Arsay

Arsay
Daughter of Baal
Major cult centerUgarit
Personal information
ParentsBaal
SiblingsPidray, Tallay, multiple others[1]
Equivalents
Hurrian equivalentAllatu

Arsay (Ugaritic: ‘arṣy[2]) was a goddess worshiped in the city of Ugarit in the late Bronze Age. Her standing in the Ugaritic pantheon and her role in Ugaritic religion remain uncertain. It has been proposed that she was associated with the underworld or with groundwater, though neither theory found universal support. She was most likely regarded as a daughter of the weather god Baal, though neither of the goddesses most often associated with him, Anat and Ashtart, was ever described as her mother. In a single passage from the Baal Cycle she appears alongside Pidray and Tallay, and as a result these three goddesses are often grouped in scholarship, but there is no evidence that they were associated with her in other contexts.

  1. ^ Schwemer 2001, p. 545.
  2. ^ Rahmouni 2008, p. 126.

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