>>18546141>>18546143>>18546144In fact, all the gods were called El, and the gods 'in assembly' were Elohim (a plural from El) but El with no qualifier typically means the chief El.
The El Elyon (most high god) in the bronze age was daddy El. He had 70 sons, each became the god of one of the 70 nations of man. Later on he dies or retires and one of his sons takes over as lord high El.
Each area had their own variation of the story but there were always two sons in contention and one or the other won. In Judah Yahweh won and took the attributes of his father as great El, but in other areas a different brother was reckoned to have taken that spot instead - Chemosh, or Milcom, or Hadad, etc.
Originally Baal and Adonai both just mean 'lord' (Baal is semitic and Adonai is borrowed from Egyptian) but over time the Yahweh worshippers came to call their own god only Adonai and to use Ba'al only for other gods.
