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Updated: June 5, 2025
'All in all, or not at all, is the law. Whether Baals or calves were set beside God, He was equally deposed. Then, with a swift turn, Hosea proclaims the impending judgment, setting himself and the people as if already in the future.
Once domesticated in Palestine, with her name so changed as to declare her feminine character, Ashtoreth soon tended to lose her independence. Just as there were Baalim or "Baals" by the side of Baal, so there were Astaroth or "Ashtoreths" by the side of Ashtoreth. The Semites of Babylonia themselves had already begun the work of transformation.
The movement closely resembles the struggle of the Hebrew prophets against the worship of the Canaanite Baals and other foreign gods.
This young man, with his gentle voice and feminine figure, captivated her eyes by the grace of his person, and seemed to her like an elder sister sent by the Baals to protect her. The recollection of Matho came upon her, nor did she resist the desire to learn what had become of him. Narr' Havas replied that the Carthaginians were advancing towards Tunis to take it.
Pure and holy themselves, they require purity and holiness in all who draw near to them. Their priests are celibates, their priestesses virgins. They require sacrifices of a very different nature from those of the Baals, more costly and more dreadful.
This army came to him like a relief from the gods; dissembling his joy he replied: "May the Baals favour you! I do not know what the Republic will do for you, but Hamilcar is not ungrateful." The tumult increased; some captains entered. He was arming himself as he spoke. "Come, return! You will use your horsemen to beat down their infantry between your elephants and mine.
The gate swung slowly on its hinges. "The light of the Baals be with you, friend!" exclaimed Sergius, and he and Marcia rode through, with hearts beating madly. Voices raised in discussion made them turn in their saddles. In his drunken stupidity, the Carthaginian officer was trying to detain their escort and servants. "The master had said nothing about them.
"Never! Do you not know that it means death? The hermaphrodite Baals are unveiled to us alone who are men in understanding and women in weakness. Your desire is sacrilege; be satisfied with the knowledge that you possess!"
As polytheistic systems had always a tendency to enlarge themselves, Baal had no sooner become a separate god, distinct from El, and Rimmon, and Molech, and Adonai, than he proceeded to multiply himself, and from Baal became Baalim, either because the local Baals Baal-Tzur, Baal-Sidon, Baal-Tars, Baal-Libnan, Baal-Hermon were conceived of as separate deities, or because the aspects of Baal Baal as Sun-God, Baal as Lord of Heaven, Baal as lord of flies, , &c. were so viewed, and grew to be distinct objects of worship.
Moloch also is not originally a proper name; there are various Molochs or king-gods who rise above the Baals, and the individuals have special designations, as Melcarth, "king of the city." This type of deity occurs not with the Phenicians only, but with several other Syrian peoples about the same time.
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