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realm. He was the son of the first pair of gods, Ansar and Kisar, and the ... record, making him one of the oldest of the gods. Like his Canaanite counterpart ...

and in Eblaite—a previously unknown Semitic language. Its religion appears to have included both Semitic and Sumerian influences ...

Yam or Yamm, from the ancient Semitic word meaning "sea," ... In West Semitic mythology, Yam was given kingship over the other gods ...

The Akkadian Empire usually refers to the Semitic speaking state that ... Rulers with Semitic names had already established themselves at Kish ...

Ēl (Hebrew: אל) is a northwest Semitic word meaning "god" ... Asherah, and the parent of many other gods. Canaanite mythology about ...

in several myths as risking the other gods' disapproval by showing ... to some degree with later western Semitic gods such as the Canaanite ...

Anat, also ‘Anat, was a major northwest Semitic goddess who was ... `Anat is addressed by El, the father of the gods as "daughter" and ...

union gives rise to the first generation of gods. After becoming outraged at ... As the Babylonian and Semitic societies were closely related (in terms ...

details the mythology of several Canaanite gods and provides previously unknown ... temples: one to Baal the "king of the gods," and one to Dagon, the ...

Amar, Hebrew ’emōrî) refers to a Semitic people who first occupied ... The Amorite language was a semitic dialect. The main sources for our ...

Albright obtained his doctorate in Semitic languages at Johns Hopkins ... view and agenda. In Yahweh and the Gods of Canaan, he expressed the ...

of the Sumerian goddess Inanna and the Semitic goddess Astarte, the three ... The name Ishtar is likely Semitic in origin, and was identified in ...

also spelled Ashera, was a major northwest Semitic mother goddess, appearing ... beginning in the eighteenth dynasty, a Semitic goddess named Qudshu (& ...

The Sumerians called their gods the Anunaki. Abraham was the son of ... Sitchin's voluminous works, he uses Semitic language etymology and translations ...

Dagon was an ancient northwest Semitic god worshiped by the early ... and in personal Amorite names in which the gods Ilu (Ēl), Dagan, and Hadad/Adad ...

enemy of the Hebrew God Yahweh. The Semitic word "baal" (meaning ... Here, he earns his position as the champion and ruler of the gods ...

debated. Many consider him to have been a Semitic fertility deity similar ... of the Philistines and worshiped their gods. The judge Samson (Judges ...

Tiamat's salt water spawned both the gods and civilization. ... ::None of the gods had been brought into being, ::And none bore a name ...

Certain signs to indicate names of gods, countries, cities, vessels ... modifications to Sumerian orthography. The Semitic equivalents for many signs ...

As the names of Babylonian gods often offer insight into the character ... servant attempted to enlist help of other gods but only wise Enki (Babylonian ...

among the Canaanite languages in the Semitic language family. In addition ... While the Semitic language of the Phoenicians, and some evidence of ...

I know that the Lord is greater than all gods," and offered burnt offerings ... Israelites, and the name Reuel, like many Semitic names of the era, contains ...

or Idumea. The Edomite people were a Semitic-speaking tribal group inhabiting ... Semites, they may have worshiped such gods as El, Baal, Asherah, and ...

Ages. In many subsequent cases, anti-Semitic blood libels served as the ... propaganda sacrifices to the Greek gods were typically in the forms ...

extolling Yahweh as greater than all other gods. The Midianite priest "brought ... attempts were made to trace the West Semitic Yah back to Babylonia. Assyriologist ...

linguistic attempts to derive the name from Semitic Aštoret, via ... be the cause of violence between the other gods. To remedy this situation ...

to God, translators render the term as "the gods." ... The name El appears in several northwest Semitic languages, such as Phoenician ...

but differing in many particulars from the gods of polytheism. While "full ... are often reinterpreted as "lesser gods." Their help and intervention ...

the development of the three Abrahamic or Semitic faiths and their ideas, ... sun. He soon forbade the worship of other gods, especially of the state god ...

The Sumerians were a non-Semitic people and were at one time believed ... Sumerian king before the arrival of the Semitic named king, Sargon of Akkad. ...

Despite this apparently unlimited diversity, however, the gods (unlike ... One reason for this was the undeniable fact that the Egyptian gods ...

by the name of a neighboring village. The Semitic name of the city, if not ... The Nabataeans worshipped the Arab gods and goddesses of the pre-Islamic ...

they viewed as pacifism and addressed anti-Semitic insults to several speakers ... :The world exists because it was created by the gods, and that the ...

although his untimely death would fragment his newly conquered Semitic ... states that Hammurabi was chosen by the gods of his people to bring the ...

the cosmic being, is sacrificed by the gods in order to supply from his ... *Rohi, Rajinder Kaur. Semitic and Sikh Monotheism: A Comparative Study ...

landscape were erected by a race of white gods who had lived there before ... color from reddish to blonde, and almost Semitic, hook-nosed faces. In contrast ...

language, related to Chadic, Berber, and Semitic languages, and recorded ... or "Ta Nteru" ("Land of the Gods"). Once commonly thought ...

