#baal hammon

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B is for

Baal Hammon

Baba Yaga

Badb Catha

Bakeneko

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[during a thunderstorm]

Me: uohoho *lights on Ba'al Hammon's candle* uhoho heello my King :3 i tuought of you and-

[a lightning hits a tree on my street]

Me: FUCJJNCUCKCUCKFUCKCUFUCK

Ba'al: Good evening :) It's nice to be here. I missed you, songbird.

Me: *still shaking* Thamks

[lady-of-the-spirit]

Did anyone else notice that Baal's Recurrence happened in a playground? Because that's pretty fucked up.

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Issue 39 Bullet Points

•As illustrated in my post, once Laura temporarily ceased being the protagonist, Beth became her first stand-in. Both put their lives on the line at Highbury & Islington (check out how similar their respective four panels calling for The Morrigan are), and it’s where they meet, both having risked a lot to find divinity.

•Of course Woden knew Baal was Baal Hammon, but he appears to know of a big ritual. It’s uncertain if he knows what it entails.

•I might need to do a re-read, but it’s strange how readily Woden believes that Minerva just, out of her normal nature, is feverishly obsessed about Persephone.

•There is a surprising amount of time spent here hanging on Woden thinking about Cassandra after Minerva’s question. I suspect its usefulness as a beat will become apparent next arc, but it’s raised an eyebrow on all three of my passthroughs.

•The fourth rule is not much of a surprise. The nature of the rule itself certainly is.

•The pregnancy arc, beginning and ending in “Mothering Invention,” existing simply to confuse Ananke feels...possibly unnecessary? I’ll need to think about this.

•Did Ananke get 1831 Inanna under her thumb because Woden wanted children and Ananke wanted to put them under the impression that they couldn’t reproduce? Is this related to her (probable) trick on Baal?

•”She will sell godhood to the children, as I shared it with her.” Huh.

•“She thinks the story will save her, so she thinks a story will doom her. But the story is what carries on. There’s only one way to end a story.”

•While at some point I had mentally written off the end of “The Faust Act” as premonition of the end of “Fandemonium,” this has been difficult to reconcile with the mounting evidence that the gods aren’t gods until Ananke tells them so. It’s very satisfying to see that curious bit come back, and it’s great to see the beat that ended “The Faust Act” is even more important than we thought.

•Last month, I speculated that while Laura’s monologue pointed towards her descension, the thrust of the plot seemed to imply that something even more unique and unprecedented and divine was meant for her. Most seemed to to think the former was coming, as I eventually did. It turns out that both things came to pass.

[minus-moscow]

for @fyeahmyths summer myth event, day 10: african pairing

Baal Hammon and Tanit, revered by the people of Carthage and with roots in Phoenician mythology, they are the chief deities of the Berber people of North Africa. Tanit is a moon goddess and her consort, Baal Hammon, a weather god, is also responsible for the fertility of vegetation.

“I swam, the sea was boundless, I saw no shore./Tanit was merciless, my prayers were answered./O you who drown in love, remember me.” Margaret Atwood, from “The Blind Assassin”

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This may not make much sense but some symbolism stuff clicked for me after reading 1923 regarding a certain character. I know there have been theories for such a long time surrounding the motivations/actions of this character in particular but I believe firmly now with all the shenanigans regarding the identities of multiple gods that our 2010’s Baal is not who he says he is. It wouldn’t be that hard to believe especially as we have never seen Baal’s transformation sequence. We know Nergal has an association with Lions as his symbol but he chooses his symbol to be something more in line with Baphomet. In 455 ad we hear from the Vandal king of Baal of Carthage this is Baal Hammon. Cass suspects Baal of being Hammon but he says he is Baal Hadad. Baal Hammon’s symbol is the ram. Baal Hadad’s symbol is the bull. We know 454 was Hammon. In 1923 we thought the ram symbol belonged to Baal. But who we thought was Baal turned out to be Amon-Ra (this fits because one of Ra’s aspects is Khnum whose symbol is the Ram). This leaves Baal of 1923 with the Bull symbol making him Baal Hadad (“the good Baal). Why is Baal who claims to be Hadad using the symbol of Baal Hammon? Both are sky gods? Surely lightning would be in both their power sets but how does this set up tjeir personality/motivations. I don’t know what Gillen is doing here but there are a lot of misdirects going on - it is clear that both Baal Hammon/Hadad are part of the recurrence but we can only guess as to which our Baal is.

u/P-ckledP-nda

Posted on r/wicdiv on February 17.

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Where is the Melqart/Eshmun/Baal Hammon fandom. Cmon peeps i cannot be only one