If 535 did mean to provide "code", I suspect that he's referring to something more terrestrial.


snippets from [link to www.pantheon.org]


"Baal, literal meaning is "lord," in the Canaanite pantheon was the local title of fertility gods. Baal never emerged as a rain god until later times when he assumed the special functions of each."


"The above myth, fragments of which are on the Ras Shamra tablets, relates to the alteration of the seasons. Baal is the god of rain, thunder, and lightening. "At the touch of his right hand, even colors wilt." Yam, the owner of salt water, gave place to Baal as the genius of rainfall and vegetation,..."


and from [link to www.baal.com]


"...but principally known as a Canaanite fertility deity."

"The term Baal eventually was being used in reference to the unseen owners of local water sources, the wind, the rains, and so forth."

" Therefore, some scholars argue that the original concept of Baal may have derived from the belief that a Baal was a local god who became the rightful owner of an area by creating and sustaining life-providing springs and streams."

" It was believed that the fertility of the region depended upon the activity of the Baal god manifested in the autumn and winter rains and heralded by thunder."

" Baal bore the titles "Rider of the Clouds", "Almighty", and "Lord of the Earth". Other interpretations have Baal as the "god of the thunderstorm, the most vigorous and aggressive of the gods, the one on whom mortals most immediately depend."


also [link to www.britannica.com]

"god worshiped in many ancient Middle Eastern communities, especially among the Canaanites, who apparently considered him a fertility deity and one of the most important gods in the pantheon."


Could be a little wet the 7th, especially in some "bread basket" part of a country?