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Visual depiction of El

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Vol. IV · Monotheism

El

the ancient Semitic name for God


inscribed in proto-Sinaitic script on a Canaanite stone tablet, a radiant mountaintop at dusk, the cosmic father deity's name glowing

Organization
Abrahamic Monotheism
Time period
c. 1200 BCE – present
Location
Worldwide

Source attribution

This visual depiction is one of 1,947 in the archive — a creative historical rendering of how Names of the One God has expressed the divine. The depiction is interpretive, not iconographic.