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.

The mass execution of children was seen as not only a way to calm the rain god, but for a time it helped the community deal with the tragedy of being unable to feed their kids, archaeologists said.

During periods of extreme drought and famine, the Aztecs sacrificed children to the god of rain. Mexico National Institute of Anthropology and History When cultures were still developing ...

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.

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.

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