Episode 066 - The Baal Cycle & The Yahweh Evidence Scholars Ignore

A storm-god rising, a sea-god demanding tribute, and a seven-headed serpent twisting beneath the deep. But does this ancient Ugaritic myth reveal a forgotten shared memory behind the Bible?What we talk about in this episode:📜 The Characters & the Tablets• Baal, El, Asherah, Anat, Mot, Yamm, Shapash, Kothar-wa-Hasis• Why the Baal Cycle survives in fragments — and what we can still reconstruct• Ugaritic as a linguistic cousin to Hebrew (think American vs. Australian English centuries apart)⚔️ Baal’s Rise & Fall• Baal vs. Yamm: the storm-god defeating the sea-god• Baal’s cedar palace and why kingship required a temple• Baal vs. Mot: death, drought, resurrection, and the cosmic cycle of life🐍 The Seven-Headed Serpent & Shared Motifs• Lotan/Leviathan parallels: Isaiah 27, Revelation, Ninurta, and chaos-dragon traditions• Influence vs. shared memory — the real methodological question scholars avoid🏺 Biblical & Linguistic Parallels• El in a tent vs. Yahweh in a tabernacle• Messenger motifs, storm-god imagery, and the “Cloud Rider” theme• THMT in the Baal Cycle debunking the Tiamat = tehom claim🔥 A Surprising Twist: YW in the Baal Cycle?• A deity named “Yw” appears as El’s son — strikingly close to the root of Yahweh• Not proof, but a possibility that critical scholarship rarely acknowledges🎙️ Plus: Methodology, logical consistency, and why parallels alone don’t prove borrowing.M Quad Links Support the show! https://buymeacoffee.com/m.quad.musingsDiscord server invite: https://discord.gg/yzfH3KEjY9Sources:Mark S. SmithOrigins of Biblical Monotheism: Israel’s Polytheistic Background and the Ugaritic TextsGod in Translation: Deities in Cross-Cultural Discourse in the Biblical WorldMichael David CooganStories from Ancient CanaanSimon B. Parker (ed.)Ugaritic Narrative Poetry—with contributions by: Mark Smith, Dennis Pardee, et al.John HayesA Manual of Sumerian Grammar and Texts