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The Baal Cycle is an Ugaritic text (c. 1500–1300 BCE) about the Canaanite god Baสฟal (๐๐๐ lit. "Owner", "Lord"), a storm god associated with fertility . The Baal Cycle consists of six tablets, itemized as KTU 1.1–1.6.
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.
However, Baal of Saphon (the Ugaritic name of Jebel al-Aqra [10]) was most likely understood as the primary manifestation. [21] A series of Ugaritic myths known as the "Baal Cycle" describes Baal's struggle to attain kingship among the gods and his battles against various rivals, especially the sea god Yam. [22]
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 palace ...
The Baal Cycle or Epic of Baal is a collection of stories about the Canaanite Baal, also referred to as Hadad. It was composed between 1400 and 1200 B.C. and rediscovered in the excavation of Ugarit, an ancient city in modern-day Syria.
The text is written in the Ugaritic alphabet, a cuneiform abjad. (While this script looks superficially similar to Mesopotamian cuneiform, there's no direct relationship between them.) Not all of the tablets recovered were well-preserved and some of the tablets, containing the ending of the story, appeared to be missing.
Kothar-wa-Khasis is also mentioned in a hymn to Shapash which closes the Baal Cycle. [82] The translation of the terms defining his connection to the sun goddess is disputed, with a majority of authors assuming he is designated as a friend or acquaintance, while a minority opinion is to interpret it as a title recognizing him as an expert in magic.
In the Baal Cycle, Qudšu-wa-Amrur is first mentioned when Baal sends Gupan and Ugar to carry his request to prepare gifts for Athirat to Kothar-wa-Khasis, though contrary to early assumptions it is now agreed that he is not directly involved, and the messengers are merely told to pass close to his dwelling on their way to the abode of the ...