n.
West Semitic god of crop fertility, father of Baal .
He was the mythical inventor of the plow. He had an important temple at Ras Shamra and at sanctuaries in Palestine, where he was known as a god of the Philistines. At Ras Shamra he was second only to El , though Baal assumed his functions as vegetation god by 0441; 1500 BC.