at the vernal equinox, the period of suckling.* Other forms of the 

 same divine name were Baal-Berith, god of the equinox or covenant 

 (co-venire, to come together, as when the ecliptic crosses the equator at 

 the two equinoxes or crucifixions) ; Baal-Yah and El-Yah, rendered in 

 the authorised version respectively Bealiah and Elijah, when in reality 

 they signify the god Yahouh, or ram-sun-god ; El-Yah also does duty 

 for Joel ; Elishah signifies the saviour ram ; Eliakim, the setting ram ; 

 Eleazar, the creating ram ; Samuel, the god of fame, or famous ram ; 

 Daniel, the ram judge ; and Israel, the struggle with El. The 

 Phenician Hercules wrestled with Typhon (the sun at the meridian) 

 in the sand, just as Israel or Jacob wrestled with Elohim in the dust 

 Hercules, like Jacob, being wounded in the thigh ; and the Canaanites 

 knew the Greek Hercules, who wrestled with Zeus, by the name of 

 Ysrael. 



Baal-gad (1^^^) was tne d f Fortune, Gad being a Babylonian 

 deity representing fortune, which was placed at the foot of Hermon for 

 public worship. From this deity G D ("13) are derived the English 

 words God and Good, the German Gott and Gut, the Danish and 

 Swedish Gud, and the Wesleyan Methodist Gawd. Baal-Peor was the 

 Phallic deity (Deus Vulvcz\ god of the opening, worshipped largely by 

 the Hebrews, who, as General Forlong points out, " had a strong solo- 

 phalik fire-and-serpent cult. They all had Baal, Nebu, and Peor on 

 their high places ; Yachavah or Yahue, the ' Grove,' or Asherah 

 [Ashtoreth] and fire in their central groves." Baal Zephon was the god 

 Typhon ; Baal Hermon was another name for Gad, god of Fortune ; 

 Baal Hazor was the god Hathor ; and Baal Hamon (ptefcOVl) was the 

 god Amen, or Jupiter Ammon. The word Yahouh, in various terminal 

 forms, was frequently used to designate the sun at different times and 

 seasons as Joseph, the lamented Yah ; Jehu, Yahouh himself; and, 

 according to Gesenius, Jehozabad, Yeho the giver ; Jehohanan, Yeho is 

 good ; Jehoiada, Yeho is knowing ; Jehoshua, or Joshua ; Jehoshaphat ; 

 Jehoiakim ; Hoshea ; Zedekiyah, etc. Yahoshua (Joshua) was the 

 Canaanitish name for the Phenician Yes or les, and Egyptian Mises, 

 and became in Latin Josue, or Jesus, according to whether the Romans 

 referred to the Phenician or Canaanitish Bacchus, whose histories, 

 though similar in the main, differed considerably in details. The 

 Egyptian Mises became also the Jewish law-giver and leader, Moses, 

 and is described in Ex. xxxiv. as being horned like Bacchus (vide my 

 " Popular Faith Unveiled "). The Adonis myth occurs over and over 



* El not only signified a ram, but also a lamb, or any other kind of sheep. The 

 vernal equinoxial sign, for instance, of the Persians was a lamb, while that of the 

 Egyptians was a ram. 



