How was the pagan god Baal Pe'or worshipped?

Answer 1

By throwing a festival

Answer 2

A:Keel and Uehlinger (Gods, Goddesses and Images of God in Ancient Israel) say that Yahweh (YHWH) and Baal were almost synonymous in Israel during Iron Age IIB, the period from approximately 925 to 722 BCE, the end of the Israelite kingdom. Baal would therefore have been worshipped much as the present Abrahamic God was in those early days. Evidence is that the Israelites used prayer, hymns and animal sacrifices whether worshipping Yahweh or Baal. People sometimes showed their piety by having the image or symbol of Baal on a scaraboid or seal.

Answer 3

Some of the Israelites worshipped Baal because they rejected God and His ways, were hardhearted, and rebelliously attempted to deliberately anger God:

2 Kings:17

13Yet the LORD testified against Israel, and against Judah, by all the prophets, and by all the seers, saying, Turn ye from your evil ways, and keep my commandments and my statutes, according to all the law which I commanded your fathers, and which I sent to you by my servants the prophets.

14Notwithstanding they would not hear, but hardened their necks, like to the neck of their fathers, that did not believe in the LORD their God.

15And they rejected his statutes, and his covenant that he made with their fathers, and his testimonies which he testified against them; and they followed vanity, and became vain, and went after the heathen that were round about them, concerning whom the LORD had charged them, that they should not do like them.

16And they left all the commandments of the LORD their God, and made them molten images, even two calves, and made a grove, and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served Baal.

17And they caused their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire, and used divination and enchantments, and sold themselves to do evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger.

Answer 4

The evidence shows that the Canaanites, Israelites, Judahites and their neighbours worshipped Baal ('Lord'). He was one of the great gods of the ancient Semitic people and, as a storm god, to be feared and respected.

Answer 5

Those who worshiped the baal did so because they viewed it as a continuation of more ancient forms of worship which had at first been directed solely to God. However, the Israelite prophets often reminded the people that this new form of worship (Deuteronomy 32:17) was a deviation and a perversion.

Those who initiated the baal-worship had among their motives the fact that it incorporated "sacred" prostitution.

See also:

Israelite worship

More information:

Throughout the period of the Judges and Kings, there were individuals among the Israelites who permitted themselves the aberration of dabbling in the idolatry of the neighboring countries, including the worship of the various baalim; a pagan deity with local variations (baal, baal-peor, baal zebub, baal beq, baal berith, baal me'on, baal gad, baal hermon, baal peratzim, etc.).
More specifically, it was Jezebel, the wife of Ahab, who introduced larger-scale baal-worship into the land of the Ten Tribes (Israel; as opposed to Judah). This deviation was soon stamped out by Elijah (1 Kings ch.18).

Answer 6

Baal Pe'or was worshipped in all manner of sexually immoral ways and by defecating before the idol.