Jericho, east of Jerusalem in the valley of the Dead Sea, was named for the Canaanite moon god Yarik, and the village Atlit Yam, now submerged near Haifa, refers to the Canaanite sea god Yam (Atlit of the same root as Sidon’s son Atlas), both of those habitations supposedly 9,000 years old, yet considering they’re Canaanite names, and Canaan lived circa 2000 b. c., isn’t 9,000 years clearly amiss?
