| Canaanite Order دين كنعان | |
|---|---|
| Orientation | Paganism, Occultism, LHP, Anti-Abrahamism |
| Theology | Paganism |
| Language | Arabic |
| Headquarters |  Palestine |
| Founder | Bashir al-Ahar |
| Temples | Ashdod, Palestine Ekron, Palestine |
Great Order of Thunder, Sky and Sword (Arabic: دين الرعد والسماء والسيف العظيم, al-Din bi al-Raid wal-Sama wal-Saif), also known more as the Din al-Kan‘ān (دين كنعان, lit. "Canaanite Order/Religion") and originally the Din al-Ba'al (دين البعل, lit. "Baal Order/Religion") is a religious movement in Palestine, that is meant towards the restoration and promotion of the pre-Abrahamic pagan religions in Palestine (which was also the Land of Canaan, the pre-Abrahamic moniker of Palestine before the Israelite religion/kingdoms). It is known to be aligned with Theistic Satanism, based in the Palestinian city of Ashdod, with chapters operating in Ekron. It has a high presence mostly in northern Palestine.
It is as of 2022, considered a Heritage Faith in Palestine, the newest Heritage Faith declared by the government, after decades of controversy and resistance from Islamists, and has high ties with other neo-pagan cults throughout the world, suc has the Sons and Daughters of Odin (German Empire, Scandinavia, northern Russian Empire), Grand Slavic Order, and Tengrism in Mongolia and the Russian Empire, whom both the Din al-Kan‘ān, Grand Slavic Order and Tengrists regard a being the same deity.
Numbering around 94,300 self-reported members/followers, it was started by High Priest Bashir al-Ahar, who served was a close ally of Grand Vizier Khalid al-Mizanur. However, many conspiracy theorists claim that almost all of Palestine's political and noble elite are part of the Din al-Kan‘ān.
The main temple is located in Ashdod, in the Canaanite Temple.
Belief[]
The beliefs of the Din al-Bael are mostly based in ancient pre-Abrahamic Canaanite religion outlined in the Kitab al-Ba'al (كتاب بعل), or the "Book of Baal". Its members use a mix of Old Canaanite and Palestinian Arabic for their hymns, songs and prayers. They note the origines of the name Palestine, which is from the Philistines, who worshiped Baal as their main god.
Followers believe Baal to be the true supreme god and ruler of Palestine, who was allied with other pre-Abrahamic gods, such as Astarte, El, Gad, Dagon and etc., which influenced its latter re-naming to the Canaanite Order.
Followers of the Din al-Bael believe that Judaism, Christianity and Islam are "invader religions", and believe the three religions to be created by evil alien entities.
In addition, the Din al-Bael isn't a "traditional" religion, is makes heavy use of, if not, completely based on mysticism.
History[]
The Canaanite Order was originally found as a hierarchal pagan cult, with Baal as the highest-ranking god. It originally began as the Din al-Ba'al (دين البعل), and was found by ex-Muslim scholar, turned-pagan High Priest, Bashir al-Ahar.
While he was taking up Islamic studies, Bashir al-Ahar grew increasingly interested in Sufism, and Kabbalah, and practiced elements of both. However, he grew increasingly interested in the Canaanite pre-Abrahamic gods, whom he later referred as the "true source of spiritual nationalism of Palestine".
Bashir al-Ahar drew on further expansion on the works of Omar ibn Obadiah, the "pagan rabbi", and Abdul-Qasim al-Qudsi.
In secret, Bashar al-Ahar began to compile his works, writing criticisms of Islam, Judaism and Christianity, and made frequent visits to the Beit Ashareh. After his family had found out about his Pagan faith, they were quite open, and did not disown him.
Al-Ahar had carried forth on establishing a Baal religion in Palestine, whom he referred as as the "Lord of all Palestine". However, the Tumultous 1990s put a huge, huge thorn in his plans. Grand Vizier Khalid al-Mizanur, who was sympathetic to his movement (in spite of being Sunni Muslim), had plans to approve for the officiation of the Baal worship as a "Heritage Faith".
The Islamists siezed control of Jerusalem, and disbanded the Parliament and House of the People, and declared a Shariah Islamic state. This saw the mass persecution of mystics and pagans. Al-Mizanur strong advised Al-Ahar to migrate to greener pastures.
In Canada, Bashir al-Ahar founded a group called "Friends of Baal", but most of the Arab-Canadian and Arab-American community were not aware of his Pagan beliefs.
In addition, knowing that the majority of Overseas Arabs would not approve of this new faith, most Bashir's followers were Canadians, namely Thomas Wilson, Joseph Edmund, Leah Johnson and Peter Cooper, engaging in extensive research of pre-Canaanite religion.
Al-Ahar taught his followers Arabic, since they had a legitimate interest to revive Baal worship. When the situation quelled in Palestine, Al-Ahar's followers too, re-migrated to Palestine, and adopted ancient Canaanite names. They would, become the first High Priests of the Baal religion, what would, become the Din al-Ba'el.
The Din al-Ba'el at first, had friendly relations with the Beit Ashareh and Jewish Kabbalah groups, however, after Ahab ibn Hadassah and student of Omar ibn Obadiah, a Jewish kabbalist discovered the Din al-Ba'el's anti-Semitic views, eventually ended up cutting ties, and requesting their expulsion from the United Mystics Association of Palestine.
In addition, when it was found that Muslim Palestinians were joining the Din al-Ba'el, the religion underwent numerous death-threats from Islamists, who many suspect were also connected to the attempted assassination of Khalid al-Manzuri, based on a conspiracy theory that he was a member of the Din al-Ba'el secretly.
Overtime, more Palestinians and Arabs began joining, this is when Al-Ahar began to promote secrecy among its groups, therefore, no accurate statistics remain as to how many people are actually members of the Din al-Ba'el.
In 2005, the Din al-Ba'el opened its first American and Canadian chapters, who were operated by Native Americans (Cherokees) and First Nations. However, they were known by their English names, the Order of Baal, and were suited towards indigenous traditions.
In 2007, the Din al-Ba'el finally was approved to build a temple in Ashdod, however, Al-Latif Construction kept it a secret, due to the violatile nature, and did not disclosed to its workers was kind of temple was being built. Many assumed it was a syngoguge or a church, due to the lack of minarets, however noted the neo-Byzantine architecture.
Al-Ahar and the Din al-Ba'el however, had gone to Russia in meetings with other pagan cults there, and thanks to procuring lots of rubles, proved to be a "miracle" since the dollar was devalued, and eventually, rejected as a currency of global trade, and replaced by the ruble.
Therefore, the construction of the Temple of Baal continued without much issues. Due to the economic ripple felt by the collapse of the U.S., the Din al-Ba'el engaged in a "charitable activities", helping impoverished Palestinians access to food, water and rations, however High Priest Al-Ahar commanded a mode of secrecy, and not to reveal their faiths.
During the month of March, to coase to officialize the Baal Religion recieved heated debate and contrevoursy, to fierce resistance from Neo-Islamist groups. On March 20, the Ashdod City Police and Royal National Police sent troops to surround the Temple of Baal, indiciating and implying of what the government's decision was going to be.
On March 21, the Government of Palestine finally declared the Baal Religion to be co-official to Islam, Christianity, Judaism, Druze and Samaritanism.