>>9960604Yes El = Cronus = Saturn.
(313) Eusebius - Preparation for the Gospel [E. H. Gifford]
1.10 - From Sanchuniathon through Philo
And Uranus, having succeeded to his father's rule, takes to himself in marriage his sister Ge, and gets by her four sons, Elus who is also Kronos, and Baetylus, and Dagon who is Siton, and Atlas.
And the allies of Elus, who is Kronos, were surnamed Eloim, as these same, who were surnamed after Kronos, would have been called Kronii.
1.10 - From Philo's "History of the Jews"
Kronos then, whom the Phoenicians call Elus, who was king of the country and subsequently, after his decease, was deified as the star Saturn...
(1965) William F Albright - Yahweh and the Gods of Canaan
Pages 119-120
In Keret we have significant information only about minor divinities. The head of the epic pantheon is the god El. El had probably declined in relative prominence during the second half of the third and the first half of the second millennium (judging from theophorous names of Semitic origin on cuneiform tablets ranging in date from the twenty-sixth century on). Yet he remained the active head of some local pantheons, and his name still appeared as the first component of such divine names as El-elyon and El-olam. But by the time of the composition of the epics he had become otiose. In this respect he resembled the Greek deity Kronos (with whom he was regularly identified in later times) as well as the Egyptian Re and the Babylonian Anu.
(1975) Carl Kerenyi - Archetypal Images in Greek Religion 5, Zeus and Hera [Christopher Holme]
Page 36
The pre-Greek god with the name of doubtful meaning, "Kronos," was the El of the West Semites and received from them the sacrifice of human children as part of the first-fruits offering made to him of everything that was born or grew.
The only thing I haven't figured out for certain yet is where this deity originated. Before Canaan that is. Certainly Mesopotamia. But attributes of An, Enlil, and Enki.
