Arsay

Arsay is in the triad because of one line. The Baal Cycle names her once beside Pidray and Tallay, and scholarship has grouped the three ever since; the reference treatment is explicit that there is no evidence associating her with them anywhere else. Her name is built on the word for earth or underworld, which has produced two readings — groundwater or the world below — and neither has won. The record keeps her in the triad, because that is where the text puts her, and says on its face that the grouping rests on a single passage.

Parentage

• parent: Baal

Variant accounts

• Whether Arsay belongs with Pidray and Tallay at all rests on one passage.It is often assumed that the three formed a triad; the reference treatment notes that she appears alongside Pidray and Tallay in a single passage of the Baal Cycle and that there is no evidence they were associated in any other context. Her sphere is likewise unsettled between the underworld and groundwater.Reference treatment of Arsay, noting that the grouping rests on one passage and that neither proposed sphere found universal support. (secondary)

Domains

• earth

Relations

• sibling: PidrayGrouped with the other two on the strength of one passage; see the variant on this record.The Baal Cycle, the single passage naming the three together. (primary)
• sibling: TallayGrouped with the other two on the strength of one passage.The Baal Cycle, the single passage naming the three together. (primary)

Sources

• Arsay is a goddess of Ugarit named in the Baal Cycle beside Pidray and Tallay as a daughter of Baal, with proposed underworld or groundwater associations that have not been generally accepted.: Reference treatment of Arsay, her grouping with Baal's other daughters and the disputed reading of her sphere. (secondary)