Yam
c. 1400 BCE – 100 CEattested
Ugarit
- Canaanite
The sea as a hostile power, defeated by Baal with two clubs made for the purpose. The same fight, with the same sea-monster vocabulary, echoes through Hebrew poetry centuries later.
Known for
- the sea as an enemy
- the two named clubs
- a fight that echoes into scripture
Dates are estimates. A great deal of what this atlas covers is only datable to within a century.