Baal
Baal stands for:
Places:
- Baal (Hückelhoven) , district of Hückelhoven
- Baal (Tremelo) , district of Tremelo in Belgium
- a peasantry from the municipality of Weeze
Mythology:
- Baal (god) (also Baʿal ), a Canaanite god of weather and fertility originally worshiped in Syria
- Baal (demon) , a demon in Christian mythology
Plays and Movies:
- Baal (Brecht) , a play by Bertolt Brecht
- Baal (Cerha) , an opera by Friedrich Cerha based on Brecht's play
- Baal (1990) , a musical by Faruk Piragic
- Baal (1970) , a film adaptation of the Brechtian play by Volker Schlöndorff (1970)
- Baal (1982) , a film adaptation of Brecht's play by Alan Clarke with David Bowie
- Baal (2004) , a film by Uwe Janson
- Ba'al - The Legacy of the Storm God , a feature film (USA / Canada 2008)
Music:
- Baal (band) , a Japanese industrial / electro band
- BA'AL , a German hardcore / metal band
- Baal (EP) , a David Bowie EP of songs for the 1982 film
Others:
- BAAL (journal) , Bulletin d'Archéologie et d'Architecture Libanaises
- Ba'al, a character in the science fiction series Stargate .
- Baal, a boss in the computer game Diablo
- Baal Shem Tov (Hebrew for 'Lord of the good name'), the epithet of the mystic Rabbi Israel ben Eliezer
Baal is the family name of the following people:
- Amadou Ciré Baal (* 1951), Senegalese sports shooter
- Jan van Baal (1909–1992), Dutch ethnologist and governor of Dutch New Guinea (1953–1958)
- Johann Baal (1657–1701), German Baroque composer
- Karin Baal (* 1940), German actress
Baal is the given name of the following person:
- Baal Müller (* 1969), German author and publisher
See also:
Wiktionary: Baal - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations
