Mot (god)

Mot
Death and the Underworld
Fragments of tablets bearing the "Baal Cycle", a notable source on Caananite religion and its Death (Mot)
Ugaritic𐎎𐎚
Major cult centerUgarit

Mot (Phoenician: 𐤌𐤕 mūt, Hebrew: מות māweṯ, Ugaritic: 𐎎𐎚) was the Canaanite god of death and the Underworld. He was also known to the people of Ugarit 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 Philo of Byblos's Greek translation of the writings of the Phoenician Sanchuniathon.

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