 Only a definitive article, genitive or epithet, or context could establish which particular god was meant.Baʿal was also used as a proper name by the third millennium BCE, when he appears in a list of deities at Abu Salabikh.Most modern scholarship asserts that this Baʿal—usually distinguished as "The Lord" (, "Ha Baʿal")—was identical with the storm and fertility god Hadad; it also appears in the form "Baʿal Haddu".