From the Canaanite word ''Yam'', meaning ''Sea''. Also called '''Judge Nahar''' ("Judge River"
==Comparative mythology==
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...t was the planet Jupiter. There is no intimation in the OT that any of the Canaanite Baals were sun-gods, or that the worship of the sun (Shemesh), of which we
...antheon, Hadad was the son of El, who had once been the primary god of the Canaanite pantheon, and whose name was also used interchangeably with that of the Heb
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In the study of [[mythology]] and religion, the '''underworld''' is a generic term approximately equiva
===[[Akkadian mythology]]===
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...Tiberian Hebrew '''Liwyāṯān''') was a [[:Category:Biblical mythology|Biblical]] [[sea monster]] referred to in the Old Testament (Psalms 74:13-1
...Yahweh and a monster variously named Leviathan, Rahab, or simply Dragon. A Canaanite poem from Ras Shamra (ancient Ugarit) in northern Syria records a battle be
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...Deuteronomy (XVIII 9–12) explicitly warns the Israelites against the Canaanite practice of divination from the dead. This warning was not always heeded: K
[[Norse mythology]] also contains examples of necromancy (Ruickbie, 2004:48), such as the sce
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...h=Lev.%20xvi.%208] Some propose that Azazel may have been derived from the Canaanite god, 'Asiz, who caused the sun to burn strongly.
[[Category:Jewish mythology]]
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...ppearance of Phoenician literary texts, Dagon has practically no surviving mythology.
...He commanded religious reverence from both the Philistines and the broader Canaanite society. Dagon was indeed crucial to the cosmology of the Philistines and a
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...d John Milton's ''[[Paradise Lost]]'', led to the common idea in Christian mythology and [[folklore]] that Lucifer was a poetic appellation of [[Satan]].
...though still this is a poetical personification of the Light-Bearer, not a mythology:
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...ed as one of the last of the Rephaim." The Rephaim may have been the same Canaanite group known to the Moabites as Emim, i.e., "fearful", (Deuteronomy 2:11), a
...ing attempts to reconcile mythology with science; many have theorized that mythology can and does contain grains of truth in the form of a highly distorted "fol
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...nt or other reptile, with [[magic]]al or [[Spirit|spiritual]] qualities. [[Mythology|Mythological]] creatures possessing some or most of the characteristics typ
...rse exceptions to these rules). Malevolent dragons also occur in [[Persian mythology]] and other cultures.
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...that has generally been described as a malevolent [[spirit]], or [[Daemon (mythology)|daemon]] and [[Jinn]]. A demon is frequently depicted as a force that may
...'' that passed into Christian culture are discussed in the entry [[Daemon (mythology)|daemon]].The Hellenistic "Demon" eventually came to include many Semitic a
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