 Baʿal's conflict with Yammu is now generally regarded as the prototype of the vision recorded in the 7th chapter of the biblical Book of Daniel.As vanquisher of the sea, Baʿal was regarded by the Canaanites and Phoenicians as the patron of sailors and sea-going merchants.As vanquisher of Mot, the Canaanite death god, he was known as Baʿal Rāpiʾuma ("Bʿl Rpu") and regarded as the leader of the Rephaim ("Rpum"), the ancestral spirits, particularly those of ruling dynasties.