Baal

Baal


 * Other Names:**

Bar, Balu


 * Meaning of Name:**

"Lord"


 * Hieroglyphics:**




 * Titles:**

"Master of the Sky"

"Rider of the Clouds"

"Voice of Thunder"


 * Family:**

His wife was thought to be Anat or Astarte.

Baal was a god of Syrian origin who was absorbed into the Egyptian pantheon during the 18th Dynasty. He was a god of storms and warriors, associated with Set. In the narratives of the Battle of Kadesh, Ramses II was said to have "fought like Baal himself." The war cry of Ramses III was said to be like "Baal in the sky," the thunder which makes the mountains shake. Later kings referred to themselves as "brave and mighty as Baal in the sky." Baal was depicted as a bull or as a warrior with a curved, Syrian-style beard wearing the White Crown and carrying various weapons such as a sword, a club made from a cedar tree, or a thunderbolt. Sometimes Baal was shown riding in a chariot drawn by horses.


 * Outside of Egypt:**

By 1400 B.C.E., Baal was an important god to the Canaanites and is mentioned in the Bible as a competitor with Yahweh for the affections of the Israelites. "And they forsook the Lord and worshiped Baal and Ashtoreth" (Judges 2:13) "And the People did what was evil in the sight of the Lord, forgetting the Lord their God, and served the Baals and the Ashtoreths" (Judges 3:7)

Egyptian Deities - B