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Hades vs Mot

These two are identified with one another in the record, which is not the same as being the same figure. The same equation reached through the Greek instead. Recorded by Wikidata (P460); not asserted by a text this corpus carries.

Deity · Greek · c. 700 BCE

Hades

also called Aidoneus, Plouton, Pluton

Ruler of the dead by lot rather than by punishment — a god of the underworld who is not evil, a distinction Christian cosmology cannot express.

Alignment
Disputed
Rank
Lord of the Underworld
First attested
The Iliad · c. 750 BCE
Named there as
Aïdes
Texts naming it
4
Powers attributed
3
100attestedGreek

Deity · Canaanite · c. 1400 BCE

Mot

also called Môt, Death, Muth, Maweth, 𐤌𐤅𐤕, מות

Death itself as a god, with a throat wide enough to swallow Baal. The later mouth-of-hell is this image, several cultures downstream.

Alignment
Disputed
Rank
God of Death
First attested
The Baal Cycle (Ugaritic Tablets) · c. 1400-1200 BCE
Named there as
Mot
Texts naming it
2
Powers attributed
2
60attestedCanaanite & Ugaritic

Where do they actually overlap?

Texts naming both

None. The two never appear in the same text in this corpus, which is worth knowing before accepting any confident claim that they are one figure.

Powers credited to both

Conducts Souls

Common questions

Are Hades and Mot the same figure?

These two are identified with one another in the record, which is not the same as being the same figure. The same equation reached through the Greek instead. Recorded by Wikidata (P460); not asserted by a text this corpus carries. ColossiansOne records the link rather than asserting the identity: where texts disagree about whether two names denote one figure, the disagreement is what gets shown.

Which is older, Hades or Mot?

Mot is the older name: first attested around c. 1400 BCE, against c. 700 BCE for Hades. Where the two dates are far apart, that gap is the whole reason the pair is worth comparing.

Do any texts name both Hades and Mot?

No text in this corpus names both. That is not proof they were considered the same figure, but it is why the identification has to be traced through the scholarship rather than read off a page.
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