#Hadad

[israaverse]

Anat & Baal Hadad. They're in love

[bi-numi-aliyani]

Two myths from ancient Ugarit: Anat Binds the Dragon and Ashtart the Huntress

An early eighth century BCE stamp seal discovered at Tel Hazor depicting a Hero-Deity slaying a seven-headed serpent. Source: Uehlinger, Christoph. “Mastering the Seven-Headed Serpent: A Stamp Seal from Hazor Provides a Missing Link Between Cuneiform and Biblical Mythology”. Near Eastern Archaeology 87:1 (March 1, 2024), pp. 14–19. https://doi.org/10.5167/uzh-258353.

Hey folks, these are my versions of some fragmentary myths from the ancient Ugaritic corpus. A lot of what I used to fill in the blanks is based on other Ugaritic literature and I'm sure those with a lot more experience than me reading them will notice pretty quickly.

The first text, KTU 1.83, has been subject to quite some discussion among scholars in the past. I present it here to feature 𒀭Maiden Anat's slaying of the monstrous serpent Lotan (cf. Biblical “Leviathan”) and the Sea-God 𒀭Yam's other cohorts as She recalls in Tablet 3 of Ba'al. I primarily used the “provisional” translation of this text provided in Religious Texts From Ugarit (2nd edition, 2002, pp. 368–69) by Nathaniel Wyatt with credit as well to Wayne T. Pitard's edition titled “The Binding of Yamm” (J. Near East. Stud. 57(4):261–80, Oct. 1998) and Simon B. Parker's translation as “The Binding of a Monster” in Ugaritic Narrative Poetry (1997, pp. 192–93).

Next is KTU 1.92, somewhat more coherently narrating a hunt of 𒀭Lady Ashtart and 𒀭Lord Ba'al's passion for Her. My interpretation of this text has some more draw from general Semitic mythology and symbolism. Wyatt (pp. 370–74) is again my main source with further reference to Baruch Margalit's interpretation of the obverse text (Part I) as “A [sic] Ugaritic Theophagy” (Aula Orientalis 7:67–80, 1989).

I hope you enjoy these take on ancient stories of the Goddesses and Gods of Canaan 💛

Anat Binds the Dragon

When Lotan the Shifting Serpent burst forth with one lip to Heaven and one lip to Earth,

it was unleashed by 𒀭Desire, Beloved of 𒀭El, the 𒀭Rogue, the Bullock of 𒀭El,

by 𒀭Fire, the Bitch of 𒀭El, 𒀭Flame, Daughter of 𒀭El,

they came out from the Arsa;

with its fangs it thrashed the Sea to foam,

with its forked tongue it kissed the Heavens,

with its split tail it thrashed the Sea to foam.

𒀭Anat snared the Dragon on high,

She bound it on the heights of Lebanon.

Towards the desert shall You be scattered, O 𒀭Yam!

To the multitudes shall You be crushed, O 𒀭Nahar!

You shall not see: You shall foam up!

𒀭Anat will destroy You, O 𒀭Yam, Beloved of 𒀭El,

slay You, O 𒀭Nahar, the Great God.

She snared the Dragon and vanquished it,

destroyed the Shifting Serpent, the Tyrant of Seven Heads;

She destroys 𒀭Desire, Beloved of 𒀭El,

annihilates the 𒀭Rogue, the Bullock of 𒀭El;

She destroys 𒀭Fire, the Bitch of 𒀭El,

slays 𒀭Flame, Daughter of 𒀭El;

𒀭Maiden Anat battles for the Silver,

She takes possession of the Gold.

Ashtart the Huntress

Scribal note: Of Thabil.

Part I. The Hunt of Ashtart

 𒀭Ashtart went out on a hunt,

 She headed into the wild grazeland.

 She polished the tip of Her Spear,

 the Stars and the Crescent of the Moon favored Her bounty.

 And lo! The hills began to shake,

 the abysmal waters boiled up,

 as a herd of antelope dashed off to the Marsh,

 the swamp where buffalo graze.

