Canaäd
- Fiction
- Publisher: Resource Publications (Wipf and Stock)
- Published: 2022
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Publisher's Description
"Gods against gods, men against men, each kind / against each other: Who is in the right? / Truly, which ones could ever conquer Death?" So Laeya--the Canaanite goddess Athirat masked in human form--asks after a crucial battle. Situated in the interimperial turmoil of the Late Bronze Age, Canaad follows this heroine's journey as it dovetails with that of Aqhat, a refugee from the Levantine coast. After tragedy casts Aqhat into the desert, a prophecy affords him the opportunity to slay three deities before the year's end and thereby become divine himself. Determined to right the wrongs of those responsible for his community's suffering, he and his companions join forces with Laeya, setting out to permanently revolutionize how mortals and gods interrelate--with consequences that even the gods cannot fathom. At once a speculative and historically attuned study of religion, Canaad brings the Ancient Near East to life in tangible and dramatic form, weaving together largely unknown histories and numerous fragmentary myths from a Canaanite perspective.
Endorsements (1)
“D. A. Wood prefaces his exquisitely wrought epic poem with the conceit—or perhaps the conviction—that he is heir to a translation whose original, through theft and inadvertence, has been lost. Canaäd translates, by way of informed imagination, the lost religion of the Canaanites. Think of it as the prequel to the religion of Yahweh. But in place of a triumphalist monotheism, Wood paints the pathos of single-parent theism. Canaäd is a mythopoetic masterpiece.”
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