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Mot | |
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Death and the Underworld | |
![]() Fragments of tablets bearing the "Baal Cycle", a notable source on Caananite religion and its Death (Mot) | |
Major cult center | Ugarit |
Deities of the ancient Near East |
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Religions of the ancient Near East |
Mot (Phoenician: 𐤌𐤕 mūt, Hebrew: מות māweṯ, Arabic: موت mawt) was the Canaanite god of death and the Underworld.[1][2] He was also known to the people of Ugarit and in Phoenicia,[3] where Canaanite religion was widespread. The main source of information about Mot in Canaanite mythology comes from the texts discovered at Ugarit,[1] but he is also mentioned in the surviving fragments of Philo of Byblos's Greek translation of the writings of the Phoenician Sanchuniathon.