Resumen de il and hrn: Divine Power vs. Magic. A New Look at KTU 1.100
A partially new translation of KTU 1.100 is offered here, in which the opposition between the "canonical" and the "supra-canonical" conceptions of the power of the gods and of "magic", comes in the foreground. The text turns out to be a mythical performance of this opposition, disguised as a conflict of competences between the gods of the pantheon and a newcomer, the god "hrn (Hôranu) the only one able to cope with the danger of the snakebite that apparently threatens horses, celestial offspring of the applier, as a general symbol of magic power. The text ends with a theogamy that celebrates the wedding of the chthonic god hrn and a daughter of the Sun, the mother of horses, allowing in this way the inclusion of the god of magic into "il's" pantheon and unifying both divine power systems. The text must then be taken not as a specific incantation text, but as an aetiology or foundation myth that complements the Ugaritic conception of the religious universe.