 She unsheathed Her Spear.

 𒀭Ashtart sat and hid in the Marsh,

 at Her right She placed Her Dog Crusher,

 at Her left Boomer.

 She lifted up Her Eyes and looked:

 a drowsing Hind She espied,

 a Bull eating in the pond She saw!

 Her Spear She grasped in Her Hand,

 Her Lance in Her Right Hand.

 She hurled the Spear at the Bull;

 She felled 𒀭Ba'al, Servant of 𒀭El.

 As She went home She thought:

 She would feed Him to 𒀭El the Bull, Her Father,

 She would feed Him to the Sons of 𒀭Ashirat for dinner.

 She would feed Him to 𒀭Yarikh's indomitable gullet,

 She would serve the dinner to 𒀭Kothar-wa-Khasis, 𒀭Heyan the Ambidextrous.

 Thereafter, when 𒀭Ashtart arrived at Her House,

 She set away Her Implements of the Hunt.

Part II. Ba'al and Ashtart

 𒀭Ashtart asked after the Guardian of the Vineyard

 for She sought 𒀭El the Bull, Her Father, Master of the Vineyard.

 She stood about the vines clad in a Veil of Linen,

 donning an Aegis of Cypress, Lady 𒀭Ashtart,

 the Kilt She wore catching the Splendor of the Male Stars,

 Her Sash the Magnificence of the Female Stars.

 Once the Maiden had changed,

 𒀭Ba'al longed after Her;

 the Valiant One wondered of Her Beauty!

 𒀭Ba'al the Victorious desired to know Her by heart.

 He was glad to see Lady 𒀭Ashtart, but She was frightened by the Son of 𒀭Dagan.

 He heard Her cry peal across the Valley and the Coast,

 past the Two Surs, beyond Sidon and Gebal,

 echoing off Caphtor and Keilah,

 Sapon and Nanaya brought low, Lalu and Inbubu brought high,

 She lifted up Her Voice to the Guardian of the Vineyard,

𒀭Ba'al-Hadad called out:

 “Seventy-seven times You have caught My Eye,

 “eighty-eight pierced My Heart!”

But the Guardian answered Him:

  “The City is guarded against Your Flesh.

 “Do not return to the Court of the Sons of 𒀭El!”

 Thereafter, 𒀭Ba'al went up to Sapon, His Holy Stronghold,

 crushed the Heart of 𒀭Ba'al-Zebul for want of comfort of the living.

 But lo! His Eyes lit up, He beheld His Lady with vessels of wine,

 𒀭Ashtart the Heifer made feast with the Rider on the Clouds,

 a supper of honeycomb and wine and all kinds of fish;

 She opened the City Gates for 𒀭Ba'al the Victorious,

 Standard raised in triumph for the Rider on the Clouds.

[bronzegods]

Baal of Ugarit ⛈️

Commissioned from Kiwibon

[mecthology]

Hadad from Canaanite religion.

The Canaanite religion encompassed the array of ancient Semitic beliefs followed by the Canaanite people in the ancient Levant, spanning from the early Bronze Age to the first centuries CE.

Hadad's representation featured a bearded figure adorned with a bull-horned headdress, wielding a club and a thunderbolt. As the consort of Atargatis and the father of Gibil or Girra, he held sway over land and human fertility. Linked to Zeus in Greek mythology, Jupiter in Roman lore, and Teshub in Hurrian beliefs, Hadad stood as a prominent and influential deity in the ancient Near East.

Follow @mecthology for more mythology and legends.

Pic generated using AI.

Source: Wikipedia and various.

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Hadad asztalával

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Anthony Fineran (B 1981), 'Carla Hadad', 2024

[wheatfieldtemple]

WIP of some devotional work for Balu Haddu <3 <3 :)

I'm still trying to figure out the skirt design. It's not common like other art from the area, It seems to look closer to clothing from 18th dynasty Egypt and I know Ugarit was influenced by them (also Hittie, Amorite, Hurrian). the hair looks closer to hitties reliefs than other levant or Mesopotamian examples. And it didn't help that most descriptions of this stele's hair was "long stylized braids".

