Canaanite Mythology
If you enough English to be reading this, you probably know at least a little bit about the Abrahamic religions. It's common knowledge that Judiasm was the first one, Christianity branched out from it, and Islam was influenced by both of them. There are a few other, more obscure ones as well, that are heavily influenced by one or more of these three. But if all of these religions originated from Judiasm, where did Judiasm originate from?
Canaan was an ancient civilization in the middle east that worshipped a pantheon of gods. The original Isrealites were a type of Canaanite, but unlike the other Canaanites they were henotheists, which meant that they believed in multiple gods but only worshipped one of them. Eventually, the Isrealites decided that there was only one god, and that the other ones never actually existed.
I was raised Catholic, and as a child the Bible stories that I read often mentioned the Canaanites and their gods. However, said Bible stories didn't go into very much detail about what they were like, other than that they were 'evil idol worshippers' that the Isrealites conquered. I think learning about Canannite mythology and culture has given me a fresh perspective on my religion and the stories that I grew up with.
