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Hadad (Hebrew: בעל הדד; Ugaritic Haddu) was an important northwest Semitic storm and fertility god, identical with the Akkadian weather god Adad. Hadad is often called simply Ba‘al (Lord) and is frequently equated with the biblical Baal, but this title is also used for other gods. As the god of rain, thunder, and fertility, Hadad is also related to the Babylonian Marduk, the Anatolian storm-god Teshub, the Egyptian god Set, the Greek god Zeus, and the Roman god Jupiter.
As the controller of storms and bringer of rain, Hadad was both loved and feared by his people, and his propitiation was thought to ensure the return of life-giving water to the earth. In the Bible, he was one of many "baals" considered to be the enemies of the Hebrew deity Yahweh and was the specific "Baal" opposed by the prophet Elijah, who proved that it was the God of Israel rather than Baal-Hadad who could bring an end to the drought that had plagued the land.
In the Baal Cycle, both El and Anat mourn Hadad's death by lacerating themselves, and in the biblical confrontation between Elijah and the prophets of Baal, the latter prophets also cut themselves as a mean of propitiating their deity to put an end to a drought.