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Fontenrose began his book Python with the words, "every god has his enemy, whom he must vanquish and destroy." Struggle is at the center of the experience of every living thing. A story of conflict would therefore be more or less universal in application. The oldest text dealing with the motif of struggle between gods came from the period of Akkad at the 24th centuty BCE. About 2500 year later, the Book of Revelation also refers to "a beast coming out of the sea with ten homs and seven heads."(Revelation 13:1). This paper studies on how the Old Testament adopts and applies the motifs of myhc struggles between gods attested in "Baal Cycle" of the Ugaritic literature. In Ugaritic the fertility god Baal struggles with Yam, Mot, Ltn, Tnn. The story has been explained in terms of seasonal, ritual, liturgical interpretation, and etc. The conflict motif is also adopted in the Bible. Yet, it seems to be contradictory because the Old Testament states monotheism thus rejecting existence of other gods. To what extent and for what did the Old Testament adopt the motif from the Canannite literature? In chapter two, reads and interprets the struggle between Baal and gods in "Baal Cycle." Four major monsters who fought against Baal were Yam/nhr. Mot, Ltn, and Tnn. These four monsters are also attested in the Bible, where they are personified as symbolic power of evil as discussed in chapter three. In chapter four, I pursues how the Old Testament adopts and applies the motif of myhc struggle. The four monsters in the Ugaritic literature appear in the creation stoty, historical events, and apocalypse as Yahweh`s opponents in the Old Testament. Does it mean that Old Testament accept mythological understanding shared by their circumstances without hesitation? The difficulty lies in that the Old Testament does not provide systematic explanation regarding questions of what we raise. In conclusion, I argues that the Old Testament adopt and applies mythic images drawn from the motif of struggle between gods in Ugaritic literature. This mythic usages of Ugaritic motif in the Bible are attested in creation (Isa 51:9-10, Ps 74:13-15). history(Exod 15:1-18), and apocalypse.(Daniel 7, Revelation 12, 13) its implies that the Old Testament adopted and applied the mythic images of Ugaritic literature for the purpose fo emphasizing of God`s sovereignty in Urzeit, Historie, and Endzeit rather than acception Ugaritic myth in a literal sense.