br Baal was a title and honorific meaning owner or lord in the Northwest Semitic languages spoken in the Levant during antiquity. From its use among people, it came to be applied to gods, the Ugaritic god Baal is the protagonist of one of the lengthiest surviving epics from the ancient Near East, the Baal Cycle.
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br Known by epithets like rider of the clouds and Victorious Baal , he was associated with rain, lightning, wind, fertility, and kingship, and was often dep