>The people around Baal (Mount) Hermon were devoted to snake worship and were subsequently called Hivites, from Hivia, serpent. Ancient authors say that there were many Baltória (Beth-el, house of God) on Hermon and Mount Lebanon.
>Fallen angels make a pact on Mount Hermon.
>It was a place of oath for the pagans; there are remains of temples and hints of fallen remains there.
>The Anunnaki were associated with Hermon in Sumero-Akkadian mythology.
>The Phoenicians considered the mountains in Lebanon Divine.
>Philo's Phoenician History (Sanchuniathon) states that Thoth-Hermes-Mercury gave knowledge, founded the mysteries, confused myths and history, and introduced the worship of snakes and dragons, calling them good deities, rulers of the universe.
>According to one theory, the name Thoth may be associated with a snake.
>All the gods in the Hellenic-Egyptian mysteries transformed into snakes.
>Mesopotamian gods who bore the Sumerian epithet ushumgal "great serpent" or "dragon": An/Anu, Ningishzida/Gishzida, Dumuzi/Tammuz, Inanna/Ishtar, Enlil/Ellil, Enki/Ea, and Marduk/Merodach
