Approaches

The Baal Cycle contains Ugaritic poems about Baal, associated with rain and thunder, and his rivals for rule. The Babylonian Enūma eliš follows…

Hesiod's Theogony , the birth and genealogy of the gods, recounts the world's origins and the family in which Zeus becomes ruler. The Babylonian…

Indra against Vritra, Baal against Yamm and Lotan, and Marduk against Tiamat share a productive comparison field: dangerous water, a forceful divine…

Janus and Near Eastern gate guardians meet at one strong question: how does a community make passage subject to more than the traveler's will? The…

Osiris and Baal should not be filed as two copies of one “dying and rising fertility god.” Osiris is a murdered ruler whose body is recovered and…

Ragnarok and flood narratives can be compared through warning, collapse, survivor selection, and restored life, but they do not describe one…

The twelve traditions do not contain one universal “storm god.” They contain different relations among rain, thunder, river, sea, drought, crop,…

Trojan names reach us through a contact zone and several surviving layers: Hittite diplomatic forms, Anatolian names, Homeric Greek transmission,…