Pidray- Canaanite GodDeity"Girl of Light"
Also known as: Pdry
Description
After the storm broke and the sky split with thunder, the first thing anyone saw was the light — Pidray's light, brilliant and sudden, the flash that told the farmer the rain had come. She was the eldest of Baal's three daughters, each one a gift the storm left behind.
Mythology & Lore
The Flash After Thunder
Baal's household held three daughters, each named for what his storms left behind. Pidray was the eldest. Her Ugaritic epithet, bt ar, "Girl of Light," tied her to the flash that split the darkness when the storm god hurled his thunderbolts. Her sister Tallay was the dew that settled on parched fields between rains. Together they described the gift of the storm to the land: first the blinding crack of light, then the quiet moisture at dawn.
Pidray and her sisters dwelled in Baal's palace on Mount Zaphon, the great house of gold and lapis lazuli that Kothar-wa-Khasis built after Baal defeated Yam. When Baal sent word to other gods, he dispatched his daughters to speak on his behalf. They carried the storm god's authority with them.
When the Light Went Out
When Mot swallowed Baal and the storm god descended into death, the rains stopped. The flash of lightning that was Pidray's domain vanished with her father. The sky went dark and stayed dark. Only when Anat retrieved Baal from the underworld did the storms return, and with them the sudden, brilliant light breaking through the clouds.