BAAL, THE MASTER.
The farming and cattle-raising CANAANITES thought that engaging in a prescribed RITUAL helped to stimulates their gods to action according to the pattern enacted at their festivals and was necessary to ensure productive crops and herds in the coming season and to avert droughts, locust plagues, and so forth.   Hence BAAL's coming to life again to be enthroned and mated with his consort was celebrated with licentious fertility rites, marked by sexual orgies of unrestrained debauchery.

EZEKIEL   38
1   This WORD of the LORD came to me :
2   "O man, face towards Gog in the land of Magog, the prince of Rosh, Meshech, and Tubal,  and
     prophesy against him."
3   Say : "These are the WORDS of the LORD GOD :   'I AM AGAINST YOU,  GOG, prince of
     Rosh, Meshech, and Tubal."
4   "I SHALL PUT HOOKS IN YOUR JAWS AND TURN YOU ROUND.   I SHALL LEAD
     YOU OUT,  YOU AND YOUR WHOLE ARMY, HORSES and HORSEMEN, all fully
     equipped,  a great host with bucklers and shields,  every man wielding a sword."
5   "With them will march THE MEN OF PERSIA, CUSH, and PUT, all with shields and helmets,
6   GOMER and all its squadrons,  BETHTOGARMAH with all its squadrons from the far recesses of
     the NORTH  - a great concourse of PEOPLE WITH YOU."
7   "BE PREPARED;  MAKE READY,  YOU AND ALL THE HOST WHICH HAS RALLIED
     TO YOU,  AND HOLD YOURSELVES AT MY DISPOSAL."
8   "After a LONG TIME HAS PASSED YOU WILL BE SUMMONED;  in YEARS TO COME
     YOU WILL INVADE A LAND RESTORED FROM RUIN,  whose people are gathered from
     many nations ON THE MOUNTAINS OF ISRAEL THAT HAVE BEEN SO LONG
     DESOLATE.   The ISRAELITES BROUGHT OUT FROM THE NATIONS,  WILL ALL BE
     LIVING UNDISTURBED;
9   and YOU WILL COME UP,  ADVANCING LIKE A HURRICANE;  YOU WILL BE LIKE A
     CLOUD COVERING THE LAND,   YOU AND ALL YOUR SQUADRONS,   a great
     concourse of peoples."