I. Name
Broken up, the word pair ‘mountains and valleys’ occurs in Mic. 1.4 in the context of a theophany: “and the mountains will melt under him, and the valleys will be cleft”. Until recently, the pair was thought to reflect the Ugaritic binominal deity *Mountains-and-Valleys (*ǵrm wʿmqt, *dḫur.sag.-mešu a-mu-tu[m]).
II. Identity
The alleged Ugaritic divine pair *Mountains-and-Valleys, frequently compared with a similar pair Heaven-and-Earth (arṣ wšmm, didimùidim, šamû-erṣetum; see R. Borg…