Baal
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Baal, or Ba'al, was a title and honorific meaning "owner" or "lord" in the Northwest Semitic languages spoken in the Levant during antiquity. From its use among people, it came to be applied to gods.
Baal with Thunderbolt stele from Ugarit (Musée du Louvre, Paris)
Bronze figurine of Baal, 14th–12th century BC, found at Ras Shamra (ancient Ugarit) near the Phoenician coast (Musée du Louvre, Paris)
Solid cast bronze of a votive figurine representing Baal discovered at Tel Megiddo, dating to the mid-2nd millennium BC (Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures, Chicago, Illinois)
Beelzebub
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Ba'al Zabub, Ba'al Zvuv or Beelzebub, also spelled Beelzebul or Belzebuth, and occasionally known as the Lord of the Flies, is a name derived from a Philistine god, formerly worshipped in Ekron, and l
Baal
…contexts, the title may have sometimes referred to Yahweh. Depiction as a false god was taken over into Christianity and Islam, sometimes under the form Beelzebub in demonology. Classical sources rendered him as Belus. Ba'al (בעל) is the most commonly used Modern Hebrew word for a husband…
"Beelzebub and them that are with him shoot arrows" from John Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress (1678)
Beelzebub as a character in the mumming play St George and the Dragon by the St Albans Mummers, 2015
Satan and Beelzebub, the captains of Hell in Paradise Lost by John Milton
Man being attacked by devils and demons