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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.
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 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 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 ...
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 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. [5]
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 ...
Pidray is the best attested of the Ugaritic goddesses regarded as daughters of Baal. [7] [4] It is sometimes assumed that she formed a triad with his other daughters, Tallay and Arsay, [4] though this view has been criticized by Steve A. Wiggins, who points out that Arsay appears with the other two goddesses only once in the entire text corpus, in a passage from the Baal Cycle in which Baal ...