baalit

Updated: August 3, 2026

The rustic worship of Palestine thus shows us a side of the religion of Western Asia which we know from other sources to have been widely diffused. She is found as Baalit, as Mylitta, as Astarte; the Greeks call her Aphrodite, and her horrid worship found entrance in various Greek cities. The Phenicians also came to have gods of a much higher character, and of these also we must speak.

Allan Menzies - History of Religion: A Sketch of Primitive Religious Beliefs and Practices, and of the Origin and Character of the Great Systems