Judge Nahar

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Judge Nahar is an alternate name for the ancient Near Eastern sea and chaos deity Yam, often depicted as a powerful adversary of the storm god Baal.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf ancient Near Eastern deity
alternateNameOf Yam NERFINISHED
associatedWithElement water
associatedWithFeature rivers
sea
associatedWithText Baal Cycle NERFINISHED
attestedInLanguage Ugaritic NERFINISHED
conflictType divine combat myth
cosmicRole embodiment of untamed waters
threat to cosmic order
cosmologicalFunction represents pre-creation waters
culture Canaanite religion NERFINISHED
Ugaritic religion NERFINISHED
describedAs powerful adversary of Baal
enemyOf Baal Hadad NERFINISHED
storm gods
equatedWith Yam NERFINISHED
gender male deity
hasDomain chaos
sea
linguisticRelation epithet involving term for river (nahar)
name related to Semitic root for sea
mythologicalType chaos deity
narrativeFunction antagonist in Baal Cycle
opponentOf Baal NERFINISHED
parallelsWith Leviathan NERFINISHED
Lotan NERFINISHED
Tiamat NERFINISHED
relatedConcept chaoskampf
religiousContext West Semitic religion NERFINISHED
role personification of primordial chaos
personification of the sea
sourceType mythological texts
statusInMyth defeated by Baal
symbol rivers
sea
timePeriod Late Bronze Age NERFINISHED
title Judge
River
worshipRegion Levant NERFINISHED

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Yam alsoKnownAs Judge Nahar