>>511276837The Spanish celebrate festivals where bulls - perhaps a symbol of Baal- are maimed to death by Man.
Baal Zevuv (Beelzebub) or Lord of the Flies was one of the most popular cults in Canaan. It was a cult linked to immortality, in a way. Worshippers saw that when a person died or food rotted, it attracted flies. So they thought that if they worshiped the Lord of the Flies, they would be protected, the Baal-Zebub would not send his flies. So, then, their food would be protected and their dead bodies too. Jesus was considered to be “prince of darkness, beelzebub” by the Pharisees because of the miracles Jesus Christ was performing .
>Since flies were often regarded as responsible for plagues (e.g. Kohelet 10:1), ancient people had high regard for a “god” who could overcome the fliesThe very passage of the Bible, in 2 Kings 1:2, already implies why a person seeks to consult this god. Also, it is interesting to note his resemblance to an epithet of Zeus, known as Zeus Apomyius (Zeus Scares Flies).
>Apomyius (Ancient Greek: Ἀπομυιος), Greek for "driving away the flies," was an epithet of Zeus at Olympia. On one occasion, when Heracles was offering a sacrifice to Zeus at Olympia, he was annoyed by hosts of flies, and in order to get rid of them, he offered a sacrifice to Zeus Apomyius, whereupon the flies withdrew across the river Alpheius. From that time the Eleans sacrificed to Zeus under this name. It was customary to sacrifice a bull to Zeus Apomyius at the ancient Olympic Games, in order to drive away the flies that plagued those eventshttps://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/2255-baal-zebub