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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.
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 ...
In myths his residences are Caphtor and Memphis. [70] 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]
Furthermore, a myth focused on him, the Song of the Sea, deals with similar themes as the Yam section of the Baal Cycle. [215] Its central theme is the conflict between a weather god, Teššub, and the sea god. [216] The performance of the Song of the Sea was linked to the ritual role of Mount Saphon, referred to as Ḫazzi in this context. [215]
The Ugaritic language is attested in texts from the 14th through the 12th century BC. The city of Ugarit was destroyed roughly 1190 BC. [14]Literary texts discovered at Ugarit include the Legend of Keret, the legends of Danel, the Myth of Baal-Aliyan, and the Death of Baal.
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 ...
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]