Syria: The god Baal wielding a thunderbolt, lmestone stele, Ugarit (Ras Shamra), 15th-13th BCE, Excavations of Claude Schaeffer, 1888, Louvre Museum

In the Ugaritic Levant, Baal was variously seen as the God of Fertility, Weather, Rain, Wind, Lightning, Seasons, War, Patron of Sailors and sea-going merchants, leader of the Rephaim (ancestral spirits), and finally King of the gods

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