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The Baal Cycle, the most famous of the Ugaritic texts, [1] displayed in the Louvre. The Ugaritic texts are a corpus of ancient cuneiform texts discovered in 1928 in Ugarit (Ras Shamra) and Ras Ibn Hani in Syria, and written in Ugaritic, an otherwise unknown Northwest Semitic language. Approximately 1,500 texts and fragments have been found to date.
The Baal Cycle consists of six tablets, itemized as KTU 1.1–1.6. Tablets one (KTU 1.1) and two (KTU 1.2) are about the cosmic battle between the storm-god Baal and the sea god Yam, where the former attains victory. The next two tablets (KTU 1.3–1.4) describe the construction of Baal's palace that marks his cosmic kingship.
In the Ugaritic Baal Cycle, tablet KTU 1.4 IV, Baal goes "to Lebanon and his trees, Siryon – his desired cedars" for construction materials. [ 21 ] The mountain or summit is referred to as Saphon in Ugaritic texts where the palace of Ba'al is located in a myth about Attar .
The Tale of Aqhat [1] or Epic of Aqhat [2] is a Canaanite myth from Ugarit, [3] an ancient city in what is now Syria.It is one of the three longest texts to have been found at Ugarit, the other two being the Legend of Keret and the Baal Cycle. [4]
In the Baal Cycle (KTU 1.1-1.6 [43]) Yam is portrayed as one of the enemies of the eponymous god, Baal. [44] He is his main rival in the struggle for the status of king of the gods. [ 45 ] The conflict between Yam and Baal is considered one of the three major episodes of the Baal Cycle , with the other two being the construction of Baal’s ...
The latter two are also known collectively as the Baal Cycle. All reveal aspects of ancient Northwest Semitic religion. All reveal aspects of ancient Northwest Semitic religion. Edward Greenstein has proposed that Ugaritic texts might help solve biblical puzzles such as the anachronism of Ezekiel mentioning Daniel in Ezekiel 14:13–16 [ 11 ...
Three verses in the Book of Ezekiel (Ezekiel 14:14 and 20 and 28:3) refer to דנאל dnʾl which, according to the Masoretic Text, should be read as "Daniel". This notwithstanding, parallels and contrasts with Danel (without an i) [9] of Ezekiel, placed between Noah and Job [10] and invoked as the very example of righteous judgement, [11] first pointed out by René Dussaud in 1931, [12] have ...
Not all of the tablets recovered were well-preserved and some of the tablets, containing the ending of the story, appeared to be missing. The tablets were inscribed by Ilimilku , a high priest who was also the scribe for the Myth of Baal-Aliyan (a part of the Baal cycle ) and the Tale of Aqhat , two other famous Ugaritic epic poems discovered ...