===== Gods and other deities ===== * Apsu * An/Anu * Enki * Ki * Kigal * Nammu/Tiamat * Enlil * Ninlil * Nanna * Inanna/Ishtar * Ninurta * Utu * Marduk * Ashur/Assur (Aramaic: ܐܵܫܿܘܪ‎) / Anshar, patron of Assur * Ishtar, (Astarte/Eshtar), the goddess of love and war, patroness of Nineveh (Aramaic: ܥܸܫܬܵܪ‎) * Nabu * Nergal - God of the Underworld * Tiamat * Samnuha * Kubaba * Marduk * Ellil * Ninlil * Nisroch * Anu * Ea * Kishar * Sin/Suen * Ishara * Shamash * Adad/Hadad * Dagan/Dagon * Bel * Tammuz * Oannes, Adapa * Gilgamesh * Lugalbanda * Lilitu/Lilith * Pazuzu * Ninurta * Anat, virgin goddess of war and strife, sister and putative mate of Ba'al Hadad * Athirat, "walker of the sea", Mother Goddess, wife of El (also known as Elat and after the Bronze Age as Asherah) * Athtart, better known by her Greek name Astarte, assists Anat in The Myth of Ba'al * Baalat or Baalit, the wife or female counterpart of Baal (also Belili) * Ba'al Hadad (lit. master of blacksmiths), storm god, perhaps superseded El as head of the Pantheon * Baal Hammon, god of fertility and renewer of all energies in the Phoenician colonies of the Western Mediterranean * Dagon, god of crop fertility and grain, father of Baal or Hadad * El Elyon (lit. God Most High) and El; also transliterated as Ilu * Eshmun, god, or as Baalat Asclepius, goddess, of healing * Ishat, goddess of fire. She was slain by Anat.[1][2][3] * Kotharat, goddesses of marriage and pregnancy * Kothar-wa-Khasis, the skilled, god of craftsmanship * Lotan, the twisting, seven-headed serpent ally of Yam * Marqod, God of Dance * Melqart, king of the city, the underworld and cycle of vegetation in Tyre * Molech or Moloch, putative god of fire[4] * Mot or Mawat, god of death (not worshiped or given offerings) * Nikkal-wa-Ib, goddess of orchards and fruit * Qadeshtu, lit. "Holy One", putative goddess of love, modernly thought to be a sacred prostitute, although there is no evidence of sacred prostitution in ancient Canaanite cities * Resheph, god of plague and of healing * Shachar and Shalim, twin gods of dawn and dusk, respectively * Shamayim, (lit. skies) the god of the heavens * Shapash, also transliterated Shapshu, goddess of the sun; sometimes equated with the Mesopotamian sun god Shemesh[5] whose gender is disputed[6] * Yam-nahar or Yaw (lit. sea-river) the god of the sea and the river,[7] also called Judge Nahar (judge of the river).[8][9][10] * Yahwi may exist as an ending of some Amorite male names[citation needed], though the only Canaanite mention of Yahweh, found on the Mesha Stele, refers to the God of Israel contrasted with Chemosh.[11] * Yarikh, god of the moon and husband of Nikkal * Jahve/Elohim/Adonais/God/Allah