Baal Cycle

The Baal Cycle is a Ugaritic cycle of stories about the Canaanite god Baʿal (lit. "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: