{"id":6543,"date":"2026-05-13T20:27:03","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T20:27:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iwell-guard.com\/baal-hadad-phoenician-weather-god\/"},"modified":"2026-06-04T14:02:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T14:02:09","slug":"baal-hadad-phoenician-weather-god","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/iwell-guard.com\/en\/baal-hadad-phoenician-weather-god\/","title":{"rendered":"Baal-Hadad: Phoenician Weather God"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"6543\" class=\"elementor elementor-6543 elementor-2624 elementor-bc-flex-widget\" data-elementor-post-type=\"page\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-iwgw-baalhadad-hero e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"iwgw-baalhadad-hero\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-iwgw-baalhadad-hl e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-child\" data-id=\"iwgw-baalhadad-hl\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-iwgw-baalhadad-htxt e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"iwgw-baalhadad-htxt\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-iwgw-baalhadad-h1 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"iwgw-baalhadad-h1\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h1 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Baal-Hadad, Phoenician Weather God and High God<\/h1>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-iwgw-baalhadad-lead elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"iwgw-baalhadad-lead\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Baal-Hadad is the supreme weather god of the Phoenician-Canaanite <span class=\"iwg-fachbegriff\" data-tooltip=\"The academic discipline that studies religions comparatively and without confessional commitment.\" tabindex=\"0\">religion<\/span> and the hero of the Baal Cycle from the Ugaritic corpus. As a storm god he governs thunderstorms, rain and fertility, and he fights against the chaotic sea <a href=\"https:\/\/iwell-guard.com\/en\/yam-phoenician-sea-god\/\">Yam<\/a> and the death god <a href=\"https:\/\/iwell-guard.com\/en\/mot-phoenician-god-of-death\/\">Mot<\/a>.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-iwgw-baalhadad-pillc e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"iwgw-baalhadad-pillc\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-iwgw-baalhadad-pills elementor-widget elementor-widget-html\" data-id=\"iwgw-baalhadad-pills\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"html.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"iwg-pill-row\"><span class=\"iwg-klasse-badge\" tabindex=\"0\" data-tooltip=\"Weather god of the Phoenician tradition.\">Weather God<\/span><a 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\/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-sec-iwgcomp2-baal-hadad elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"sec-iwgcomp2-baal-hadad\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-col-iwgcomp2-baal-hadad\" data-id=\"col-iwgcomp2-baal-hadad\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-iwgcomp2-baal-hadad elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"iwgcomp2-baal-hadad\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>The <strong><span class=\"iwg-fachbegriff\" data-tooltip=\"The totality of religious acts of veneration directed toward a deity or sacred figure.\" tabindex=\"0\">cult<\/span><\/strong> of Baal-Hadad encompasses <span class=\"iwg-fachbegriff\" data-tooltip=\"A structure that serves the worship of one or more deities.\" tabindex=\"0\">temples<\/span> in the Levant and Mesopotamia.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-iwgw-baalhadad-s0 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"iwgw-baalhadad-s0\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-iwgw-baalhadad-s0h elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"iwgw-baalhadad-s0h\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Overview and Brief Profile<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-iwgw-baalhadad-s0c e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"iwgw-baalhadad-s0c\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-iwgw-baalhadad-s0t elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"iwgw-baalhadad-s0t\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Baal-Hadad is the supreme weather god of the Phoenician pantheon and stands in the <span class=\"iwg-fachbegriff\" data-tooltip=\"The passing on of knowledge and narratives across generations.\" tabindex=\"0\">tradition<\/span> of the Northwest Semitic storm god Hadad, attested since early Syrian times (third millennium BCE) in Aleppo, Mari, Ebla and Ugarit.<\/p><p>In <em>The World of the Phoenicians<\/em> (1965, German 1966), Sabatino Moscati showed that Baal-Hadad forms the center of Phoenician high religion. Within the <a href=\"https:\/\/iwell-guard.com\/en\/phoenicians-and-carthage-baal-tanit-and-the-tradition-of-protection\/\">Phoenician tradition<\/a> he is by far the most important male <span class=\"iwg-fachbegriff\" data-tooltip=\"A being venerated as divine within a religion.\" tabindex=\"0\">deity<\/span>.<\/p><p>The name Baal is a Semitic appellative meaning &#8216;lord&#8217; or &#8216;owner&#8217;; it is prefixed to many local hypostases (Baal-\u0160amem, Baal-Hammon, Baal-Saphon, Baal-Sidon). Baal-Hadad designates the principal form bearing the personal name Hadad, which signifies thunder.<\/p><p>In <em>Les enfants de Cadmos<\/em> (2015), Corinne Bonnet presented the Phoenician <span class=\"iwg-fachbegriff\" data-tooltip=\"The totality of the gods of a religion or culture.\" tabindex=\"0\">pantheon<\/span> configuration comprehensively; Mark Smith set out the history-of-religions context in <em>The Origins of Biblical <span class=\"iwg-fachbegriff\" data-tooltip=\"The belief in a single god.\" tabindex=\"0\">Monotheism<\/span><\/em> (2001).<\/p><p>In religious-studies terms, Baal-Hadad is the key Northwest Semitic god for the weather-god type of the Late Bronze and <span class=\"iwg-fachbegriff\" data-tooltip=\"A prehistoric epoch following the Bronze Age, marked by ironworking.\" tabindex=\"0\">Iron Age<\/span>.<\/p><p>His <span class=\"iwg-fachbegriff\" data-tooltip=\"A transmitted narrative about gods, origins and the order of the world.\" tabindex=\"0\">myth<\/span> in the Baal Cycle of Ugarit (fourteenth century BCE) is the most important mythological composition of the West Semitic world. In the <span class=\"iwg-fachbegriff\" data-tooltip=\"A prehistoric epoch following the Bronze Age, marked by ironworking.\" tabindex=\"0\">Iron Age<\/span> his veneration continues in the Phoenician city-states of Tyre, Sidon, Byblos and Arwad and in their Mediterranean colonies.<\/p><p>Baal-Hadad&#8217;s centrality can also be seen in the fact that his hypostases are the most important <span class=\"iwg-fachbegriff\" data-tooltip=\"A being venerated as divine within a religion.\" tabindex=\"0\">deity<\/span> in nearly every Phoenician city-state.<\/p><p>In Tyre <a href=\"https:\/\/iwell-guard.com\/en\/melqart-city-god-of-tyre\/\">Melqart<\/a> dominates, in Sidon Eshmun and Astarte, in Byblos Baal-\u0160amem; all three are, in the broadest sense, hypostases or sons of Baal. This &#8216;Baalization&#8217; of the Phoenician pantheon is one of the characteristic history-of-religions structures of the <span class=\"iwg-fachbegriff\" data-tooltip=\"A prehistoric epoch following the Bronze Age, marked by ironworking.\" tabindex=\"0\">Iron Age<\/span>.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-iwgw-baalhadad-s1 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"iwgw-baalhadad-s1\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-iwgw-baalhadad-s1h elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"iwgw-baalhadad-s1h\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Name and Etymology<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-iwgw-baalhadad-s1c e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"iwgw-baalhadad-s1c\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-iwgw-baalhadad-s1t elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"iwgw-baalhadad-s1t\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>The double name Baal-Hadad consists of the appellative <em>ba\u02bfal<\/em> &#8216;lord, owner&#8217; and the personal name <em>Haddu<\/em> or <em>Hadad<\/em>. The root <em>hdd<\/em> means &#8216;to thunder&#8217; and belongs to the West Semitic vocabulary for meteorological phenomena. In <em>Die Wettergottgestalten Mesopotamiens und Nordsyriens<\/em> (2001), Daniel Schwemer discussed the etymological foundations at length.<\/p><p>In Ugaritic texts he appears as <em>b\u02bfl<\/em> (Baal) or <em>b\u02bfl hd<\/em> (Baal-Haddu); in Phoenician inscriptions of the <span class=\"iwg-fachbegriff\" data-tooltip=\"A prehistoric epoch following the Bronze Age, marked by ironworking.\" tabindex=\"0\">Iron Age<\/span> the plain Baal name with a local specification predominates. In Akkadian god-list material he is identified as Adad; in Hittite with DU\/I\u0161kur, which facilitated the identification with <a href=\"https:\/\/iwell-guard.com\/en\/teshub-hurrian-weather-god\/\">Teshub<\/a>.<\/p><p>An interesting special form is Baal-Saphon, &#8216;lord of Mount Saphon&#8217; (Mons Casius), the mountain <span class=\"iwg-fachbegriff\" data-tooltip=\"Handed over to the sacred through a religious act and thereby set apart from the everyday.\" tabindex=\"0\">consecrated<\/span> to him north of Ugarit. Saphon is his dwelling place and functionally corresponds to the Hurrian Hazzi or the Greek Olympus. The identification Baal-Hadad = Baal-Saphon is made explicitly in the Ugaritic texts.<\/p><p>In the Hieroglyphic Luwian inscriptions of the North Syrian city-states, Baal appears as &#8216;Tarhunza of the Vineyard&#8217; or &#8216;Tarhunza of the Mountain&#8217;; the identification with the Anatolian weather god is evidence of the close history-of-religions interweaving of the Late <span class=\"iwg-fachbegriff\" data-tooltip=\"A prehistoric era in which bronze was the most important metal for tools.\" tabindex=\"0\">Bronze Age<\/span> Levant.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-iwgw-baalhadad-s2 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"iwgw-baalhadad-s2\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-iwgw-baalhadad-s2h elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"iwgw-baalhadad-s2h\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Description and Iconography<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-iwgw-baalhadad-s2c e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"iwgw-baalhadad-s2c\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-iwgw-baalhadad-s2t elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"iwgw-baalhadad-s2t\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>In <span class=\"iwg-fachbegriff\" data-tooltip=\"The study of pictorial content and its meaning.\" tabindex=\"0\">iconography<\/span> Baal-Hadad appears as a powerful, bearded man in a short kilt, with a raised battle-axe or a bundle of lightning bolts in one hand and a lance or an ear-of-grain scepter in the other.<\/p><p>The best-known depiction is the <span class=\"iwg-fachbegriff\" data-tooltip=\"An upright, inscribed or illustrated stone or wooden slab.\" tabindex=\"0\">stele<\/span> from Ras Shamra (Ugarit, thirteenth century BCE), which shows Baal in the <span class=\"iwg-fachbegriff\" data-tooltip=\"The era of Greek and Roman culture, roughly 800 BCE to 600 CE.\" tabindex=\"0\">classical<\/span> striding-pose scheme with a raised mace; the <span class=\"iwg-fachbegriff\" data-tooltip=\"An upright, inscribed or illustrated stone or wooden slab.\" tabindex=\"0\">stele<\/span> is today in the Louvre.<\/p><p>His <span class=\"iwg-fachbegriff\" data-tooltip=\"Belonging to the divine and thereby withdrawn from everyday use.\" tabindex=\"0\">sacred<\/span> animal is the bull; in many reliefs he stands or strides upon a bull or beside a bull. The bull iconography links him to Hadad and to early Syrian bull-storm-god traditions. In Phoenician contexts the eagle also occasionally appears as his attendant animal, possibly under Mesopotamian influence.<\/p><p>On Phoenician coins and stelae of the <span class=\"iwg-fachbegriff\" data-tooltip=\"A prehistoric epoch following the Bronze Age, marked by ironworking.\" tabindex=\"0\">Iron Age<\/span> his iconography is somewhat more variable; he appears enthroned, striding or as a cosmic ruler against a starry background. In the western Mediterranean colonies (Carthage, Sicily) his pictorial tradition merges with <a href=\"https:\/\/iwell-guard.com\/en\/baal-hammon-chief-god-of-carthage\/\">Baal-Hammon<\/a>, who develops into an independent <span class=\"iwg-fachbegriff\" data-tooltip=\"The academic study of God and the doctrines of a religion.\" tabindex=\"0\">theological<\/span> figure.<\/p><p>On the Carthaginian stelae from the Tophet <span class=\"iwg-fachbegriff\" data-tooltip=\"A sacred place dedicated to the veneration of a deity.\" tabindex=\"0\">sanctuary<\/span>, Baal-Hammon frequently appears as an enthroned bearded god with the <span class=\"iwg-fachbegriff\" data-tooltip=\"A sign that stands in place of an idea or meaning.\" tabindex=\"0\">symbol<\/span> of the &#8216;sign of Tanit&#8217; above him, a pictorial formula of late Punic <span class=\"iwg-fachbegriff\" data-tooltip=\"A person's lived religious attitude and practice.\" tabindex=\"0\">piety<\/span>.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-iwgw-baalhadad-s3 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"iwgw-baalhadad-s3\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-iwgw-baalhadad-s3h elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"iwgw-baalhadad-s3h\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Mythological Narratives<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-iwgw-baalhadad-s3c e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"iwgw-baalhadad-s3c\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-iwgw-baalhadad-s3t elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"iwgw-baalhadad-s3t\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>The most important mythological source is the Ugaritic Baal Cycle (KTU 1.1, 1.6), a composition of six tablets from the fourteenth century BCE, edited by Mark Smith in <em>The Ugaritic Baal Cycle<\/em> (vol.<\/p><p>I 1994, vol. II with Wayne Pitard 2009). The cycle contains three main conflicts: Baal against <a href=\"https:\/\/iwell-guard.com\/en\/yam-phoenician-sea-god\/\">Yam<\/a> (the sea), Baal as temple-builder, and Baal against <a href=\"https:\/\/iwell-guard.com\/en\/mot-phoenician-god-of-death\/\">Mot<\/a> (death).<\/p><p>In the first conflict Yam demands kingship and receives the assent of El; Baal fights with two <span class=\"iwg-fachbegriff\" data-tooltip=\"Practices that seek to intervene in the course of events through special actions or formulas.\" tabindex=\"0\">magical<\/span> weapons fashioned by the craftsman god Kothar-wa-Khasis and defeats Yam.<\/p><p>In the second conflict Baal builds a palace on Saphon with the permission of the father god El and through the mediation of Athirat. In the third conflict Mot takes Baal into the underworld; <a href=\"https:\/\/iwell-guard.com\/en\/anat-phoenician-war-goddess\/\">Anat<\/a>, Baal&#8217;s sister and companion, thereupon kills Mot and frees Baal, who is resurrected.<\/p><p>This sequence of &#8216;victory over chaos, <span class=\"iwg-fachbegriff\" data-tooltip=\"A structure that serves the worship of one or more deities.\" tabindex=\"0\">temple<\/span>, death and resurrection&#8217; is one of the most influential mythological schemes of <span class=\"iwg-fachbegriff\" data-tooltip=\"Epoch of Greek and Roman culture, roughly 800 BC to 600 AD.\" tabindex=\"0\">ancient<\/span> Near Eastern religion.<\/p><p>Baal&#8217;s awakening in spring was understood as a seasonal sign: when Baal lives, it rains; when he dies, drought prevails. In history-of-religions terms, the <span class=\"iwg-fachbegriff\" data-tooltip=\"A transmitted narrative about gods, origins and the order of the world.\" tabindex=\"0\">myth<\/span> belongs in a series with Tarhunna-Illuyanka, Marduk-Tiamat, Teshub-Ullikummi and the Greek Zeus-Typhon combat.<\/p><p>An important secondary tradition is the Hurrian-Hittite <span class=\"iwg-fachbegriff\" data-tooltip=\"A transmitted narrative about gods, origins and the order of the world.\" tabindex=\"0\">myth<\/span> of the &#8216;Song of the Sea&#8217; (CTH 346), in which <a href=\"https:\/\/iwell-guard.com\/en\/teshub-hurrian-weather-god\/\">Teshub<\/a> fights against the sea.<\/p><p>The parallels to the Baal-Yam combat are so close that a direct literary connection is likely. In <em>From Hittite to Homer<\/em> (2016), Mary Bachvarova traced in detail the paths along which these sea-combat narratives traveled.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-iwgw-baalhadad-s4 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"iwgw-baalhadad-s4\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-iwgw-baalhadad-s4h elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"iwgw-baalhadad-s4h\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Cult and Veneration<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-iwgw-baalhadad-s4c e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"iwgw-baalhadad-s4c\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-iwgw-baalhadad-s4t elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"iwgw-baalhadad-s4t\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Baal-Hadad&#8217;s principal cult centers were Ugarit (<span class=\"iwg-fachbegriff\" data-tooltip=\"A structure that serves the worship of one or more deities.\" tabindex=\"0\">temple<\/span> on the tell mound), Tyre (<span class=\"iwg-fachbegriff\" data-tooltip=\"A structure that serves the worship of one or more deities.\" tabindex=\"0\">temple<\/span> of Baal-Saphon), Sidon, Byblos (with Baal-\u0160amem) and the inland city of Aleppo. In Tyre the Baal-\u0160amem <span class=\"iwg-fachbegriff\" data-tooltip=\"A structure that serves the worship of one or more deities.\" tabindex=\"0\">temple<\/span> was linked to kingship; according to Josephus, Hiram I of Tyre built a splendid Baal <span class=\"iwg-fachbegriff\" data-tooltip=\"A structure that serves the worship of one or more deities.\" tabindex=\"0\">temple<\/span> in the tenth century BCE.<\/p><p>In <em>The World of the Phoenicians<\/em>, Sabatino Moscati described Phoenician temple architecture and <span class=\"iwg-fachbegriff\" data-tooltip=\"An ordered sequence of symbolic actions with religious or cultural meaning.\" tabindex=\"0\">ritual<\/span>. The <span class=\"iwg-fachbegriff\" data-tooltip=\"A structure that serves the worship of one or more deities.\" tabindex=\"0\">temples<\/span> were elongated spaces with a forecourt, a main hall and a <span class=\"iwg-fachbegriff\" data-tooltip=\"Belonging to the divine and thereby withdrawn from everyday use.\" tabindex=\"0\">holy<\/span> of holies (adyton), in which the <span class=\"iwg-fachbegriff\" data-tooltip=\"A pictorial representation of a deity venerated in a temple or shrine.\" tabindex=\"0\">cult image<\/span> stood.<\/p><p><span class=\"iwg-fachbegriff\" data-tooltip=\"A gift to a deity, expressing thanks, petition or veneration.\" tabindex=\"0\">Offerings<\/span> included burnt offerings, incense offerings and libations; an important festival ritual was the annual &#8216;awakening&#8217; of Baal in spring.<\/p><p>In the <span class=\"iwg-fachbegriff\" data-tooltip=\"A prehistoric epoch following the Bronze Age, marked by ironworking.\" tabindex=\"0\">Iron Age<\/span> the Baal <span class=\"iwg-fachbegriff\" data-tooltip=\"The totality of religious acts of veneration directed toward a deity or sacred figure.\" tabindex=\"0\">cult<\/span> spread with the Phoenician colonies across the entire Mediterranean: Cyprus (Kition, Salamis), Sicily (Motya, Lilybaeum), Sardinia (Tharros, Sulcis), Tunisia (Carthage, Utica), Spain (Gades, Tartessos). In <em>Melqart<\/em> (1988) and in several later works, Corinne Bonnet documented the Mediterranean diffusion in detail.<\/p><p>In Carthage the Baal <span class=\"iwg-fachbegriff\" data-tooltip=\"The totality of religious acts of veneration directed toward a deity or sacred figure.\" tabindex=\"0\">cult<\/span> developed into an independent history-of-religions tradition with <a href=\"https:\/\/iwell-guard.com\/en\/baal-hammon-chief-god-of-carthage\/\">Baal-Hammon<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/iwell-guard.com\/en\/tanit-chief-goddess-of-carthage\/\">Tanit<\/a> as the supreme divine family. In <em>The Phoenicians and the West<\/em> (2001), Maria Eugenia Aubet set out the transformation of the eastern Baal cult into the Punic <span class=\"iwg-fachbegriff\" data-tooltip=\"The totality of the gods of a religion or culture.\" tabindex=\"0\">pantheon<\/span>.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-iwgw-baalhadad-s5 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"iwgw-baalhadad-s5\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-iwgw-baalhadad-s5h elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"iwgw-baalhadad-s5h\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Protective Practice and the Apotropaic<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-iwgw-baalhadad-s5c e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"iwgw-baalhadad-s5c\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-iwgw-baalhadad-s5t elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"iwgw-baalhadad-s5t\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Baal-Hadad was the protective god of the king, the city and fertility. In the Phoenician inscriptions he is <span class=\"iwg-fachbegriff\" data-tooltip=\"The petitioning or invoking address to a deity or power.\" tabindex=\"0\">invoked<\/span> as the guarantor of oaths; treaty texts between Phoenician kings and foreign rulers begin with his <span class=\"iwg-fachbegriff\" data-tooltip=\"The petitioning or invoking address to a deity or power.\" tabindex=\"0\">invocation<\/span>. On royal seals his image or his name appears as a protective formula.<\/p><p><span class=\"iwg-fachbegriff\" data-tooltip=\"Warding off evil: of signs and objects intended to keep harmful influences away.\" tabindex=\"0\">Apotropaic<\/span> practices frequently used the bull as a <span class=\"iwg-fachbegriff\" data-tooltip=\"A sign that stands in place of an idea or meaning.\" tabindex=\"0\">symbol<\/span>; bull-horn forms appear as <span class=\"iwg-fachbegriff\" data-tooltip=\"A worn object to which a protective, misfortune-averting effect is attributed.\" tabindex=\"0\">amulets<\/span> and on altars. In Phoenician houses bronze statuettes of Baal were set up, mostly with a raised battle-axe. This &#8216;striding Baal&#8217; statuette practice is well attested archaeologically and is the subject of several studies, for example by H\u00e9l\u00e8ne Sader.<\/p><p>From a religious-studies perspective, Baal-Hadad&#8217;s protective function is bound up with imperial order and fertility. He does not primarily guarantee individual healing, but the return of the rainy season, the stability of kingship and victory in battle. The iWell Guard regards him as a historical history-of-religions figure without any present-day healing-related claims.<\/p><p>In Phoenician oath formulas of the first millennium BCE, Baal regularly appears as the first guarantor of the oath; the Esarhaddon ad\u00ea treaties between the Assyrian great king and Phoenician vassal rulers (seventh century BCE) are an important witness to this.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-iwgw-baalhadad-s6 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"iwgw-baalhadad-s6\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-iwgw-baalhadad-s6h elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"iwgw-baalhadad-s6h\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Parallels in Other Cultures<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-iwgw-baalhadad-s6c e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"iwgw-baalhadad-s6c\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-iwgw-baalhadad-s6t elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"iwgw-baalhadad-s6t\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Baal-Hadad is closely related to the Hurrian <a href=\"https:\/\/iwell-guard.com\/en\/teshub-hurrian-weather-god\/\">Teshub<\/a>, the Hittite <a href=\"https:\/\/iwell-guard.com\/en\/tarhunna-weather-god-of-the-hittites\/\">Tarhunna<\/a>, the Mesopotamian Adad\/I\u0161kur and the Urartian Tei\u0161eba. His dragon-combat <span class=\"iwg-fachbegriff\" data-tooltip=\"A recurring thematic element in art or narrative.\" tabindex=\"0\">motif<\/span> has close parallels to Indra&#8217;s victory over Vritra, to Marduk&#8217;s victory over Tiamat and to Zeus&#8217; combat against Typhon. In his monograph, Daniel Schwemer treated all of these parallels in detail.<\/p><p>In the Hebrew material Baal appears as the great adversary of Yahweh; the polemical texts of the Old Testament (especially 1 Kings 18, Hosea, Jeremiah) portray him negatively.<\/p><p>In history-of-religions terms Baal-Hadad was not a foreign god to the ancient Hebrews but a competing god from the same Canaanite tradition; the biblical anti-Baalism is the theological reaction to a real religious proximity. Mark Smith treated this at length in <em>The Early History of God<\/em> (1990).<\/p><p>Baal-Hadad was identified with the Greek Zeus in the Hellenistic period; Baal-\u0160amem corresponds to Zeus Hypsistos, Baal-Saphon to Zeus Kasios. In Carthage the independent figure <a href=\"https:\/\/iwell-guard.com\/en\/baal-hammon-chief-god-of-carthage\/\">Baal-Hammon<\/a> develops out of the Baal tradition, with a different functional definition.<\/p><p>In the late Carthaginian tradition Baal-Hammon was identified with the Roman Saturn; this Saturnization of the Phoenician Baal cult in the North African region was investigated in detail by Marcel Le Glay in <em>Saturne africain<\/em> (1966) and is a classic example of history-of-religions <span class=\"iwg-fachbegriff\" data-tooltip=\"The merging of ideas or deities from different religious traditions.\" tabindex=\"0\">syncretism<\/span>.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-iwgw-baalhadad-s7 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"iwgw-baalhadad-s7\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-iwgw-baalhadad-s7h elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"iwgw-baalhadad-s7h\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Present-Day Reception and Research<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-iwgw-baalhadad-s7c e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"iwgw-baalhadad-s7c\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-iwgw-baalhadad-s7t elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"iwgw-baalhadad-s7t\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Research on Baal is highly developed today. The standard edition of the Baal Cycle by Mark Smith and Wayne Pitard is a reference work; Daniel Schwemer&#8217;s monograph on weather-god figures is the most comprehensive synthesis.<\/p><p>In several works Corinne Bonnet has presented the history of Phoenician religion comprehensively. Sabatino Moscati and Maria Eugenia Aubet are authorities on the Mediterranean diffusion of Phoenician religion.<\/p><p>In popular reception Baal is known above all through biblical polemic; in modern usage the word &#8216;Baal&#8217; often carries pejorative connotations. More scholarly and differentiated accounts are found in the standard works named above as well as in numerous collective volumes on Phoenician <span class=\"iwg-fachbegriff\" data-tooltip=\"The discipline that studies past cultures through material remains.\" tabindex=\"0\">archaeology<\/span>.<\/p><p>Current research focuses on the differentiation of the Baal hypostases (Baal-\u0160amem, Baal-Saphon, Baal-Hammon, Baal-Sidon and so on), on the Mediterranean spread of the cult, and on the question of how the Baal Cycle was <span class=\"iwg-fachbegriff\" data-tooltip=\"Belonging to a fixed religious sequence of actions.\" tabindex=\"0\">ritually<\/span> actualized.<\/p><p>The iWell Guard records Baal-Hadad as a central historical <span class=\"iwg-fachbegriff\" data-tooltip=\"The totality of the gods of a religion or culture.\" tabindex=\"0\">pantheon<\/span> member and not as a present-day recipient of protective appeals. Healing claims or modern spiritual effects are not part of this account.<\/p><p>An intriguing new direction of research concerns the iconographic persistence of Baal in the Hellenistic and Roman Near East. Klaus St\u00e4hler and Andreas Kropp have examined the transitions between Phoenician, Hellenistic and Roman pictorial traditions in several publications.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-iwgw-baalhadad-s8 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"iwgw-baalhadad-s8\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-iwgw-baalhadad-s8h elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"iwgw-baalhadad-s8h\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Literature and Sources<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-iwgw-baalhadad-s8c e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"iwgw-baalhadad-s8c\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-iwgw-baalhadad-s8t elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"iwgw-baalhadad-s8t\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>The following selection comprises the most important standard works on Baal-Hadad research. It brings together text editions, history-of-religions syntheses and archaeological publications. Mark Smith&#8217;s Baal Cycle edition is the foundation of the primary sources; Schwemer, Bonnet and Moscati provide the history-of-religions contextualization.<\/p><p>Those who wish to examine the material in depth will find excellent bibliographies on the Mediterranean spread of the cult in Aubet and Bonnet.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-cp23eb14dd e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"cp23eb14dd\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-cp2cd30715 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"cp2cd30715\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">The Combat against Yam in the Baal Cycle<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-cp2885aeb7 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-child\" data-id=\"cp2885aeb7\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-cp23bca9d3 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"cp23bca9d3\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>The central episode of the Ugaritic Baal Cycle is the confrontation between Baal and Yam, the deified sea. On the tablet listed in the KTU numbering as <em>1.2<\/em>, Yam demands before the assembly of the gods that Baal be handed over.<\/p><p>The old king of the gods, El, seeking peace, at first consents and calls Baal a prisoner of Yam. But Baal refuses.<\/p><p>The decisive role falls to the divine craftsman Kothar-wa-Hasis. He forges two miraculous weapons by the names of <em>Yagrush<\/em> and <em>Ayyamur<\/em>, whose designations are interpreted as Driver and Chaser.<\/p><p>With the first Baal strikes Yam on the shoulder, with the second between the eyes. Yam falls to the ground, and Baal is proclaimed ruler. Astarte restrains him from dismembering the defeated foe.<\/p><p>In religious-studies terms this narrative belongs to the widespread type of the combat with chaos, in which a young weather god subdues a water power embodying chaos and thereby secures the order of the world.<\/p><p>Comparable accounts are found in the Babylonian <em>Enuma Elish<\/em> with Marduk and Tiamat as well as in the Hittite Illuyanka <span class=\"iwg-fachbegriff\" data-tooltip=\"A transmitted narrative about gods, origins and the order of the world.\" tabindex=\"0\">myth<\/span>.<\/p><p>As early as 1895, Hermann Gunkel pointed to such parallels in the ancient Near East, long before the Ugaritic tablets were known.<\/p><p>Today the biblical allusions to Yahweh&#8217;s victory over the sea, over Rahab and the Leviathan, are read against the background of precisely this Northwest Semitic tradition. The Baal-Yam <span class=\"iwg-fachbegriff\" data-tooltip=\"A transmitted narrative about gods, origins and the order of the world.\" tabindex=\"0\">myth<\/span> is thus a key text for understanding ancient Near Eastern royal ideology.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-cp274a5cdf e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"cp274a5cdf\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-cp2566e22a elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"cp2566e22a\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Baal's Death, the Underworld and the Return<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-cp21a7bae2 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-child\" data-id=\"cp21a7bae2\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-cp248db3f1 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"cp248db3f1\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>The second great narrative arc of the Baal Cycle leads the weather god into death. Mot, the god of drought, death and the underworld, invites Baal into his realm.<\/p><p>Baal accepts the invitation, and the tablets report that he descends into Mot&#8217;s jaws like a morsel into the gullet. The news of his death reaches El, who steps down from the throne, dons mourning garments, gashes his skin and laments for Baal.<\/p><p>There follows the search by his sister <a href=\"https:\/\/iwell-guard.com\/en\/anat-phoenician-war-goddess\/\">Anat<\/a>, who recovers Baal&#8217;s body and buries it with the help of the sun goddess Shapash. For a time a substitute ruler reigns, but the earth withers.<\/p><p>Finally Baal appears alive to El in a dream, and the fields once again drip with honey. In a final confrontation Baal and Mot fight like wild beasts, until Shapash mediates and Mot yields.<\/p><p>Older scholarship read this sequence as a pure seasonal myth, as a reflection of the summer withering and the autumn rainy season on the Syrian coast. More recent work, for example by Mark Smith and Wayne Pitard in their commentary, considers this interpretation too narrow.<\/p><p>The Ugaritic calendar, they argue, knows no annual death of Baal as a fixed ritual date, and the text itself speaks rather of a seven-year rhythm.<\/p><p>The episode links the legitimation of rule, fertility and the experience of drought without committing itself to a single interpretive scheme. It remains one of the most discussed texts in the history of ancient Near Eastern religion.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-cp269d2191 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"cp269d2191\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-cp2677d35b elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"cp2677d35b\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Hadad in the Amarna Letters and the Mari-Period Tradition<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-cp2998a58b e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-child\" data-id=\"cp2998a58b\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-cp2af41bb3 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"cp2af41bb3\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>The god whom the Ugaritians called Baal bore the actual name Hadad or Haddu. This name is far older and more widespread than the Ugaritic tablets.<\/p><p>In the archives of Mari on the middle Euphrates, which date to the eighteenth century before our era, the weather god of Aleppo, called Adad, appears as a major political force.<\/p><p>A famous letter has a prophet speak in the name of the god to King Zimri-Lim and reminds him that Adad set him on the throne of his father and expects services in return.<\/p><p>In the Amarna letters of the fourteenth century, the diplomatic correspondence of Egyptian pharaohs with the princes of Syria and Palestine, the god appears in personal names and in similes.<\/p><p>Local rulers describe the dread of the pharaoh with images borrowed from the thunder of Hadad. These attestations show that Hadad was a central imperial deity long before the Phoenician era, closely bound up with kingship and military power.<\/p><p>For Phoenician religion this means that the Baal of the Phoenician cities is the late heir of a centuries-old weather-god tradition. In Tyre <a href=\"https:\/\/iwell-guard.com\/en\/melqart-city-god-of-tyre\/\">Melqart<\/a> emerged as the city god, while elsewhere the title Baal remained bound to Hadad.<\/p><p>The Assyrian designation Adad and the Aramaic form Hadad likewise attest that the same <span class=\"iwg-fachbegriff\" data-tooltip=\"A being venerated as divine within a religion.\" tabindex=\"0\">deity<\/span> was venerated across linguistic and imperial boundaries. The sources from Mari and Amarna are indispensable for placing the Phoenician evidence in historical context.