the piece I wrote after that last post lol sorry

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Tuesday, 27 November 2018

More religious text setting

This one comes from the epic of Baal, one of the texts that inspired the writers of the bible - as the Lord of the Rings series is to Game of Thrones, if you will. As well as being an important supporter of good, Baal was a storm lord, and these words come from a proponent of his, the lady of the sea, mother of all gods.

I've read some sources who claim that the Baal cycle was 'sanitised' by its translators, removing some of the more sexual content. This seems pretty sexual to me - and it's worth remembering that the bible's writers rewrote his character into the literal devil.


2 comments:

  1. I thought the tempo was appropriate, isn’t this the scene where Mot eats Baal to kill him???? Hence all the mouth terminology!

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