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In religious texts, Ba‘al /Hadad is the lord of the sky who governs rain and crops, master of fertility and protector of life and growth. His absence brings drought, starvation, and chaos. Texts of the Baal Cycle from Ugarit are fragmentary and assume much background knowledge.
The Baal Cycle is an Ugaritic text (c. 1500–1300 BCE) about the Canaanite god Baʿal (lit. "Owner", "Lord"), a storm god associated with fertility. 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 ...
Mesopotamian. Religions of the ancient Near East. v. t. e. Baal (/ ˈbeɪ.əl, ˈbɑː.əl /), [6][a] or Baʻal, [b] was a title and honorific meaning 'owner' or ' lord ' in the Northwest Semitic languages spoken in the Levant during antiquity. From its use among people, it came to be applied to gods. [11]
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.
Yarikh. v. t. e. Baʿal Berith (Hebrew: בעל ברית, lit. ' Baʿal of the Covenant') and El Berith (Hebrew: אל ברית, lit. 'God of the Covenant') are titles of a god or gods worshiped in Shechem, in ancient Canaan, according to the Bible. The term for "covenant" (Hebrew: ברית, romanized: bərīt) appears also in Ugaritic texts ...
Baal Zephon stele. The only instance where the Canaanite god is depicted in both image and language is a wholly Egyptian work featuring Ba'al Zephon. Eythan Levy notes a parallel between Ba'al Zephon and the "Asiatic Seth." Seth's attributes are horns, an ankh in one hand, a was sceptre in the other, and a beard.
Richard J. Clifford nonetheless proposes the identification of Baal-Malagê as a title of the craftsman god. [113] However, he admits this deity is “elusive”. [114] Aaron J. Brody instead views him as an aspect of the weather god Baal associated with seafaring. [115] and rules out a connection with any version of Kothar-wa-Khasis. [116]
Baal Cycle. Legend of Keret. Tale of Aqhat. v. t. e. 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] It dates to approximately 1350 BCE.