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Encyclopedia > Canaanite mythology

Canaanite mythology are the myths and god tales of ancient Canaan. Canaanite can describe anything pertaining to Canaan: in particular, its languages and inhabitants. ... Canaan or Knáan (Arabic کنعان, Kanʻān, Hebrew כְּנַעַן / כְּנָעַן, Kənáʻan / Kənāʻan; Septuagint Greek Χανααν, Khanaan) is an ancient term for a region roughly corresponding to present-day Israel, the West Bank, western Jordan, southern and coastal Syria and Lebanon continuing up until the border of modern Turkey. ...

  • calf worship of Canaanites and Phoenicians : Tobit i. 5, speaks of "Baal the heifer"
  • Canaan, son of Ham in the Bible.
  • Og, giant Canaanite king of Bashan in the Bible
  • Saint Christopher was said to be a Canaanite.
  • Sihon Rephaim giant king of the Amorites
  • Mount Hermon was apparently used by the Canaanites for their pagan religious rituals.
  • Qadash Kinahnu was a Canaanite-Phoenician temple.
  • Canaanite myths also include the myths of the Amorites, Moabites, and Ammonites.


Canaanite gods The Book of Tobit is a book of scripture that is part of the Catholic and Orthodox biblical canon, pronounced canonical by the Council of Carthage of 397 and confirmed for Roman Catholics by the Council of Trent (1546). ... Canaan or Knáan (Arabic کنعان, Kanʻān, Hebrew כְּנַעַן / כְּנָעַן, Kənáʻan / Kənāʻan; Septuagint Greek Χανααν, Khanaan) is an ancient term for a region roughly corresponding to present-day Israel, the West Bank, western Jordan, southern and coastal Syria and Lebanon continuing up until the border of modern Turkey. ... Technically, ham is the thigh and buttock of any animal that is slaughtered for meat, but the term is usually restricted to a cut of pork, the haunch of a pig or boar. ... Parts of this article contradict each other. ... Og, pronounced Aug -meaning gigantic, was an ancient Amorite king of Bashan who, along with his sons and army, was slain by Moses and his men at the battle of Edrei (probably modern day Dara, Syria) according to several books of the Old Testament. ... Bashan (meaning light soil) is a biblical place first mentioned in Genesis 14:5, where it is said that Chedorlaomer and his confederates smote the Rephaim in Ashteroth, where Og the king of Bashan had his residence. ... This article is about the Christian saint known as Christopher. ... The Bible describes that as the Israelites in their Exodus came to the country east of the Jordan, king Sihon of the Amorites refused to let them pass through his country. ... This entry incorporates text from Eastons Bible Dictionary, 1897, with some modernisation. ... Mount Hermon (top of photo) supplies the bulk of the Jordan River water Mount Hermon (Arabic: Jabalu sh-Shaykh) is a mountain in the Anti-Lebanon range, on the border between Lebanon, Syria, and Israel. ... Amorite (Hebrew ’emōrî, Egyptian Amar, Akkadian Amurrū (corresponding to Sumerian MAR.TU or Martu) refers to a Semitic people who occupied the middle Euphrates area from the second half of the third millennium BC and also appear in the Tanakh. ... The Moabite language is an extinct Hebrew Canaanite dialect, spoken in Moab (modern-day northwestern Jordan) in the early first millennium BC. Most of our knowledge about Moabite comes from the Mesha Stele, as well as the El-Kerak Stela; this is sufficient to show that it was extremely similar... This article is about the marine animal. ...


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