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ANAT Goddess of love and war. Female counterpart
of Baal-Haddad. Anat often aids Baal-Haddad in his battles and takes his part in defeat.
ATHIRAT In the Bible, ASHERAH Mother of the gods, female counterpart of
El. Athirat persuaded El to give his blessing to a temple for Baal-Haddad after
his great victory over Sea, the god of chaos. Corresponds to Ishtar.
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BAAL-HADDAD "The Mighty," "He who mounts the
clouds." Son of Dagon, the corn god. The executive of the divine assembly.
Baal-Haddad dies and rises again so that the world may live. Baal-Haddad is the
champion of divine Order against Chaos. Lightening is his weapon, and he can be
found in storms and thunder. Defying Mot, the god of death, Baal-Haddad was
swallowed up by the god of death and taken to the underworld which Baal Haddad
laid waste after a terrible struggle. In the beginning of all things,
Baal-Haddad warred with and conquered Yamm the Sea, and so brought the unruly
waters of Chaos under divine authority and control.
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Note: The term "Baal" (alternate spellings: Beel, Bel) is
not a proper name but a title. It means simply, "Lord." To know the proper
name of a god was to possess great power, and so the proper name was often kept
secret from anyone who was not a member of the priesthood. Many local and
regional gods were therefore referred to simply as "Lord" -- Baal. The Baal of
the Bible is most often Baal Shamim, "Lord of the Skies." In Carthage, a
colony of the Phoenicians, the people worshipped Baal Hammon or Ammon, a sky
and fertility god whose symbol was the ram. The god of the Semitic nomad tribe
of Zebulon was the "Fly," or Beel-Zebul, Lord of Zebulon, often mistakenly
called Beelzebub.
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>EL "The Bull," the Father of Men, the Kindly One,
the Compassionate. Creator of all things, greatest of all the gods, father of
the divine family, head of the divine assembly.
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KATHIRAT "The Skillful Ones." Minor goddesses who preside over childbirth.
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MOT The god of death who rules the underworld amid wreckage and blackness.
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SKILLFUL AND PERCIPIENT ONE, THE The divine
artificer, patron of craftsmanship and magic. The Skillful One made
Baal-Haddad's weapons for the struggle against Yamm and built the temple in
which Anat and Baal-Haddad dwell.
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YAMM THE SEA Aslo PRINCE SEA, OCEAN-CURRENT THE RULER
God of primordial chaos, much like Tiamat and Coatlicue. Baal-Haddad's
enemy. Before the great combat with Baal-Haddad, Yamm terrified the divine
assembly of gods and sent emissaries to demand tribute from them. Part of the
tribute he demanded was Baal-Haddad as a slave. Infuriated, Baal-Haddad drove
the emissaries from the assembly hall, lashing their buttocks and depriving them
of all dignity. So the war began.
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