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Mot (god)

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From its connection Mot was produced, which some say is mud, and others a putrescence of watery compound; and out of this came every germ of creation, and the generation of the universe. So there were certain animals which had no sensation, and out of them grew intelligent animals, and were called
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may have begun as a ritual connected with the myth of Mot killing Baal, as Baal was the god of rain among the Canaanites and certain other Semitic nations. Modern scholars have disputed such views as a failure to take into account the original narrative and cultural context, pointing instead to a
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After seven years, Death returns, seeking vengeance and demanding one of Ba'al's brothers to feed upon. A gap in the text is followed by Mot complaining that Ba'al has given Mot his own brothers to eat, the sons of his mother to consume. A single combat between the two breaks out until the sun
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Death sends back a message that his appetite is that of lions in the wilderness, like the longing of dolphins in the sea, and he threatens to devour Ba'al himself. In a subsequent passage Death seemingly makes good his threat, or at least is deceived into believing he has slain Ba'al. Numerous
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in burying him. 'Anat then comes upon Mot, seizing him, splitting him with a blade, winnowing him in a sieve, burning him in a fire, grinding him under a millstone, and throwing what remains in the end over a field for birds to devour.
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and in Phoenicia, where Canaanite religion was widespread. The main source of information about Mot in Canaanite mythology comes from the texts discovered at Ugarit, but he is also mentioned in the surviving fragments of
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purposeful subversion of the Baal/Mot myth on the part of the authors of the Hebrew Bible, working in a framework of an audience who were well-acquainted with the religious worldview of the surrounding nations.
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goddess Shapash upbraids Mot, informing him that his own father El will turn against him and overturn his throne if he continues. Mot concedes and the conflict ends.
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But in an earlier philosophical creation myth, Sanchuniathon refers to a great wind which merged with its parents, and that connection was called '
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El, Baal's father, dreams that Baal is alive, and sends Shapash to bring him back to life because the land had become dry.
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Fragments of tablets bearing the "Baal Cycle", a notable source on Caananite religion and its Death (
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Mullen, E. T., Jr. (1980). "The Cosmogonie Conflicts: The Kingship of Ba'l, Yamm, and Môt". In:
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Jacobs, Vivian; Jacobs, Isaac Rosensohn (1945). "The Myth of Môt and 'Al'eyan Ba'al".
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Hadad seems to be urging that Mot come to his feast and submit himself to Hadad.
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Watson, Paul L. (1972). "The Death of 'Death' in the Ugaritic Texts".
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A few scholars have postulated the idea that the Jewish tradition of
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make this portion of the tale obscure. The sun stops shining as its
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A Phoenician account survives in a paraphrase of the Greek author
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A Biblical reworking of the combat motif between Mot and Baal.
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