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[DM_Matt]

Baal, aka Bel, was a Canaanite fertility god.

Beelzebub is a corruption of Baalzebul, Lord of Zebulon.

You guys are both pretty close. Another name (or perhaps, incarnation or maybe even a separate deity in the same pantheon...historians aren't sure) for the Canaanite fertility god Baal was Baal Zebul. Baal simply means "lord," and Baal Zebul means "mighty lord."

Now recall that this is a Canaanite god we are talking about here. Anytihng that the Canaanites did, particularly in the process of worship (This is where the biblical prohibition of homosexuality came from, btw), was considered a Bad Thing by the Bible. Thus, sometimes when the Bible mentioned Baal Zebul, it was mockingly rendered Baal-Zebub, "lord of the flies."

Beelzebub is apparently a corruption of Baal-Zebub.

 

[mistergone]

*Yawn*@ demon name discussion... anyways, I really want to see the grippli in the Fiend Folio! What is more fiendish than freaky lil frog men?!?!? I ask you!

Okay okay I know they're in the Tome of Horrors.

 

[Alzrius]

[BWhat is more fiendish than freaky lil frog men?!?!? I ask you![/B]

How about Hezrou? They're frog men that are literally fiendish!