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The main characters of the Baal Cycle are as follows: [3] Baal, the storm god and protagonist, whose abode is on the Syrian mountain Mount Zaphon; Yam, the sea god and primary antagonist of Baal in the first two tablets of the Baal Cycle; Mot, the underworld god and primary antagonist of Baal in the last two tablets; Anat, sister and major ally ...
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]
ʿAṯtar is a deity whose role, name, and even gender varied across ancient Semitic religion. In both genders, ʿAṯtar is identified with the planet Venus , the morning and evening star. [ 5 ] ʿAṯtar is a prominent character in the Baal Cycle .
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.
Gupan and Ugar [1] (Ugaritic: gpn w ‘ugr [2]) were two Ugaritic gods who functioned as the messengers of the weather god Baal.They always appear as a pair in known texts. They are well attested in the Baal Cycle, where they carry messages from their master to other deities, such as Anat, Kothar-wa-Khasis and
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 .
Nasreddin (1208-1285) is a character in the folklore of the Muslim world from the Balkans to China, and a hero of humorous short stories and satirical anecdotes. [ 1 ] The four troubadours Bernart d'Auriac , Pere Salvatge , Roger Bernard III of Foix , and Peter III of Aragon composed a cycle of four sirventes in the summer of 1285 concerning ...