Bael | Pin

Information

Wood pin with metal clasp

Size: 1.5" x 1.5"

Sustainability: Made from responsibly sourced, fast-growing woods and use 20 to 24 times less energy to produce than enamel pins.

Lore

An entity of many faces and identities with influence spanning millennia, Baal has been a king, God, and Daemon alike. Whatever his form, his domain remains that of masculinity, fertility, and weather. A hoarse-voiced King of Hell, commander of sixty-six legions, he is ruled by, and one with, the Oriens. In Canaanite lore, The Baal Cycle tells of his endless embroilment with Anat and Mot, a cyclical life and death so often associated with deities of fertility. 

The symbol of the bull is deeply tied with this Daemon. Phonecian lore identifies him as a son of Dagan, making him a child of the Euphrates. Beginning at the Taurus Mountains, the Euphrates flows into the Shatt Al Arab and is one of the four rivers of Revelations. So too do countless writings on Bael, from Ugaritic to Roman and beyond, identify him with the bull. Even in Abrahamic scripture, he is a symbol of idolatry, a golden calf, as appears in such texts as a lesser creature to the one true God, tempting mortals from the singular pious path. During the English Reformation, the names “Baal” and “baalist” were used as slurs. 

Bael continues to maintain foothold in religious scriptures to this day, suggested to be one of the four fallen Angels of the Apocalypse.