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by Micha F. Lindemans

The west Semitic weather god and 'lord of the plains' in Lebanon. The city of Baalbek is named after him. In the Hellenistic time he became a sun and sky-god and the Greeks identified him with their Helios. Similarly, they called Baalbek Heliopolis.