Some New Divine Names from Ugarit

Abstract

Shamra (1961) has produced, for the first time since the discovery of the temple library in 1931, a new lot of Ugaritic mythological and ritual texts. Fourteen tablets of mythological, magic or liturgical character will appear in the forthcoming Ugaritica V in autography, transliteration, and commented translation by Charles Virolleaud.' With Professor Virolleaud's kind permission I shall briefly report on some divine characters and names in the new texts that appear there for the first time in Ugaritic literature, or in a significantly new aspect, and on the light some of them help shed on the origin of certain deities already known, or presumed, outside of Ugarit.