Danel (Danʾilu), 'the man of Rapiu, the Harnamite', is the central patriarch of the Ugaritic Tale of Aqhat. After seven days of incubation rites El grants him a son, Aqhat. When the goddess Anat has the boy killed for his bow, Danel curses the land into drought, recovers his son's remains from the gullet of the vulture-mother Samal, and mourns him for seven years. His fame as an exemplar of righteous judgment evidently persisted in the Levant, since Ezekiel names a Danel alongside Noah and Job.