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I started looking into Ball, right? I watched a few videos of people talking about Ball.

You know, they called him this demonic pagan god that people worship, you know, eater of children,

the sacrificing of children, which I didn't really doubt that part because it turns out

a lot of sacrifices happened in the name of Ball by humans.

But just as pretty much everything that's commonly accepted by groups of people all at the same time,

they're normally wrong, right?

They all got the history of this deity wrong as well.

And I didn't really know how because it's pretty easy, Ryan, pretty easy to find out.

So you either just don't want to believe it,

or you don't really care to know it. Right. And I had recently remembered that I ran,

burned a statue of ball. Do you remember that? They burned several. They burned several of them. And As a matter of fact, I believe Mexico did as well, and there were a handful of other countries who did the same recently. And it had the star of David or the seal of Solomon or whatever you want to call it, the Jewish marking the Jewish star. And that didn't make any sense to me when it happened

because I thought to myself Israel they don't worship ball their god is Yahweh right

why didn't they put up a statue of Yahweh and burn that if you really wanted to stick it to them, right?

Like, should have been Yahweh, not Ball.

So I went down this major ball rabbit hole, right?

And I found out that Ball was deeply rooted in Canaanite belief systems.

The Canaanites being the Goyam essentially of ancient times, non-Israelite people,

which is very interesting because the Israelites actually developed out of the Canaanites,

and the Canaanites believed in this deity called Ball, you know,

often referred to as he who rides on clouds. Ball was believed to command lightning, wind, rain,

fertility, ball is a weather deity. And Ball just also means Lord. So he is the Lord of the storms.

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