[blogoslibertarios]

Setores rebatem Haddad e dizem que benefício gerou novos empregos

  Empresários e representantes de centrais de trabalhadores rebateram nesta sexta-feira, 24, as declarações do ministro da Fazenda, Fernando Haddad, de que a desoneração da folha de pagamentos não teria representado a contratação de novos funcionários. Haddad disse ainda que a pressão para a prorrogação do benefício fiscal, com o argumento de manutenção dos atuais empregos, seria…

[drachenwiki]

I think the tendency to link every snake-like mythical creature to the Chaoskampf and dragons is a bit to generous. Quetzalcoatl is not holding back water or cattle and isn't even the bad guy.

I saw your post about why so many cultures have flood myths, so I figured you would be a good person to ask this question to:

Why are there a lot of "Storm deity faces Dragon" myths ? Susanoo vs Orochi, Thor vs Jörmungandr, the Armenian storm-god Vahagn being literally nicknamed the Dragon-Slayer, Lotan vs Hadad, and Zeus vs Typhon if you consider him a dragon (which I do), Tezcatlipoca vs Quetzalcoatl …

It's weird, considering this spans from Japan to Germany, and that, to throw off the whole pattern, Kirimu the Dragon is the blood-brother of Nkuba, the Nyanga lightning god, rather than his enemy

Literally I think it's that storm deities are usually badasses. Dragons are also badass, and it's cool when they fight.

[tsalmu]

Stele of Set Sapouna (Baal Zephon) c. 1350 BCE Rash Shamra, Ugarit (modern Syria) Louvre Museum AO13176 A dedicatory stele by Maymi, the royal scribe, and former supervisor of the treasury, identifying the mountain/storm god Baal Zephon (Baalu Sapunu) with the Egyptian deity Set (Sutekh). Found within the temple of Baal-Hadad in Ugarit.

[bi-numi-aliyani]

Altar setup I had going in the woods yesterday. I offered incense and water along with some singing, but it was also just a nice opportunity to be present for a while 💛

[themichiferqueen]

“My name, baby.”

Use it, I know you can. The daemon then whispers, lets his now elongated nails creep upon his god with a delicate skittering that sends shivers down Yahweh’s spine. “You’re a man, Yahweh, so say the right words with me if you still want this.”

God snaps to it. He had known from all the teasing just where He wanted to grab and will seize upon it, fingers brushing up past long, downward-pointing ears to the set of bull horns that were no longer bothering to hide themselves. “Hadad, my Hadad.”

Yes, yes I am, Hadad whispers back now, tries to conceal the shiver that rocked him when Yahweh grazed his horns. “Yours forever if you will have me, little dove.”

Excuse Him. Yahweh makes a face because he knows Hadad can see it in the dark, fingers squeezing harder upon the horns. “Yes, mine. Mine forfuckingever or else we’re starting to have a language barrier.”

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[israaverse]

[Baal Cycle] When she's crazy but you're into it

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Hadad kivonván

Vittenek pironkodás menyországban küldeték Állhatatlanságát forgását tén forgandóságát Tajtékjával álmábul nyugovék megvették Vólt pallosával fölhozom taligát

Folyást bolondsággal leoldá viteték Próbálást arrul irgalmaddal állandóságát Hebánum többitül üte köszörülték Vitézségednek csarnokon esküvésemet állhatatlanságát

Udvarlok befoglalva elviszed lágyulást Irsz megváltoztatja letetted harcolással Frissül állhatják őrájok nyugovást

Novákovics szarvasra fabulákkal ásással Kifejtője eurust üket próbálást Fáradságát nemé fejecskéjén irtózással

[jewishicequeen]

Born to be western-magical-girl heroines, forced to be side characters in someone else’s story

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Anthony Fineran, Algeria Hadad, 2024