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3/2/2026, 8:34:37 PM
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I agree fully that OPs post wasn't well thought out, I'm only speaking to the 'connections,' if you expanded to the other 'Pantheons' you'd see them everywhere. The Baal/El cycle is repeated through many Pantheons, "methodology" wasn't the right word. There were different local 'flavors' of every cult back then, they'd attribute pieces of their local supreme deity with the cult as they swept through. My point is that the same stories are being told across cultures, the "original" theology of all of these Pantheons were created from a pre-bronze age cult. As people moved away from the Homeland cultural stories needed to change to keep the same 'meaning' or overarching themes as something that could still be understood culturally. So the OG Sumerian stories changed in Egypt, those stories webbed out and cross pollinated the stories of the next culture that they interacted with (who also had their own threads of the OG stories) There are no "theologies" that are 'pure,' and the "Baal Hamman" of one era might be more connected to the idea of Zeus in its time, and might resemble Cronus in a different era. The Green Knight is a story that is spread throughout the ancient world the green might be seen as symbolically pure "regrowth" "spring" "renewal" in one tradition, while being seen as "rotting" "ghastly" etc in another culture. Another example "black" and "white" come from the same root for "flash," two different 'understandings' of the same initial event. Smoke/soot (white), smoke/ash (black). The Romans themselves actually made the connection between Baal Hammon and Saturn themselves, I believe Tertullian made that connection also in some of his writings. He claimed that the locals continued their ancient traditions, but under the name of Saturn. If I can remember I'll write it out in a way thats clearer, when I get home.
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