Discovery · c. 1300 BCE

Myths of Baal at Ugarit

Ras Shamra, Syria

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Clay tablets from a port city on the Syrian coast tell how the storm god Baal defeated the sea god Yam, won a palace with the consent of El, father of the gods, and his consort Athirat (Asherah), and was killed by Mot, Death, until the goddess Anat cut Mot down and Baal returned. They are the closest surviving relatives of the religious world the Hebrew Bible grew from.

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