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by Micha F. Lindemans

The Ugaritic and Phoenician god of lightning and pestilence. His name means "fire" or "plague" and he spreads plagues and death. The Egyptians saw in him a god of war. He is portrayed with a shield, a club and a bolt of lightning. His symbolic animals are the vulture and the gazelle.