#phoenicians
- Baal — An honorific title and proper noun of Semitic origin, originally meaning 'master', 'lord', or 'owner'; the supreme deity of fertility, weather, rain, and storm in Canaanite, Phoenician, and Carthaginian mythologies (as Baal Hammon). In biblical texts and subsequent Judeo-Christian traditions, the term was demonized, often used as a generic name for competing pagan deities or integrated into complex demonological figures like Beelzebub.