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Maybe if the early hebraic polytheists wanted me to take their opinion on the matter seriously they would have written that shit down on a nice stone monolith LIKE THE GODS INTENDED
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E) Jokes aside, yeah I've been really into the bronze age cultic practices recently and am looking for more stuff to readI don't really have a lot of good sources, this is mostly all stuff I half-remember from asking my rabbi weird questions as a kid in yeshiva.
Here's another fun one, the name of Mot (ืืืช), the Ugaritic/Canaanite personification of death and god of the underworld, goes back to the Proto-Indo-European M-w-t, the word for death and the root of the modern English word Murder.
Sorry for late response, but how do you get from M-w-t to murder? I understand that the vowels are implied, and maybe see the route to "mort" but I don't know any old hebrew to understand the relation between consonants.
English gets the connection through Latin in this case.