List of Canaanite deities
El depicted with two lions representing the planet Venus on the back of the handle of the Gebel el-Arak Knife
A list of deities in Canaanite religion.
- Anat, virgin goddess of War and Strife, mate and sister of Ba'al Hadad
- Asherah or Athirat "walker of the sea", mother Goddess, wife of El (also known as Elat), known after the Bronze Age as Asherah
- Astarte, a possibly androgynous divinity associated with Venus
- Baalat (or Baalit), the wife or female counterpart of Baal (also Belili)
- Ba'al Hadad, a storm god who superseded El as head of the Pantheon
- Baal-Hammon, god of fertility and renewer of all energies in the Phoenician colonies of the Western Mediterranean
- Dagon, god of crop fertility, usually described as father of Hadad
- El Elyon (meaning "God Most High") or El
- Eshmun or Baalat Asclepius, god of healing (or goddess)
- The Kathirat (or the Kotharat), goddesses of marriage and pregnancy
- Kothar, Hasis, the skilled, god of craftsmanship
- Lotan, serpent ally of evil,Yam
- Melqart, king of the city, the underworld and the renewing cycle of vegetation in Tyre
- Molech, god of fire
- Mot, god of death
- Nikkal, goddess of orchards (especially pomegranate), lover of Yarikh
- Qadeshtu, Holy One, goddess of love
- Resheph god of plague and healing
- Shalim and Shachar
- Shamayim, the god of the heavens
- Shapash, also transliterated Shapshu, goddess of the sun; sometimes equated with the Mesopotamian sun god Shemesh
- Shemesh (in Ugarit the goddess Shapshu), Sun god[1] (or goddess, its gender is disputed)[2]
- Yam, also called Yam-nahar (meaning Judge Nahar)
- Yarikh god of the moon, lover of Nikkal
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