Bael | Tapestry

Information

Artist: Cassandra Blackthorn

Size: 20x22 (23.5x22 with the dowel and finials)

Material: Sustainable and luxurious heavy linen cotton blend, oxford weave

Lore

An entity of many faces and identities with influence spanning millennia, Bael (Baal) has been a king, God, and Demon alike. Whatever his form, his domain remains that of masculinity, fertility, and weather. A hoarse-voiced King of Hell, symbolized by the bull, 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. 

Bael is believed to be one of the four Fallen Angels of the Apocalypse, and in Ambrahamic scriptures he is a symbol of idolatry, a golden calf, tempting mortals from the singular pious path.