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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 ...
In the Baal Cycle he is portrayed as an enemy of the weather god, Baal. Their struggle revolves around attaining the rank of the king of the gods. The narrative portrays Yam as the candidate favored by the senior god El, though ultimately it is Baal who emerges victorious. Yam nonetheless continues to be referenced through the story after his ...
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.
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 ...
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Simon was born in Johannesburg, the fourth child of Emmanuelle and Phylis Simon.Both of his parents are of Jewish ancestry from Poland and Lithuania. [1] From a very young age, Simon dreamed of becoming the first South African swimmer to win an Olympic gold medal.
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]
Baal (comics), a Marvel Comics character; Bhaal (Forgotten Realms), a fictional deity in the Dungeons & Dragons: Forgotten Realms novels and games; Ba'al , a fictional character in Stargate SG-1; Ba'al, a character in Vampireology: The True History of the Fallen; General Baal, a character of the video game Grandia