Baal

chief god of Phoenicians and Can a a nites, the Sun as the giver of life. He was worshipped on mountain tops, and his temples were originally circles of upright conical stones. Greeks confused Baal with Hercules. The facts that there were no representations of Baal himself, and that he was connected with the fruit-giving power of nature, were great attractions to an agricultural people like the Israeli tes, who were monotheistic and foroidden to represent their God.