Mot
c. 1400 BCE – 100 CEattested
Ugarit
- Canaanite
Death itself, with a throat wide enough to swallow the storm god. His annual contest with Baal is the dry season, and neither side ever wins permanently, which is the honest version of a harvest myth.
Known for
- death with an open throat
- the dry season as a wrestling match
- a struggle nobody wins
Dates are estimates. A great deal of what this atlas covers is only datable to within a century.