The Baal Cycle is a Ugaritic cycle of stories about the Canaanite god Baʿal (lit. "Lord"), a storm god associated with fertility. The text identifies him as the god Hadad, the NW Semitic form of Adad. They are written in Ugaritic, a language written in a cuneiform alphabet, on a series of clay tablets found in the 1920s in the Tell of Ugarit (modern Ras Shamra), situated on the Mediterranean coast of northern Syria, a few kilometers north of the modern city of Latakia, far ahead of the now known coast. The stories include The Myth of Baʿal Aliyan and The Death of Baʿal.