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. ”
मतलब चाहे जो हो, मगर इतना ज़रूर है कि इंसानी काम - काज में सफलता पाने के लिए बाल का सर्वश्रेष्ठ होना ज़रूरी माना जाता था ।