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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.
The form Baʿal 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. [12] It appears in the Hebrew Scriptures as Mount Zaphon (Hebrew: צפון Tsāfōn).
Alternatively, Ba' al is a divine co-regent with El, where El was the executive while Ba' al was the sustainer of the cosmos. [ 34 ] The Baʿal of Ugarit was the epithet of Hadad, but as time passed, the epithet became the god's name while Hadad became the epithet. [ 35 ]
Ba'al is a generic term meaning master; it can also be translated "Lord". In the Bible, it is frequently a reference to Hadad , although it is sometimes used to refer to other specific deities, including Yahweh , and on other occasions is used to refer to an arbitrary lord of this area .
Baal-zephon (בעל צפון Hebrew) is a semitic phrase refering to the power of the air in the form of a storm or . The name referred to a prominent landmark at the Red Sea next to Pi-hahiroth (Egyptian for the mouth of the gulf) and Migdol , (high place) where the Hebrews (Israelites) made their Passage of the Red Sea in their [ Exodus ...
The main characters of the Baal Cycle are as follows: [3] Baal, the storm god and protagonist, whose abode is on the Syrian mountain Mount Zaphon; Yam, the sea god and primary antagonist of Baal in the first two tablets of the Baal Cycle; Mot, the underworld god and primary antagonist of Baal in the last two tablets; Anat, sister and major ally ...
Articles relating to Baal, a title and honorific meaning "owner," "lord" in the Northwest Semitic languages spoken in the Levant during antiquity. From its use among people, it came to be applied to gods. The title is particularly associated with the storm and fertility god Hadad.
Beelzebub or Ba'al Zebub (/ b iː ˈ ɛ l z ə b ʌ b, ˈ b iː l-/ [1] bee-EL-zə-bub, BEEL-; Hebrew: בַּעַל־זְבוּב Baʿal-zəḇūḇ), also spelled Beelzebul or Belzebuth, and occasionally known as the Lord of the Flies, is a name derived from a Philistine god, formerly worshipped in Ekron.