Elohim’s control over the cosmos and his ability to impose his will upon it.
	www.christiananswers.net /q-abr/abr-c001.html (2592 words)

	El
		The first Canaanite god, El dwelt on Mount Saphon, and it was under his aegis that Baal married Anat, defeated the sea god Yam and the death lord Mot, and was installed as the divine bestower of life-giving rain.
		Represented as an aged man, El wore bull's horns, the symbol of strength, and was usually depicted as seated.
		It is thought that he corresponded to the Hebrew god, Yahweh.
	www.pantheon.org /mythica/articles/e/el.html (94 words)

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		Her role, in relationship to her bridegroom, finds an echo in many traditions in which the feminine aspect of God is identified with the earth, and the male aspect with the sky.
		Asherah, goddess of forest groves was the wife of El, Canaanite god of Abraham.
		Nut, the Egyptian goddess of the sky, was married to Geb, god of the earth—one of the very few divine marriages in which the heavens were considered feminine and the earth masculine.
	www.uriel.org /articles-presentations/presentations4.htm (3113 words)

	Just Who Were the Jews?? First invent your Jew, then invent your Christ…
		"Thus saith the Lord God unto Jerusalem; Thy birth and thy nativity is of the land of Canaan; thy father was an Amorite, and thy mother an Hittite.
		The Canaanite migrants brought with them cultic practices and images of their traditional gods.
		Other gods were worshipped but Yahweh demanded precedence.
	www.jesusneverexisted.com /jews.htm (1843 words)

	Eve and the Identity of Women: 6. The Old Testament, Women, & Evil
		Baal was primarily a fertility god and appears not only in the form of a man and a bull (like his father 'El), but also in the form of a serpent.
		Initially the association was with Baal's father, the Canaanite god 'El, with whom Yahweh was closely related.
		In the story of the temptation and fall in Genesis 3, Baal is represented in his potent serpent form and exposed as a seducer and deceiver and as Yahweh's evil adversary.
	witcombe.sbc.edu /eve-women/6womenevil.html (1769 words)

	Tithe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		At least some of the gods and ritual utensils used in the enemy cultus, some of the harem, baggage, gold, and other valuables, even body armor and weapons, all belonging to the retreating army and its leaders would have ended up in Abram’s possession.
		Melchizedek, the Canaanite king and priest of Salem/Jerusalem, intercepted Abram and his armed retainers returning from their successful raid against the invading foreign kings.
		True to form, Melchizedek blessed "Abram the Hebrew" in the name of his own Canaanite god, "El-Elyon, creator of heaven and earth." Equally true to form, Abraham swore by his own God, "Yahweh, God Most High, Creator of Heaven and Earth," when he addressed his ally the king of Sodom.
	www.freedownloadsoft.com /info/abcpuzzles.html (3456 words)

	Update
		Elohim, is transliterated to mean "the Gods." English versions of the original text only offer the word "God" ignoring the fact that the word is plural in origin.
		Bereshyt barah Elohim, seems to state that "Bereshyt created the Gods" from which the source of all Divine can be originated.
		"Bereshyt created the Gods, the heavens and the earth," would seem to be a direct phrasing of the text.
	www.denofheathens.com /2002_jan.html (588 words)

	Goddess Astarte: Goddess of Fertility, Beauty, War, and Love
		Interpreted strictly as a Canaanite cult object, the Taanach stand depicts either important Canaanite deities, female and male; or goddesses alone; or even a single goddess.
		The animal on the fourth level, which I think may be a bull calf, probably represents her consort, the storm god, whose function it is to bring rain to fertilize the earth so that the life cycle can go on.
		Devotion to Astarte was prolonged by the Phoenicians, descendants of the Canaanites, who occupied a small territory on the coast of Syria and Lebanon in the first millennium BCE.
	www.matrifocus.com /IMB04/spotlight.htm (1740 words)

	USCCB - NAB - Genesis 14
		When Abram returned from his victory over Chedorlaomer and the kings who were allied with him, the king of Sodom went out to greet him in the Valley of Shaveh (that is, the King's Valley).
		In Canaanite texts, each element may occur separately as the name of a specific deity, or they may be applied together to a single deity, as is done here by the Canaanite priest Melchizedek.
		For the Israelites, el became a poetic synonym for elohim ("God"); elyon ("Most High") became one of the titles of their God Yahweh.
	www.usccb.org /nab/bible/genesis/genesis14.htm (837 words)

	EL - OneLook Dictionary Search
		EL, el : Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms [home, info]
		EL, El, el : LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus [home, info]
		Words similar to EL: alt, altitude, elevation, elevated railroad, elevated railway, overhead railway, more...
	www.onelook.com /?ls=a&w=EL (297 words)

	The Origins of Christianity and the Bible
		The History of God from Abraham to 586 BCE 46
		God's Similarities to the Canaanite God El 49
		God's Similarities to Ancient Near Eastern Gods 57
	www.egodeath.com /bensonoriginsxty.htm (1188 words)

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	Allah
		Allah, as a deity, was probably known in pre-Islamic Arabia.
		Arabic chronicles suggest a pre-Islamic recognition of Allah as a supreme God, with the three goddesses al-Lat, al-Uzza, and Manat as his “daughters.” The Prophet Muhammad, declaring Allah the God of Abraham, demanded a return to a strict monotheism.
		Baha Ullah - Baha Ullah or Baha Allah[Arab.,=glory of God], 1817–92, Persian religious leader originally...
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