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List of Gods : "Goddess20Sasuratum" - 3 records

Name ▲▼	Origin ▲▼	Description ▲▼
Goddess name "BAAL (lord)"	Western Semitic / Canaanite / northern Israel, Lebanon / later Egypt	vegetation deity and national god. Baal may have originated in pre-agricultural times as god of storms and Rain. He is the son of DAGAN and in turn is the father of seven storm gods, the Baalim of the Vetus Testamentum, and seven midwife goddesses, the SASURATUM. He is considered to have been worshiped from at least the nineteenth century BC. Later he became a vegetation god concerned with fertility of the land. From the mid-sixteenth century BC in the Egyptian New kingdom, Baal enjoyed a significant cult following, but the legend of his demise and restoration was never equated with that of OSIRIS. In the Greco-Roman period, Baal became åśśimilated in the Palestine region with ZEUS and JUPITER, but as a Punic deity [Carthage] he was allied with SATURNUS, the god of seed-sowing....
Goddess name "Sasuratum"	Canaan	These are midwife goddesses, they are seven in number
Goddess name "Sasuratum"	Western Semitic / Canaanite	Midwife goddesses. A group of seven female deities fathered by BAAL. Also Kosharot (Hebrew)....

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