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-cp27a103e5 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"cp27a103e5\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-cp2c2c9948 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"cp2c2c9948\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">The Stele of the Baal au foudre and the Pictorial Program<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-cp26b7dfef e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-child\" data-id=\"cp26b7dfef\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-cp2cd9f9fb elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"cp2cd9f9fb\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Among the finds from Ras Shamra one limestone stele stands out, known in scholarship as <em>Baal au foudre<\/em>, the Baal with the thunderbolt. It was found near the great Baal temple on the acropolis of Ugarit and is today in the Louvre.<\/p><p>The <span class=\"iwg-fachbegriff\" data-tooltip=\"An upright, inscribed or illustrated stone or wooden slab.\" tabindex=\"0\">stele<\/span> shows the god in a striding pose, with his raised right arm wielding a mace, while the left hand holds a spear whose point is directed downward into the ground and whose upper end branches into plant forms.<\/p><p>This detail is telling. The spear, which is at once lightning and sprouting plant, gathers the two spheres of action of the weather god: the destructive violence of the storm and the life-giving power of the rain.<\/p><p>Beneath the god&#8217;s feet wavy lines suggest the mountains or the sea. A small human figure at the edge is usually interpreted as the king of Ugarit, who places himself under Baal&#8217;s protection.<\/p><p>The horned cap that the god wears is an ancient Near Eastern sign of divine rank. The whole composition follows a pictorial type that was widespread from the Anatolian region to Egypt, there for instance in depictions of the weather god associated with Seth.<\/p><p>In her monograph on Ugarit, Marguerite Yon described the <span class=\"iwg-fachbegriff\" data-tooltip=\"An upright, inscribed or illustrated stone or wooden slab.\" tabindex=\"0\">stele<\/span> in detail and pointed to its significance as a connection of <span class=\"iwg-fachbegriff\" data-tooltip=\"A structure that serves the worship of one or more deities.\" tabindex=\"0\">temple<\/span>, kingship and divine image. For the iconography of the Phoenician Baal it is the most important surviving witness, even though strictly speaking it comes from Ugarit and not from a Phoenician city.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-iwgw-baalhadad-lit e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"iwgw-baalhadad-lit\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-iwgw-baalhadad-lith elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"iwgw-baalhadad-lith\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Literature (Selection)<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-iwgw-baalhadad-litc e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"iwgw-baalhadad-litc\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-iwgw-baalhadad-litt elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"iwgw-baalhadad-litt\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div data-nosnippet=\"true\"><ul><li>Mark Smith \/ Wayne Pitard: <em>The Ugaritic Baal Cycle<\/em> (Leiden 1994\/2009)<\/li><li>Daniel Schwemer: <em>Die Wettergottgestalten Mesopotamiens und Nordsyriens<\/em> (Wiesbaden 2001)<\/li><li>Sabatino Moscati: <em>The World of the Phoenicians<\/em> (Stuttgart 1966)<\/li><li>Corinne Bonnet: <em>Les enfants de Cadmos<\/em> (Paris 2015)<\/li><li>Mark Smith: <em>The Early History of God<\/em> (San Francisco 1990)<\/li><li>Maria Eugenia Aubet: <em>The Phoenicians and the West<\/em> (Cambridge 2001)<\/li><\/ul><\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-iwgkw2-add-baalhadad e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"iwgkw2-add-baalhadad\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-iwgkw2-add-baalhadad-t elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"iwgkw2-add-baalhadad-t\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>As the Phoenician high god, Baal-Hadad governs the weather, that is, storm, rain and vegetation; in the Ugaritic texts he triumphs over Yam and Mot and secures the cosmic order of the Phoenician pantheon.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-iwgw-baalhadad-kwd e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"iwgw-baalhadad-kwd\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-iwgw-baalhadad-kwdc e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"iwgw-baalhadad-kwdc\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-iwgw-baalhadad-kwdt elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"iwgw-baalhadad-kwdt\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><em>Related key terms: Baal-Hadad Phoenician weather god Baal Cycle Saphon Ugarit Aleppo Yam Mot.<\/em><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-iwgw-baalhadad-cc e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"iwgw-baalhadad-cc\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\" 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