Baal (Lord)

Among the Phoenicians the chief male divinity who appears to have symbolized
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god of fertility of soil and increase of flocks. In successive periods of the history of the ancient
Semitic races, the name was assigned to innumerable local deities. The Baal of Tyre was
introduced among the Israelite settlers by Ahab. Hannibal was so named because he was
supposed to be in favor with Baal.

DeVore, Nicholas. Encyclopedia of Astrology. New York: Philosophical Library, 1947.