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Baal Zephon stele. The only instance where the Canaanite god is depicted in both image and language is a wholly Egyptian work featuring Ba'al Zephon. Eythan Levy notes a parallel between Ba'al Zephon and the "Asiatic Seth." Seth's attributes are horns, an ankh in one hand, a was sceptre in the other, and a beard.
Hadad was also called Rimon/Rimmon, Pidar, Rapiu, Baal-Zephon, [9] or often simply Ba士al (Lord), but this title was also used for other gods. The bull was the symbolic animal of Hadad. He appeared bearded, [ 10 ] [ 11 ] often holding a club and thunderbolt and wearing a bull-horned headdress.
According to Tabari, baal is a term used by Arabs to denote everything which is a lord over anything. [101] Al-Tha士lab墨 offers a more detailed description about Baal; accordingly it was an idol of gold, twenty cubits tall, and had four faces. [99]
The Baal Cycle is an Ugaritic text (c. 1500–1300 BCE) about the Canaanite god Ba士al (饜巵饜帗饜帊 lit. "Owner", "Lord"), a storm god associated with fertility . The Baal Cycle consists of six tablets, itemized as KTU 1.1–1.6.
Baal-Peor – master of Peor; master of the opening Baal-perazim – lord of divisions Baal-shalisha – the lord that presides over three; the third idol Baal-tamar – master of the palm-tree Baal-zebub – lord of the fly (satirical corruption of Ba'al-zebul - lord of princes) Baal-zephon – the lord/possession of the north/hidden/secret
Ba'al Zephon or Ba士al 峁phon, lord of the north. Alternate form of Ba'al Hadad as lord of Mount Zaphon. Alternate form of Ba'al Hadad as lord of Mount Zaphon. Bel , or Bol, [ 10 ] was the chief god of Palmyra, Syria whose temple was destroyed on August 30, 2015, by ISIL.
The biblical books Exodus and Numbers refer to Pi-HaHiroth as the place where the Israelites encamped between Migdol and the sea, opposite Baal Zephon, while awaiting an attack by the Pharaoh, prior to crossing the Red Sea. [1]
The form Ba士al Zephon was worshipped widely: his temple at Ugarit held a sandstone relief dedicated to him by a royal scribe in Egypt and the king of Tyre called on him as a divine witness on a treaty with the emperor of Assyria in 677 BCE. [13] It appears in the Hebrew Scriptures as Mount Zaphon (Hebrew: 爪驻讜谉 Ts膩f艒n).