Baal the rider on the clouds.

Crazyguy

I have been reading the original texts from the city of Ugarit about the god El and his created gods mostly about Baal. Baal is described as rider on the clouds, defeated the seven headed serpent Litan. He then demands a palace be built for him on mt zaphon,a palace over a ten thousand fields built with the finest cedars from Lebanon. He then must go down to the underworld and defeat death another son of El's. Instead he is defeated and is like dead for 3 days. Any of this sound familiar? You know it does...

Witness My Fury

It sure does, another of those moments to go hmmm...

Once the bible loses it's magic aura of "Truth" you are on the road to recovery from the delusion religion really is.

OneEyedJoe

it does ring a bell...but I sure can't place it.

No wonder the isrealites kept getting in trouble for worshiping Baal. They couldn't tell him apart from Jehovah!

jam

crazyguy: have you seen "Zeitgist"? Free documentary online...

Made in 2007.....

Crazyguy

I didn't like Zietgiest because Gerald Massey the one who originally made those coments was lying or just plain wrong about several things. Him and guys like Zachary schitchen the guy that claimed the ananakki were aliens really screw up the search for truth. I watched zietgiest back about 7 years ago and if he would have been more accurate the light would have turned on for me back then, he didn't do me any favors because back then I could of got my wife out. She watched it too then I debunked most of it and now my wife is drinking the koolaid.

Witness My Fury

Man that sucks.

Crazyguy

Another thing I forgot to mention this Baal is named Hadad and the Baal the Hebrews were fighting against if you read the bible text about the Baal priests calling down fire then the Yahweh priest calling down fire and it works. This Baal may have been the Baal of that city, its listed in the bible can't remember, but this Baal may have been a completly different Baal then, Baal Hadad. I believe the Hebrews worshiped from the same pantheon as the Ugarits first El, then Baal and then in time these two gods kinda become one as well as some of the powers of the other gods like Anat a war god and sister of Baal. This melding of gods is not uncommon in the near east of Asia, the Phoenicians, Babylonians, Assyrias, Egyptians, Greeks all did it and all of thier gods are from the same original pantheon out of Sumer.

Crazyguy

Oops I also made a mistake about Baal being reserected in 3 days, he is actually a fertility god and does not come back to life until the new planting season spring. It also looks like his journey through the underworld maybe similar to Ra's journey. Ra's of course being the son his journey through the underworld only last over night were baals is through the fall and winter.

Apognophos

Thanks for the comment on Zeitgeist, Crazyguy. Unfortunately it gives the appearance of something very enlightening, but a lot of Zeitgeist is Bullescheisse ;-)

jgnat

I remember watching an episode of the Naked Archeaologist where artifacts around the time of Jesus shows a lot of intermixing of gods and beliefs. For instance, lamps ornamented with several gods. The idea of a Pure Israel kind of goes out of the window after that.

Baal the rider on the clouds.

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