El is not YHWH. El is the god of the golden calf. YHWH hates the golden calf.
http://www.dhushara.com/book/god/canaan.htm
There are legends associated with El that are not associated with YHWH. For example, the legend where El meets two hot young orphan goddesses skinny dipping and, being an old man and feeling a bit like a perv, offers the girls a choice - 1) to be adopted or 2) to be his wives.
That's not YHWH.
Also, from Wiki:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahweh#History_of_Yahweh-worship
In the 2nd millennium, polytheism was expressed through the concepts of the divine council and the divine family, a single entity with four levels: the chief god and his wife (El and Asherah); the seventy divine children or "stars of El" (including Baal, Astarte, Anat, probably Resheph, as well as the sun-goddess Shapshu and the moon-god Yerak); the head helper of the divine household, Kothar wa-Hasis; and the servants of the divine household, including the messenger-gods who would later appear as the "angels" of the Hebrew Bible.[53]
In the earliest stage Yahweh was one of the seventy children of El, each of whom was the patron deity of one of the seventy nations. This is illustrated by the Dead Sea Scrolls and Septuagint texts of Deuteronomy 32:8–9, in which El, as the head of the divine assembly, gives each member of the divine family a nation of his own, "according to the number of the divine sons": Israel is the portion of Yahweh...
Between the eighth to the sixth centuries El became identified with Yahweh, Yahweh-El became the husband of the goddess Asherah, and the other gods and the divine messengers gradually became mere expressions of Yahweh's power.
Originally posted by AThousandYoungWho cares? Not I.
El is not YHWH. El is the god of the golden calf. YHWH hates the golden calf.
http://www.dhushara.com/book/god/canaan.htm
There are legends associated with El that are not associated with YHWH. For example, the legend where El meets two hot young orphan goddesses skinny dipping and, being an old man and feeling a bit like a perv, offers the g ...[text shortened]... ther gods and the divine messengers gradually became mere expressions of Yahweh's power.