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7/8/2025, 5:58:00 PM
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>According to a badly mutilated text. Baal, son of Dagon, and his confederates attack El by surprise in his palace on Mount Sapan and succeed in tying him up and wounding him. Apparently "something" falls to the ground, which can be interpreted as the castration of the father of the gods. The hypothesis is plausible, not only because, in similar conflicts for the sovereignty, Uranus and the Hurrian/Hittite god Anu are castrated, but also because, despite the hostility he shows to Baal, EI will never attempt to recover his supreme position, not even when he learns that Baal has been killed by Mot. For in the ancient East, such a mutilation excludes the victim of it from sovereignty. Besides, except for text number, in which EI proves his virility by engendering the planetary gods, the Ugaritic documents seem to make him impotent. This explains his submissive and hesitant attitude and also the fact that Baal carries off El's wives, Asherah and Rahmayyu, wich could be a mirror of Dagon's and Baal's wives, Shalash and Shala
>When Hellenes encountered Phoenicians and, later, Hebrews, they identified the Semitic El, by interpretatio graeca, with Cronus. The association was recorded c. 100 AD by Philo of Byblos' Phoenician history, as reported in Eusebius' Præparatio Evangelica I.10.16. El (Cronus) is not the creator god or first god. El is rather the son of Sky (Uranus) and Earth (Ge), known to the Phoenicians as Šāmúma-wa-Ảrṣu. Sky and Earth are themselves children of 'Elyôn 'Most High' (Phoenician Ilib). El is brother to the God Bethel, to Dagon, Atlas (Thakaman-wa-Šanam) and to the goddesses Aphrodite/'Ashtart, Rhea (presumably Asherah), and Dione (equated with Ba'alat Gebal). To El/Cronus is attributed the practice of circumcision:
>"At the occurrence of a fatal plague, Kronos immolated his only son to his father Ouranos, and circumcised himself, forcing the allies (Eloim) who were with him to do the same."
>According to a badly mutilated text. Baal, son of Dagon, and his confederates attack El by surprise in his palace on Mount Sapan and succeed in tying him up and wounding him. Apparently "something" falls to the ground, which can be interpreted as the castration of the father of the gods. The hypothesis is plausible, not only because, in similar conflicts for the sovereignty, Uranus and the Hurrian/Hittite god Anu are castrated, but also because, despite the hostility he shows to Baal, EI will never attempt to recover his supreme position, not even when he learns that Baal has been killed by Mot. For in the ancient East, such a mutilation excludes the victim of it from sovereignty. Besides, except for text number, in which EI proves his virility by engendering the planetary gods, the Ugaritic documents seem to make him impotent. This explains his submissive and hesitant attitude and also the fact that Baal carries off El's wives, Asherah and Rahmayyu, wich could be a mirror of Dagon's and Baal's wives, Shalash and Shala
>When Hellenes encountered Phoenicians and, later, Hebrews, they identified the Semitic El, by interpretatio graeca, with Cronus. The association was recorded c. 100 AD by Philo of Byblos' Phoenician history, as reported in Eusebius' Præparatio Evangelica I.10.16. El (Cronus) is not the creator god or first god. El is rather the son of Sky (Uranus) and Earth (Ge), known to the Phoenicians as Šāmúma-wa-Ảrṣu. Sky and Earth are themselves children of 'Elyôn 'Most High' (Phoenician Ilib). El is brother to the God Bethel, to Dagon, Atlas (Thakaman-wa-Šanam) and to the goddesses Aphrodite/'Ashtart, Rhea (presumably Asherah), and Dione (equated with Ba'alat Gebal). To El/Cronus is attributed the practice of circumcision:
>"At the occurrence of a fatal plague, Kronos immolated his only son to his father Ouranos, and circumcised himself, forcing the allies (Eloim) who were with him to do the same."
6/15/2025, 6:09:45 AM
6/12/2025, 9:58:03 AM
>>507077951
this living god?
this living god?
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