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The Baal Cycle is a Ugaritic cycle of stories about the Canaanite god Baʿal ( "Lord"), a storm god associated with fertility. The text identifies him as the god Hadad, the NW Semitic form of Adad. They are written in Ugaritic, a language written in a cuneiform alphabet, on a series of clay tablets found in the 1920s in the Tell of Ugarit (modern Ras Shamra), situated on the Mediterranean coast of northern Syria, a few kilometers north of the modern city of Latakia, far ahead of the now known coast. The stories include ''The Myth of Baʿal Aliyan'' and ''The Death of Baʿal''. ==Basic synopsis== The Baʿal Cycle series of stories are summarized thus: * Yam wants to rule over the other gods and be the most powerful of all * Baʿal Hadad opposes Yam and slays him * Baʿal Hadad, with the help of Anath and Athirat, persuades El to allow him a palace * Baʿal Hadad commissions Kothar-wa-Khasis to build him a palace. * King of the gods and ruler of the world seeks to subjugate Mot * Mot kills Baʿal Hadad * Anath brutally kills Mot, grinds him up and scatters ashes * Baʿal Hadad returns to Mount Saphon * Mot, having recovered from being ground up and scattered, challenges Baʿal Hadad * Baʿal Hadad refuses; Mot submits * Baʿal Hadad rules again 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Baal Cycle」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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