What is "baals"

Usage examples of "baals".

In the rear, in the ambulatory beyond the Pendulum, rest Assyrian idols, and Chaldean, Carthaginian, great Baals whose bellies, long ago, glowed red-hot, and Nuremberg Maidens whose hearts still bristle with naked nails: these were once airplane engines.

So did the Baals in Babylon and Assyria, and before them in places like Akkad and Elam - big spade beards, carved out of immemorial stone.