Readers of the Bible are probably familiar with the god, Baal, who was one of the chief rivals of the Hebrew God. The term “baal” appears over 90 times in the Hebrew Bible.

As a Canaanite god, Baal’s story comes to us in a set of tablets discovered in 1928 at Ras Shamra, north of Syria on the Mediterranean coast.

This is bad news for Zeus and Baal, but great news for his God. None of this is quite how Thomas Cranmer, the first Protestant Archbishop of Canterbury, would have put it.

The sacrifice of at least 42 children in Tenochtitlán, now Mexico City, was an effort to calm the anger of the Aztec rain god during a devastating drought, researchers have revealed.

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