Hostname: page-component-78c5997874-fbnjt Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-11-16T12:16:13.224Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Folklore Motifs in Canaanite Myth

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 March 2011

T. H. Gaster
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Extract

The Canaanite poem of Aliyan Ba'al and Mot, discovered at Ras Shamra (Ugarit), is now familiar to most students of ancient Semitic literature. As I have repeatedly pointed out, it is the libretto of a seasonal pantomime representing the victory of Rain over Drought. By comparison with the Arabic terms ba'l and mawulh, the names of the two antagonists may be rendered “Sir Rain” and “Sir Drought”.

Type
Articles
Information
Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society , Volume 76 , Issue 1-2 , April 1944 , pp. 30 - 51
Copyright
Copyright © The Royal Asiatic Society 1944

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

page 50 note a Cf. Arabio .

page 50 note b Cf. Arabic Heb. (Jos. xv, 44).

page 50 note c Cf. Akk. mašaru; S. Arab. )

page 50 note d See JRAS., 1935, 39, n. (a).

page 50 note e Cf. Akkd. maḫû. “hie”, as I first pointed out in JRAS., 1935, 19, n. 62

page 50 note f Egyptian Ḥikuptaḥ, “House of Ptah,” i.e. Memphis. The name is chosen because Koshar, the artisan, is virtually equivalent to Ptah.

page 50 note g Heb. . Weidner has recently suggested (AJA., 1939) that may be the equivalent of Greek κύθειρα.