Baal
c. 1800 BCE – 200 BCEattested
Ugarit, Canaan
- Canaanite
Storm god who fights the Sea and then Death itself, in tablets from Ugarit that turned out to share whole phrases with the Hebrew Bible written next door.
Known for
- combat with Yam and Mot
- the rider on the clouds
- rain as sovereignty
Dates are estimates. A great deal of what this atlas covers is only datable to within a century.