God · Canaanite
Baal
Baal, a god of the Canaanite world, and the gods ancient sources said were the same.
Tradition: canaanite
Documented identifications
| Link | Who said so | Note |
|---|---|---|
| identified as Set | Hyksos rule and New Kingdom Egypt, c. 1650-1100 BCE | The Hyksos identified their storm god Baal with Set, and the pair was worshipped as Seth-Baal long after. |
| identified as Horus | Papyrus Amherst 63, Aramaic in Demotic script, c. 4th c. BCE | The papyrus blesses by "Baal from Zephon" and in parallel by Horus, so the storm god could also be Horus. |
| identified as Adad (Ishkur) | Ugaritic and Syrian god lists, Late Bronze Age | Baal of Ugarit was the West Semitic Hadad, written with the same logogram dIM as Mesopotamian Adad. |
| identified as Teshub | Hurrian god lists from Ugarit, 13th c. BCE | Teshub was recognised as the equivalent of Ugaritic Baal and other Syrian weather gods. |
| merged with Yahweh | Israelite religion, Iron Age | Baal's character as storm and weather god was absorbed into the conception of Yahweh. |