Tradition Institution Mesopotamia and the Levant
Canaanite religion
Ancient Semitic polytheistic religion
- Also called ancient Canaanite religion
A path that branches,
meets and parts.
Schools and lineages
Branches · 1
Many paths. Shared histories.
What this means
Association and branching, in both directions. Traditions overlap, split and re-merge; this is not a single-origin family tree, and being listed under another tradition is not the same as being recognised by it.
Does not imply a clean single-origin family tree · that the parent recognises the branch
Imported from Wikidata. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
Recorded as a branch of
Overview
From Wikipedia, quoted unmodified under CC BY-SA 4.0; the article’s history is its list of authors.
Deities · 2
Gods and divine figures
What this means
Records whose own statements name this tradition — 2 of them. Computed from those statements, not curated here, and ordered by how widely each is linked across Wikipedia — those at home in the tradition’s collection first, and those with a picture first among the leading few — rather than by significance to the tradition.
A god named in a tradition is a figure of its accounts; a picture of one is a work of art, not a likeness.
Imported from Wikidata. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
Figures · 9
Begin with a figure
What this means
Records whose own statements name this tradition — 9 of them. Computed from those statements, not curated here, and ordered by how widely each is linked across Wikipedia — those at home in the tradition’s collection first, and those with a picture first among the leading few — rather than by significance to the tradition.
An affiliation recorded on a person is a third party’s record, often of one period of a life — not that person’s belief at every point in it.
Imported from Wikidata. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
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Ahab918 BCE – 852 BCE · King of Israel, the son and successor of Omri, and the husband of Jezebel (1 Kings 16) -
Athaliahtraditionally c. 898 BCE – c. 835 BCE · Queen of Judah -
Ruthtraditionally 14th century BCE – c. 13th century BCE · protagonist of the Book of Ruth in the Hebrew Bible -
Omric. 940 BCE – 874 BCE · sixth King of Israel -
Delilahtraditionally 11th century BCE · woman described in the Book of Judges -
Jehoram870 BCE – 841 BCE · King of Ancient Israel -
Jethrotraditionally 15th century BCE – 14th century BCE · Biblical character, father-in-law of Moses -
Witch of Endortraditionally 11th century BCE – 10th century BCE · biblical character (First Book of Samuel) - Ben-Hadad Itraditionally c. 936 BCE – c. the 870s BCE · King of Aram Damascus (First Book of Kings)
Places · 1
Places and sites
What this means
Records whose own statements name this tradition — 1 of them. Computed from those statements, not curated here, and ordered by how widely each is linked across Wikipedia — those at home in the tradition’s collection first, and those with a picture first among the leading few — rather than by significance to the tradition.
A place that names a tradition may be a temple or a whole province. Either way it is not a count of believers, and not evidence of practice in every period.
Imported from Wikidata. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
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Connections
How Canaanite religion connects
Grouped by the kind of relationship, because a successor is not a son and a shared symbol is not an influence.
Affiliation 1
What this means
Association with a tradition or school. Traditions branch, overlap and re-merge; this is not a clean single-origin tree.
Does not imply a fixed roster · that every account of the tradition knows this figure
Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
Sources
Sources and evidence
Where every statement on this page comes from, and how each one stands.
2 statements on this record
- 2 Imported Taken from Wikidata as it stands. Nobody here has read it.
Only this record’s own statements. What other records say about it is counted on theirs.
Three layers, three licences
- Text
- Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0, quoted, not merged
Review
Not yet read by an editor here. Every relationship on this page is an import.
Disagreements are kept, not resolved, and a count of sources is not a confidence score.
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