Ewww! I had no idea. I guess it was a fortuitous accident to joke about a connection between the two. While not the same, both “societies” are/were cruel, disgusting and vile.
Yeah, bit of trivia, but the Jewish prohibition against mixing dairy and meat comes from this practice.
The Torah specifically provides that a calf not be “boiled in its mother’s milk” because (IMHO) of the Cannanite practices. (Think about that next time you eat veal in cream sauce; I’m barely kosher, but that makes my skin crawl.)
It expanded to all meat and milk to avoid doing this by accident, but also because doing so, just in general, showed a disregard between life and death -— life giving milk being used as agent of death.
It’s a bit of a peak into the foulness that was the Cannanite culture.
People wondering why the early Hebrews were such hardcases forget what they were fighting.