Anat vs Mot

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.

Death personified, whose throat reaches to the heavens and whose lip touches the earth, who swallows Baal and is himself destroyed by Anat and then fights Baal to a standstill.

Mot is death itself, not a ruler of the dead. The Baal Cycle gives him an enormous appetite: one lip to the earth, one lip to the heavens, a tongue to the stars (KTU 1.5 II), and a craving that the text compares to a lion's hunger and a dolphin's thirst. His city is Hmry ("Miry" or "Muddy"), where he sits on a throne in a land of filth, and messengers are warned not to come too close in case he swallows them.