Malaysian judges under pressure from religious groups have stopped Christians from using the term Allah to describe their slightly different god. While this appears to reflect political and social difference, the term comes from ancient Canaan several thousand years ago and was used for the prominent deity. The original Hebrew god probably went under the name as of course did the chief god of the time BAAL. It was it seems a common term for a leading god.
It seems likely that the god/s of the present day had their beginnings in c1550 BCE, in religious and political ideas of present day Syrian and Lebanon, based upon or in the locality of Ugarit, an ancient city. In the early El/Al religions women were extremely prominent if not equal to the leading god, who was a god of war in some form or another. This role some might say El/Al still has.
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