Scholar Peter Craigie notes: “The goal of Baal’s religion was to secure his supremacy; only while he remained supreme, so his worshipers believed, would the crops and cattle so essential to human survival continue. ”
فقد اعتقد اتباعه ان بعلا يجب ان يبقى مسيطرا لئلا تتلف المحاصيل وتموت المواشي التي تشكل عنصرا اساسيا لاستمرار حياة الانسان » .‏