ABSTRACT

The literary corpus found in Ugarit/Ras Shamra includes some 1500 administrative and religious texts found so far. One of the most famous texts is the myth of Aqhat, who was murdered by an assassin, and whose death was avenged by his family. Many literary and grammatical aspects of this text have been widely discussed during the last decades. They mostly treat it as a purely fictional story, which may not be studied in a real historical or geographical context. However, the mythological motives and imaginary stories of gods and heroes were created by real people, who lived in the real world. They grew up and lived in a physical landscape which must have had a profound influence on their personality and perception of the surrounding world, and it should not surprise us to find traces of this landscape in the mythology. We try to explain these discrepancies and propose the general historical and cultural background for this story and the way the Aqhat myth has roots in landscape of the Lower Galilee and Sea of Galilee.

摘要

在 Ugarit/Ras Shamra 中发现的文学语料库包括迄今为止发现的大约 1500 篇行政和宗教文本。最著名的文本之一是阿克哈特的神话，他被刺客谋杀，他的家人为他的死报了仇。在过去的几十年里，本书的许多文学和语法方面都得到了广泛的讨论。他们大多将其视为纯虚构的故事，可能不会在真实的历史或地理背景下进行研究。然而，神话动机和神英雄的虚构故事是由生活在现实世界中的真实人物创造的。他们在一个自然景观中长大和生活，这一定对他们的个性和对周围世界的看法产生了深远的影响，在神话中找到这种景观的痕迹应该不会让我们感到惊讶。