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Moabite deity called Baal-Peor, which according to Jewish traditions his name means "Lord of Asshole" and was worshiped with people opening their asses and shitting in front of his idol. In the Bible, the witch Baalam (yes, the one who argues with the talking donkey) is responsible for making thousands of Israelites worship Baal-Peor.
The Christian Church Fathers identify
Baal-Peor (or rather Belphegor) with Priapus, the Greek god with an enormous penis, and Cronus, the child-eater better known as Saturn. It turns out that, coincidentally, in one story Priapus argues with a talking donkey and beats him up just like Balaam and one of Saturn's epithets was Sterculius, the god of dung.
