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Baal

Also known as Baʿl, Baʿal, Hadad, Baalim, Haddu

massimo dio fenicio del tuono, della tempesta, della fertilità

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"Baal" was a title meaning "lord" or "owner" in ancient Semitic languages that came to be used as a name for gods, particularly the storm and fertility god Hadad and his various local forms. The god Baal is the main character in the Baal Cycle, one of the longest surviving epic poems from the ancient Near East, making it an important source for understanding ancient Near Eastern religion and literature.

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Deity.type: Canaanite
Deity.name: Baal
Deity.image: Baal thunderbolt Louvre AO15775.jpg
Deity.caption: Baal with Thunderbolt stele from Ugarit (Musée du Louvre, Paris)
Deity.deity_of: God of fertility, weather, rain, wind, lightning, seasons, war, sailors
Deity.siblings: Hebat (in Syrian tradition), Anat
Deity.offspring: Pidray, Tallay, Arsay
Deity.symbol: Bull, ram, thunderbolt
Deity.consorts: possibly Anat or Athtart
Deity.Greek_equivalent: Zeus
Deity.equivalent1_type: Aramaean and Mesopotamian
Deity.equivalent1: Hadad
Deity.equivalent2_type: Hurrian
Deity.equivalent2: Teshub
Deity.equivalent3_type: Arabic
Deity.equivalent3: Hubal
Deity.equivalent4: Set (due to being a foreign god in Egypt, since Set was the god of foreigners – otherwise Baal Zephon, equivalent to Baʿal Hadad, was also equated with Horus)
Deity.equivalent4_type: Egyptian

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Wikidata facts

Gender: male
Spouse: Astarte
Father: Dagon
Image: Baal Ugarit Louvre AO17329.jpg
Said to be same as: Seth

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Commons category: Baal
worshipped by: religion of ancient Egypt
topic's main category: Category:Baal
nickname: אלאי קרדם
domain of saint or deity: storm
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native label: Βάαλ

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Baal (o Ba‘al, in accadico Bēlu: "Signore") è una delle principali divinità della religione siro-cananea e fenicia. Figlio di El (Ilu o Anu in Mesopotamia, "Dio" o "Cielo" supremo), corrisponde al mesopotamico Enlil o Belu. Secondo il mito fenicio, la sua residenza fu il , antico Sapanu, ed era il tradizionale dio semitico della tempesta, a cui corrispondevano anche il controllo della fertilità e della fecondità. Nella mitologia greca Baal veniva associato al nome di Crono, poi Saturno dai Romani.Baalbek, ora nel Libano, deve probabilmente il suo nome al tempio dedicato alla divinità di cui restano imponenti vestigia.Baal, come molte altre divinità antiche, è stato assimilato come demonio nella religione cristiana.

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