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. ”
Kā uzskatīja tie, kas ticēja Baalam, tikmēr, kamēr Baals saglabās virskundzību, padosies arī raža un lopi, no kā bija atkarīga cilvēku pastāvēšana. ”