Mount Aqraa
The Keldağ ʿ, also Kılıç Dagi or Çebeliakra (Arabic جبل الأقرع, DMG Ǧabal al - ʿ Aqra, Bald Mountain ', also Jabal al - Aqra, Jebel al - Akra, Jabal al - Aqra; ancient Greek Κάσιον ὂρος; Latin Mons Casius ) is a mountain on the border between Syria and Turkey, near the mouth of the Orontes to the Mediterranean and about 40 kilometers north of the bronze Age city of Ugarit and 65 km south-west of the modern Antakya. The 1736 meter high mountain is close to the coast and serves as a point of navigation. Administratively the mountain is located in the district of the province of Hatay Yayladağı.
Importance
The Jabal al - ʾ Aqra was a holy mountain, who played a role in several religions.
Hazzi
In the Hittites Hazzi the mountain, which forms with the non- localizable mountain Namni a mountain divine couple, who acted as oath deities said. In the rock relief of Yazilikaya the weather gods Tarhunna is mapped, as he stands on two diffracted Mountain Gods. In Hurrian myth of the rock demon Ullikummi the weather gods Teššup rose with his siblings and Tašmišu Sauska on the mountain Hazzi to look at the growing out of the sea Ullikummi.
Ṣapanu
In Ugaritic myth of the mountain Ṣapanu was the residence of the weather-god Ba ʾ alu, which the Demiurge Kotaru built a palace of cedar, gold, silver and precious stones here. As Ba ʾ alu perished in the fight against the god of the dead Motu, he was buried by his sister ʾ Anatu on the Ṣapanu before they woke him by conquest Motus back to life. In Ugaritic lists of victims is Ṣapanu recipient of sacrificial animals.
Sapon
In the Old Testament sapon is called (also spelled Zaphon ) as a mountain in the north, for example, in Isaiah. 14,13 f The Hebrew word sapon "North" is derived from the mountain name because the mountain north of Palestine lies. Again, it is the mountain of God Ba ʾ al sapon ( בעל צפון; Exodus 14:2-4 ). In Psalm 48.2 f it is compared with Mount Zion.
Kasion
The Hellenization formed the Hittite name Hazzi to Kasion Greek (Greek Κάσιον ), while Baal Sapon as Zeus Kasios ( Ζεύς Κάσιος ) was worshiped until the 4th century on the mountain. According to Pliny, the mountain is so high that one night could simultaneously see from its summit of the rising sun in the east and the continuing night in the West by 3 clock. Aelius Spartianus, a possibly fictitious author of the Historia Augusta little reliable reports, the Emperor Hadrian spent a night on the mountain to experience this phenomenon, a directionally rotating storm but prevents. Even Julian is said to have visited the sanctuary of Zeus. Since the mountain was well visible from the sea, Zeus Kasios was also worshiped as the patron deity of sailors and so was spread to Egypt and Greece. According to one version of the Typhonsage Zeus fought Typhon on the Kasion. It has been conjectured that the name is derived from the name of Typhon sapon.
The southern Kasion
Pliny also mentions a mountain Kasion, which lies on the border of Egypt on Sirbonia lake, Sapon Baal was worshiped. The battle between Zeus and Typhon is alternatively also located here. As the cult of Baal Sapon had spread to Egypt, and the mountain name is likely to be hiked.
Swell
- Pliny Naturalis historia 5.12, 5:18
- Strabo 16.2.5 Geographika