Baal

"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 Ba'al was particularly associated with the storm and fertility god Hadad and his local manifestations. The Hebrew Bible includes use of the term in reference to various Levantine deities, often with application towards Hadad, who was decried as a false god. That use was taken over into Christianity and Islam, sometimes under the form Beelzebub in demonology." [Baal, Wikipedia]

After the Flood, new religions disguised the Great Old Ones as demons like Baal. [RB Strange]

In Kara-Shehr, the temple of Baal had a statue of the bestial and horrific god. Many a screaming, writhing, naked victim had been sacrificed on the altar. [REH Fire (online text)]

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