El

ʾĒl (written aleph-lamed, e.g. Ugaritic: 𐎛𐎍, Phoenician: 𐤋𐤀, Classical Syriac: ܐܠ, Hebrew: אל‎, Arabic: إل‎ or إله, cognate to Akkadian: ilu) is a Northwest Semitic word meaning "deity".
In the Canaanite religion, or Levantine religion as a whole, El or Il was a deity also known as the Father of humanity and all creatures, and the husband of the deity Asherah as recorded in the clay tablets of Ugarit (modern Ra′s Shamrā—Arabic: رأس شمرا‎, Syria).
The bull was symbolic to El and his son Baʻal Hadad, and they both wore bull horns on their headdress. He may have been a desert deity at some point, as the myths say that he had two wives and built a sanctuary with them and his new children in the desert. El had fathered many deities, but most important were Hadad, Yam, and Mot.
It should be noted that the Canaanite diety "El" is not the "El" mentioned in the Torah.
Category:Deities
Category:Creator deities
Category:West Semitic deities