Ancient Ugarit, 10,000 BC to 2000 BC, covered what
today is Turkey, Syria and much of the Levant. It's
last three kings were Ammitamru, Ammit and Ammurapi.
Chief god EL shared the skies with Shaddei and Barith,
with Baal, Ashera and Yam playing lesser roles. They
posed a challenge to the newly arrived band of
Abraham's Hebrews from Ur(Basra today!). The problem
was solved by giving their own god, Yahweh, the titles
of El, Shaddei and Barith: why eliminate the gods of
Canaan when one could just as well assimilate !! The
Prophets complained, the folk went further: Ashera
was married off to Yahweh - even a god could use a
consort ! A common slogan was "whose land, his god,
make it Baal"; call it Co-existance!
Ugaritic worship was essentially drunken
orgies, the Hebrew response was predictable: women
were barred from temples! Their capital was Shamra,
Latakia in Syria, today; a word to Marlon - stick to
Vagator !! eric.
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