Tunnanu

Tunnanu is the word the Hebrew Bible keeps using and the King James Version keeps translating as 'whale' or 'dragon' depending on the verse. At Ugarit he is one of the things Anat has killed, listed in the speech where she recites her victories — Yam, the fugitive serpent, the seven-headed one — and the list is close enough to Psalm 74 that the psalm reads as the same catalogue with a different god's name at the top. Whether Tunnanu and Lotan are two monsters or one monster twice named is not settled; both are recorded, because the text names both.

Domains

• chaos

Relations

• enemy: AnatKilled by Anat, in the speech where she lists what she has already destroyed. The reciprocal edge is added to Anat's own record in this pass, since `enemy` is symmetric.Reference treatment of Anat's catalogue of victories, in which she strikes down the seven heads of Tunnanu. (secondary)
• subordinate to: YamOne of the sea's creatures, listed with Yam in Anat's catalogue.Reference treatment of the sea monsters of the Ugaritic texts as belonging to the sea. (secondary)

Sources

• Tunnanu is an Ugaritic sea monster, the tannin, whose seven heads Anat strikes down, and the direct antecedent of the tannin of the Hebrew Bible.: Reference treatments of Tunnanu, of Anat's catalogue of victories and of the biblical parallels. (secondary)