The struggle of the nations - Egypt, Syria, and Assyria . riptionx, pp. 10:-!-105). ^ The source of the Jordan, near Banias, was the seat of a Baal wliom the Greeks identified withPan. This was probably tbe l!aal-Gad who often lent his name to tlie neiglilmuring town of Baal-Hermon (cf. supra, p. 155): many of the rivers of Phoenicia were called after tlio divinities worsliippedin the nearest city, tlie .\donis, tlic Bclos, the Asclepios, the Damuras (Baudissin, Studien zurSemilischcn Edigionsijcschichtc, vol. ii. pp. 159-1C5). These are tlio liigli places (havidth) so frequently referred
The struggle of the nations - Egypt, Syria, and Assyria . riptionx, pp. 10:-!-105). ^ The source of the Jordan, near Banias, was the seat of a Baal wliom the Greeks identified withPan. This was probably tbe l!aal-Gad who often lent his name to tlie neiglilmuring town of Baal-Hermon (cf. supra, p. 155): many of the rivers of Phoenicia were called after tlio divinities worsliippedin the nearest city, tlie .\donis, tlic Bclos, the Asclepios, the Damuras (Baudissin, Studien zurSemilischcn Edigionsijcschichtc, vol. ii. pp. 159-1C5). These are tlio liigli places (havidth) so frequently referred (,o by the llelirew prophets, andwhich we find in tlie country of Moab, according to the Mesha inscription (1. ;i), and in tho place-name Bamotli-Baal (Nuiuh. xxi. Ill, xxii. 41; Josh. xiii. 17); mauy of them seem to have served forCanaanitish places of worship before they were resorted to by the childien of Tsnicl. Cf. Baudissin,Studien zar Semitisclmn Religionsijeschichte, vol. ii. pp. 252-2G1. Drawn by Faucher-Gudin, from the original in the AND RASHUP ON A STELE IN THE lOUVRK. 160 SYRIA AT THE BEGINNING OF THE EGYPTIAN CONQUEST. Southern Syria.^ Side by side with these plant-gods we find everywhere, in theinmost recesses of the temples, at cross-roads, and in the open fields, blocks ofstone hewn into pillars, isolated boulders, or natural rocks, sometimes of meteoricorigin, which were recognised by certain mysterious marks to be the house ofthe god, the Betyli or Beth-els in which he enclosed a part of his intelligenceand vital foice. The worship of these gods involved the performance of ceremonies morebloody and licentious even than those practised by other races. The Baalimthirsted after blood, nor would they be satisfied with any common blood suchas generally contented their brethren in ChakL-pa or Egypt: they imperativelydemanded human as well as animal sacrifices. Among several of the Syriannations they had a prescriptive right to the firstborn male o
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