Most divine attributes ascribed to the Semitic kings of Babylonia disappeared ... by removing the images of the local gods from their ancestral shrines ...

from Baal Am, a reference to Am, one of the gods (ba'alim) of Moab. It ... The word Ba'al means simply "Lord" in various semitic ...

to which famous people originate from gods (like Augustus as the son ... In an Ugaritic tablet (Ugaritic was a north-west Semitic language ...

quot;pomegranate" is the Egyptian and Semitic rmn. Attested in Ancient ... Zeus, the highest ranking of the Greek gods, could not leave the Earth ...

the world became a popular form of anti-Semitic expression. The highly explicit ... refers not only to Jews but all Semitic peoples, including the Arabs ...

language closely related to Egyptian and Semitic-Canaanite languages. The ... *Keenan, Jeremy. The Lesser Gods of the Sahara: Social Change and ...

language isolate. Along with Sumerian, Semitic languages were also spoken ... and for the Semitic Babylonians, this involved knowledge of the extinct ...

(shaitan), derive from a Northwest Semitic root śṭn , meaning "to ... in their resemblance to the Canaanite gods Baal and Moloch, the Greek ...

of Abraham the True, and he joined not gods with God." In the Qur ... *Semitic origins. Judaism and Islam originated among Semitic peoples ...

translated as "these are your gods"—is probably better ... * Farbridge, Maurice H. Studies in Biblical and Semitic Symbolism ...

that there is only one God and not three Gods? The doctrine, following Tertullian ... Father, Son, and Holy Spirit are not three Gods, and only one God exists. ...

Age city-states with their pantheons of gods up in the heavens), ... by Maya Deren Divine Horsemen: the Living Gods of Haiti (1953), Carl Kerenyi ...

of usury were sometimes virulently anti-Semitic. Together with his embrace ... into 'divine or permanent world.' Gods, etc. The poem's ...

goes from materialist superstition in Pagan Gods, through ancient dogma to ... figure—was criticized as anti-Semitic. As a result the Massachusetts ...

that Eliot was probably “slightly anti-Semitic in the sort of vague way ... Nevertheless, in his minor work "After Strange Gods" (1933 ...

way Northern Europeans often portray the Semitic Jesus as blonde and blue-eyed. ... # teacher of the Divine Gods and humans # the Enlightened One ...

did call himself "the favorite of the gods." The image on the stele ... When the Semitic tribes settled in the cities of Mesopotamia, their ...

to that of King Sargon I, founder of the Semitic dynasty of Akkad, c. 2360 ... the Hyksos from Egypt. The Hyksos were a Semitic people who rose to power ...

influenced by Romanticism. He saw the gods of the Rig-Veda as active ... #039;) traditions in opposition to Semitic religions. He was deeply ...

altar, altar for sacrifice to the great gods," perhaps originally ... the Baals (Lords) and the Asherot (Semitic goddesses). In addition ...

also under a fourth name, the West Semitic designation Naharina or ... Hurrian language is neither Indo-European nor Semitic. Roux (1992), 234. ...

to Mediterranean peoples in Egyptian, Semitic or Babylonian records. etc.; statements as to the origin of gods, cults and so forth, transmitted ...

are female adjectives from the Proto-Semitic root LYL "night" ... peers, Lamashtu was not instructed by the gods to do her malevolence, she ...

temples were intended as gateways for the gods to come to earth, literal ... Babylon would have contained some non-Semitic languages, such as Hurrian ...

thought of Ge'ez Enoch are thoroughly Semitic, and show no indication ... in the desert, which is in Dûdâêl (Gods Kettle/Crucible/Cauldron) ...

place name "Keftiu" and the Semitic "Kaftor" or "Caphtor ... Although there is some evidence of male gods, depictions of Minoan ...

Cognates of the name "Allāh" exist in other Semitic languages ... worshiped Allah alongside a host of lesser gods and those whom they called ...

shore was inhabited by various Semitic-speaking populations. The ... powers and processes of nature. Many of the gods they worshiped, however, were ...

Mencken has been referred to as anti-Semitic and misogynistic. Many of ... *1930. Treatise on the Gods. ISBN 0801885361 *1932. Making a President. ...

of these conceptions can be identified. The gods of polytheistic and henotheistic ... The gods are generally conceived to be immortal. They are often portrayed ...

Sviatoslav continued to worship Perun, Veles, Svarog and the other ... Clarifies Situation Over Potentially Anti-Semitic Monument"] (Federation ...

written in your law, "I say you are gods?"'" (quoting ... of debate, though critics of the “anti-Semitic” theory cite that the author ...

and dramatic innovations, and for his anti-semitic and political opinions. ... ** (1874) Götterdämmerung (Twilight of the Gods) (originally entitled ...

French army charged with treason by anti-Semitic colleagues. Some of these ... *Bernstein, Peter L. 1996. Against the Gods: A Remarkable Story of ...

far away as Lebanon. The Akkadians were a Semitic people, who had migrated ... Arabic, a Semitic language introduced by the Arab conquerors, is the ...

primitive forebears for propitiating the gods as a means of defense and ... increasingly subject to attacks in anti-Semitic portions of the press. His ...

animals and children ranking the lowest and gods and members of royalty as ... languages, which include the populous Semitic languages such as Arabic ...