El
c. 1400 BCE – 100 CEattested
Ugarit
- Canaanite
Aged head of the Canaanite pantheon, who sits at the source of the rivers and rarely does anything. His name is also simply the word for "god", which is why it survives inside so many Hebrew names.
Known for
- the god who delegates
- the tent at the source of the rivers
- a name that became a common noun
Dates are estimates. A great deal of what this atlas covers is only datable to within a century.