The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions (494 page)

Canaan
.

Land which later became Palestine, promised, according to Jewish belief, by God to the Israelites. Early Canaanite religion is revealed particularly in the
Ugaritic
texts.

 
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(Skt., ‘vicious, fierce, violent’).
1
One of the names of the Hindu Goddess (also Ca
ik
). It does not denote a specific goddess and tends to be used with reference to the more violent manifestations of
Dev
.
2
In Bengal, an originally autonomous folk Goddess (similar to
Manas
). From
c.
14th cent. onwards, this Goddess became increasingly drawn into the mythology of the
pur
as
and thereby got fused with the Skt. Ca
(see (1) above).
3
In N. India, an alternative title of the Dev
m
h
tmya in the
M
rka
eya Pur
a