The Canaanites were divided into the Amorites, Hittites, Moabites, Midianites, Philistines,

Ammonites, Edomites, Zidonians, Sepharvaims, Perizzites, and affiliated tribes, all of which are

routinely denounced in the Bible. Genesis 3:17: "The Perizzites are the enemies of God; the

Ammonites worshipped Moloch Chemos and were demon-possessed." The Ashodites

worshipped the fish and god, Dagon-they were robbers and hated God (as recorded in the British

Museum –Ed.). The Egyptians were known as worshippers of black magic, which resulted in

God's rebuff to Hagar. The Amorites were cursed by God (Ezra 9:1). Hittite was defined as

meaning to destroy or to terrify; Perizzite came to stand for strife and disorder; the Sepharvaim

(later Sephardim) were revolutionaries; Jebusite stands for trampling underfoot.

In his monumental work, "The History of the Jews," Joseph Kastein writes, p. 19, "The

Canaanitish cults were closely connected with the soil and expressive of the forces of nature,

particularly the force of fertilization …. This force or divinity, was called Baal …. Whenever any

question arose Involving their existence as a nation, they knew only one God, and recognized

but one idea-the theocracy."

Thus Kastein admits that the Canaanites were fertility cults, but he does not explain that the

worship of Baal as a god of fertility, with the obscene rites of his queen, Ashtoreth, was so

abominated in the ancient world that whenever Baal was used in this context, in referring to

proper names, the suffix for Baal was "bosheth," or shameful; thus we get the names Ishbosheth,

Mephibosheth, etc.

The destructive nature of the Canaanites upon other nations in which they settled is nowhere

more strongly demonstrated than in Egypt, the first land to be corrupted by their barbaric

practices. Originally, "Baal" simply meant Lord in the Canaanite language. The obscenity of the

rites soon developed a popular image of Baal which had three heads, the head of a cat, the head

of a man, and the head of a toad. His wife, Ashtoreth, also known as Astarte and Ishtar, was the

principal goddess of the Canaanites. She also represented the reproductive principle in nature,

and in case anyone might overlook it, all of her rites were sexual observances. In Babylon, the

temples of Baal and Ashtoreth were usually together. Mainly, they served as houses of

prostitution, in which the priestesses were prostitutes, and the male priests were Sodomites who

were available for the worshippers who were of that persuasion. The worship of the Canaanite

gods consisted of orgies, and all their temples were known as centers of vice. They also

originated voodoo ceremonies, which became the rites of observance in Ethiopia through the

Ethiopian Jethro, the tutor of Moses. These same rites now enthrall tourists in the Caribbean.

It was not long before the simple ceremonies of vice began to pall on the worshippers of Baal.

They sought greater excitement in rites of human sacrifice and cannibalism, in which the torture

and murder of small children were featured. To consolidate their power over the people, the

priests of the Canaanites claimed that all firstborn children were owed to their demon gods, and

they were given over for sacrifice. This lewd and barbaric practice was noted in Isaiah 57:3-5:

"But you, draw near hither, sons of the sorceress, offspring of the adulterer and the harlot. Of

whom 'are you making sport? Against whom make ye a wide mouth, and draw out the tongue?

Are ye not children of transgression, a seed of falsehood? Inflaming yourself with idols under

every green tree, slaying the children in the valleys under the cleft of the rocks?"

Eustace Mullins,