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So... the Israelites did to Baal, what the British did to Napoleon. Made a parody that became so popular it overshadowed the original in popular culture.

I love how this story is about Baal but Anat is doing all the cool shit.

"How often should one have sex with a bull?"

"Not seven, but seventy-seven." - Baal, probably.

Baal: He copied my whole flow! WORD FOR WORD, BAR FOR BAR!!

I'm glad you've been able to keep the theme song; I hope YouTube has stopped messing it up

Ba'al: "NO WINDOWS! death can crawl in and snatch me!"

Also Ba'al after realizing he needs a window to send storms out to the land: "aw, fuck, FINE. FINE. ONE WINDOW! ONE!"

Poor Ba'al, from Bro, to rival to Demonic enemy. But it wasn't him who changed, everyone else did.

I can totally picture a teenage Ares having posters of Anat covering the walls of his room.

I really liked the whole "my sister is going to kick your ass" thing. Anat had it going on.

So even back then with Anat, mankind wanted Goths. The more things change, the more they stay the same.

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A bit of maritime tie-in. Sailors didn’t have a positive relationship with the sea until well into the 20th century and the development of ships that gave sailors a pretty good chance of survival. Even as late as the WWI era, sailors looked at the sea as a personification of primordial chaos.

"Semitic Kali" -- perfect. :)

The Corpse Of Death Itself would be a dope metal band/song name.

I went to Ugarit in March, I was the only person who seemed to be really, really excited by this. Guessing I was the only person on the tour to be subscribed to this channel! Their lose not mine :-)

The Spanish did the same to the native animist "deities" of the ancient Filipinos. The only god they didn't demonize was "Bathala" because this god had the similar role God had in christians, making it easier for the ancient Filipinos to relate, and eventually convert, to Christianity.

In addition to Kali, the description of Anat reminded me of the Mexica goddess Cōātlīcue in both of her most famous depictions.

Death: No man can kill me... Anat: I am no man!  
Also add the new Dr Who season finale to the list for the latest cooption of the killing death to bring life story

So I have a few interpretations that would change a bit of the Baal story.  Firstly, I believe that him having a son with a heifer is a ploy to trick death.  Death doesn't kill Baal at all but instead the calf that is born is made to resemble Baal and that is what Mot consumes.  Baal instead went into hiding because he was afraid of Mot.  None of the gods know this except for possibly/likely Shamash as she knows where to find him after El has his dream that he is alive.  Secondly, Ant specifically says that she killed Yam-Nahar (Sea-River).  It is assumed that Baal does this, but the text is broken and doesn't specifically say.  I would interpret along with what we have of some broken lines that Baal actually captures Yam but something happens and Anat ends up killing him.  Baal is still blamed by Mot who is the brother of Yam which is why he is upset with Baal.  Mot is mad that his own brother was given to him to consume.
On a side note, I will point out there are several Hittite myths about missing gods which are similar to Baal being missing.
I'll also point out that there is an Egyptian myth where Ra is upset everyone thinks he's to old to rule and ends up sending Hathor / Sekhmet  to kill a bunch of people.  The myth is extremely similar to Anat's killing spree in the Baal cycle which I don't think is coincidental.  I don't think the missing section of the Baal cycle would completely align as the exact same story, but the similarities are there.
Lastly, If you take the view that Baal and Yahweh are the same god then Elijah becomes a story about two groups of people worshipping the same god under different names and the contest is decided not by which god is real, but by which people that god favors.