Possible Early Sanctuary of El
Marvin H. Pope (Yale University) identified the home of El in the Ugaritic texts of ca. 1200 BCE, described as "at the source of the rivers, in the midst of the fountains of the deeps", with this famous source of the river Adonis and Yammoune, an intermittent lake on the other side of the mountain, which Pope asserted was closely associated with it in legend.
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“And early in the morning he came walking toward them on the sea.”
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The widespread double doors two stories high.
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