Anat vs Baal (Baʿlu Haddu)

The young warrior goddess of Ugarit, Baal's sister and fiercest ally, who wades through battle, bullies El into granting Baal a palace, finds Baal's body, and destroys Mot.

Anat is the most violent figure in Ugaritic poetry. In the Baal Cycle (KTU 1.3 II) she fights two armies, heaping up heads and hands, wading knee-deep and then neck-deep in the blood of warriors, before washing herself with dew and rain. She boasts that she has already defeated Yamm, the dragon Tunnan, and the twisting serpent. Her usual epithet, "Virgin Anat" (btlt ʿnt), marks her as a young, unmarried woman, and the texts are more interested in her ferocity than in any maternal role.

The storm-god of Ugarit, 'Rider of the Clouds', whose rain makes the land fertile; he defeats Yamm the Sea, builds his palace on Mount Zaphon, is swallowed by Mot (Death), and returns to life.

Baal is a title, "lord", and at Ugarit it belongs above all to the storm-god whose personal name was Haddu (Hadad). He is "Mightiest Baal" (aliyn bʿl) and "Rider of the Clouds" (rkb ʿrpt), and his voice is the thunder. Ugaritic texts call him the son of Dagan, a grain-god worshipped along the middle Euphrates, even though he lives among El's family; the tension between those two statements has never been fully explained. His home is Mount Zaphon (Ṣapānu), the mountain north of Ugarit now called Jebel Aqra, and one of the two great temples on Ugarit's acropolis is generally identified as his.