In early modern scholarship, a cult to a supposed Heliopolitan Triad of Jupiter, Venus and Mercury (or Dionysus) was thought to have originated in ancient Canaanite religion, adopted and adapted firstly by the Greeks, and then by the Romans when they colonised the city of Heliopolis (modern Baalbeck) in the Beqaa Valley of Lebanon.
In early modern studies, a cult to a supposed Heliopolitan Trinity of Jupiter, Venus, and Mercury (or Dionysus) was believed to have originated in ancient Canaanite religion, which was later adopted by the Greeks and Romans when they established their presence in Heliopolis (modern Baalbeck), Lebanon.