Baal Cycle
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The Baal Cycle is an Ugaritic cycle of stories about the Canaanite god Baʿal (lit. "Owner", "Lord"), a storm god associated with fertility. It is one of the Ugarit texts, dated to c. 1500–1300 BCE.
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The text identifies Baal as the god Hadad, the Northwest Semitic form of Adad. The stories are written in Ugaritic, a Northwest Semitic language, and written in a cuneiform abjad. It was discovered 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 and far ahead of the current coastline. The stories include The Myth of Baʿal Aliyan and The Death of Baʿal.