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Baal

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Baal , plural Baalim [Semitic,=master, lord], name used throughout the Bible for the chief deity or for deities of Canaan. The term was originally an epithet applied to the storm god Hadad. Technically, Baal was subordinate to El. Baal is attested in the Ebla texts (first half of 2d millennium BC). By the time of the Ugarit tablets (14th cent. BC), Baal had become the ruler of the universe. The Ugarit tablets make him chief of the Canaanite pantheon. He is the source of life and fertility, the mightiest hero, the lord of war, and the defeater of the god Yam. There were many temples of... Read more
Semitic Mythology

Semitic Mythology

Semitic mythology arose among several cultures that flourished in the ancient Near East, a region that extended from Mesopotamia* in modern Iraq to the eastern coast of the Mediterranean Sea. These groups of people spoke Semitic languages, had similar religions, and ...

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Baal

God worshiped in many ancient Middle Eastern communities, especially among Canaanites, for whom he was a fertility deity. In the mythology of Canaan , he was locked in combat with Mot, the god of death and sterility; depending on the outcome of their struggles, seven-year cycles of fertility or ...

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CT 13.33-34 and Ezekiel 32: lion-dragon myths.
; ...fighting Tiamat and the Canaanite tale of Baal, Anat, and Yahweh fighting the likes of...from the Mesopotamian sphere and reflects mythology older than Enuma Elish; the other is much...Judah's exilic period, and reflects West Semitic developments of the combat myth. The nature... Read more
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; ...the Bible. My love of and immersion in mythology does help, but I find, particularly after...variants, Tammuz and Ishtar; their West Semitic variants Tammuz and Astarte; their Greek...Adonis and Aphrodite; an alternate West Semitic pair, Baal and Anath; and the Aztec mo ther and... Read more
The Alphabet Versus the Goddess
; ...the Bible. My love of and immersion in mythology does help, but I find, particularly after...variants, Tammuz and Ishtar; their West Semitic variants Tammuz and Astarte; their Greek...Adonis and Aphrodite; an alternate West Semitic pair, Baal and Anath; and the Aztec mother and son... Read more
The Myth of Cosmic Rebellion: A Study of its Reflexes in Ugaritic and Biblical Literature.(Review)
; ...CR) against the Supreme deity of the Semitic pantheon, to be found both in the Ugaritic...descend to the underworld in pursuit of Baal (pp. 85-86, n. 94) has little textual...and, generally, ancient Near Eastern) mythology. Rarely has a hypothesis been presented... Read more

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