Yam / Nahar

In the Baal CycleBaal CycleA group of Late Bronze Age Ugaritic religious texts recounting Baal’s conflicts, relationships with the gods and the building of his palace.Glossary · Click to read the explanation, Yam sends demands threatening BaalBaalStorm god and protagonist of Ugarit’s Baal Cycle; exercises active kingship while El retains importance and authorizes the palace.Glossary · Click to read the explanation’s position. Their battle ends with Baal helped by Kothar-wa-HasisKothar-wa-HasisCraftsman god in the Baal Cycle, supplying weapons and building the palace.Glossary · Click to read the explanation’s weapons. Readings of the opening give Yam El’s support, but damaged text limits reconstruction of the sequence.^[1] Yam is the fighting opponent; the episode does not narrate El’s deposition. The name refers here to a divine Sea figure, not to every ordinary mention of the sea.