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( Kothar-wa-Khasis)
Adonis | Anat | Asherah | Ashima | Astarte | Atargatis | Ba'al | Berith | Chemosh | Dagon | Derceto | El | Elyon | Eshmun | Hadad | Kothar | Melqart | Mot | Moloch | Qetesh | Resheph | Shalim | Yarikh | Yam | YHWH Kothar aids Baal in his battles, as recounted in the Myth of Baal, by creating and naming two magic weapons with which Baal defeats Yam. Kothar also creates beautiful furniture adorned with silver and gold as gifts for Athirat. And he builds Ba`al's palace of silver, gold, lapis lazuli, and fragrant cedar wood. One of his significant actions is as the Opener of the window through which Ba`al's rains can come and go to fertilize the earth and provide for the continuance of life. Kothar's abode is actually in two lands. One is the city of Memphis in Egypt, written in Ugaritic as h.k.p.t (read perhaps as "hikaptah") and means "the house of the ka of Ptah". Memphis is the site of the temple of Ptah, the Egyptian god responsible for crafts, whose name means "the Opener". Kothar's second land is Kaphtor (in Akkadian "kaptaru"), which is generally identified as Crete. In his book on the Myth of Baal, Mark Smith notes that there is a possible pun involved in Kothar's epithet "The Opener". According to the Phoenician mythology related by Mochos of Sidon, as cited in Damascius's De principiis (Attridge and Oden 1981102-03), Chusor, Kothar's name in Phoenician Greek, was the first "opener." Assuming the West Semitic root *pt h, "to open," Albright argues that this title represents word-play on the name of the Egyptian god Ptah.
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