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  2. Baal Cycle - Wikipedia

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    The Baal Cycle consists of six tablets, itemized as KTU 1.11.6. 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.

  3. Ugaritic texts - Wikipedia

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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.

  4. Yam (god) - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  5. Ugaritic - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  6. Tale of Aqhat - Wikipedia

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    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]

  7. Anat - Wikipedia

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    Anat is portrayed in her usual role in the Baal Cycle, [115] a well known Ugaritic narrative poem preserved on the tablets KTU 1.1–6. [117] Sometimes, labels such as Baal-Anat cycle are used to refer to this work.

  8. Factbox-Donald Trump's lawsuits against media companies - AOL

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    U.S. President-elect Donald Trump is making good on his threats to go after the media in court, with several recent lawsuits seeking damages against major publishers over what he describes as ...

  9. List of Ugaritic deities - Wikipedia

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    In the Baal Cycle, he creates the weapons Baal uses in his battle against Yam [71] and later builds his palace. [72] In the Epic of Aqhat, he is the creator of the bow of the eponymous hero. [73] Kotharat: kṯrt [74] Kotharat were a group of seven goddesses regarded as divine midwives. [69]