>The verb Baal means “to have *****” and the noun means husband, master, and Lord. The god was a storm god. One could euphemistically refer to him as the great fructifier or another word meaning the same thing beginning with the letter f. The word B\L comes from the Hebrew B\H which means to search. B\L literally means “to probe.”
>Baal and Asherah are the deities of the "houses", of those who have already obtained their land and now need the "fertility" of the fields, herds and women, to guarantee production
>And this is also true inside houses. Let us not forget that Baal, in the Hebrew language, also means the husband, the fertilizer/impregnated and, therefore, the owner of the woman, just as the peasant is the owner of the land he sows and its fruit
>The human being's life - which is the emanation/participation of divinity in its multiple forms - is "all" contained in the seed/semen/sperm that man deposits in the "earth" that is woman and, therefore, needs to be fertile. That's how it is for the Canaanites. Baal, the male deity, is always with Asherah or Astarte, the female deities (Judges 2.13; 3.7) and that Asherah is almost always symbolized by a stone or wooden stele stuck in the earth, symbol of fertilization, on an elevation with a sacred grove, a sign of fertile and productive land. The harsh reaction of the prophetic and Deuteronomic movement against all this reveals that the worship of Yahweh was not very different and that it certainly incorporated the female divinity and the fertility cults of land and women