Baal

chief deity of Roman state religion

Baal (), or '''Ba'al''' (), was a title and honorific meaning "owner" or "lord" in the Northwest Semitic languages spoken in the Levant during antiquity. From its use among people, it came to be applied to gods. Scholars previously associated the theonym with solar cults and with a variety of unrelated patron deities, but inscriptions have shown that the name Baal was particularly associated with the storm and fertility god Hadad and his local manifestations. The Ugaritic god Baal (𐎁𐎓𐎍) is the protagonist of one of the lengthiest surviving epics from the ancient Near East, the Baal Cycle.

thumb|Beelzebub's appearance from the Dictionnaire Infernal, akin to a [[fly]] thumb|"Beelzebub and them that are with him shoot arrows" from John Bunyan's ''[[The Pilgrim's Progress (1678)]] thumb|upright|Beelzebub as a character in the mummers play|mumming play St George and the Dragon'' by the St Albans Mummers, 2015

Enlil (Sumerian: dEN-LÍL), later known as Elil and Ellil, is an ancient Mesopotamian god associated with wind, air, earth, and storms. He is first attested as the chief deity of the Sumerian pantheon, but he was later worshipped by the Akkadians, Babylonians, Assyrians, and Hurrians. Enlil's primary center of worship was the Ekur temple in the city of Nippur, which was believed to have been built by Enlil himself and was regarded as the "mooring-rope" of heaven and earth. He is also sometimes referred to in Sumerian texts as Nunamnir. According to one Sumerian hymn, Enlil himself was so holy t

Jezebel () was the daughter of Ithobaal I of Tyre and the wife of Ahab, King of Israel, according to the Book of Kings of the Hebrew Bible (1 Kings 16).

thumb|Offering to Molech in Bible Pictures and What They Teach Us, by Charles Foster, 1897. The drawing is typical of Moloch depictions in nineteenth-century illustrations. Moloch, Molech, or Molek is a word which appears in the Hebrew Bible several times, primarily in the Book of Leviticus. The Greek Septuagint translates many of these instances as "their king", but maintains the word or name Moloch in others, including one additional time in the Book of Amos where the Hebrew text does not attest the name. The Bible strongly condemns practices that are associated with Moloch, which are heavil

Northwest Semitic word for "god"

ruins of a temple to Bel located in Palmyra, Syria

Hadad (), Haddad, Adad (Akkadian: DIM, pronounced as Adād), or Iškur (Sumerian) was the storm- and rain-god in the Canaanite and ancient Mesopotamian religions. He was attested in Ebla as "Hadda" in c. 2500 BCE.

son of Poseidon in Greek mythology

thumb|Depiction of the demon Belphégor, from J.A.S. Collin de Plancy, Dictionnaire Infernal, 1863 Belphegor (or Baal Peor, ) is, in Christianity, a demon associated with one of the seven deadly sins. According to religious tradition, he helps people make discoveries. He seduces people by proposing incredible inventions that will make them rich. According to some demonologists from the 17th century, his powers are strongest in April. Peter Binsfeld (ca. 1540–ca.1600), the auxiliary bishop of Trier and a witch hunter, wrote that Belphegor tempts through laziness. According to Binsfeld's Classifi

thumb|right|300px|Aglibol, Baalshamin (center), and [[Malakbel (1st century; found near Palmyra, Syria)]]

chapter 14 of the Book of Daniel in the Septuagint

Mesopotamian god

chief god in ancient Carthagian religion

Demon described in demonological grimoires

thumb|right|1st century AD relief from Palmyra depicting, from left to right, Aglibol, [[Baalshamin, and Malakbel]] Malakbel (Palmyrene Aramaic 𐡬𐡫𐡪𐡡𐡫 ) was a sun god worshipped in the ancient Syrian city of Palmyra, frequently associated and worshipped with the moon god Aglibol as a party of a trinity involving the sky god Baalshamin.

God(s) worshipped in ancient Canaan

mountain on the Syria–Turkey border

mythical creature

oratorio by Felix Mendelssohn

Levantine mythological cycle of stories

cape in northern Morocco

archaeological site in Syria

In the Hebrew Bible, Tophet or Topheth (; ; ) is a location in Jerusalem in the Valley of Hinnom (Gehenna), where worshipers engaged in a ritual involving "passing a child through the fire", most likely child sacrifice. Traditionally, the sacrifices have been ascribed to a god named Moloch. The Bible condemns and forbids these sacrifices, and the tophet is eventually destroyed by king Josiah, although mentions by the prophets Jeremiah, Ezekiel, and Isaiah suggest that the practices associated with the tophet may have persisted.

piece in the biblical Book of Psalms

roman deity

1990 video game

1953 film by Reginald Le Borg

cemetery in Tunisia

coinage used in the Temple at Jerusalem

novel by Arthur Conan Doyle

300px|thumb|Mount Ṣapōn

Babylonian god Bel Marduk - God of war

Adon () literally means "lord." Adon has an uncertain etymology, although it is generally believed to be derived from the Ugaritic ad, “father.”

1 Kings, chapter 17

open air ancient cult installation now in the West Bank

novella by Niccolò Machiavelli written between 1518 and 1527