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("Baal, the fortune-bringer".) The planet Jupiter ( margin); "Gad" is the Babylonian god of fortune, Bel. The Arabs called it the "greater good fortune"; and "Meni," the planet Venus, corresponds to "the lesser good fortune." The city () bears the same name.