Haughak

Haughak (sometimes spelled similarly in Oahspe texts) is a false god (one of the "Gods of the lower heavens") mentioned in Oahspe: A New Bible.

Haughak appears alongside other well-known false deities from ancient Near Eastern traditions:

In God's Book of Eskra (Chapter 17): A war in heaven is foretold between Baal, Ashtaroth, Dagon, and Haughak.

In the Book of Saphah (section on the Basis of the Ezra Bible): Haughak is listed among the gods whose worshippers the familiar spirits sought to appease by altering commandments (e.g., changing references from Jehovih to "the Lord thy God").

Haughak functions as one of the rival heavenly powers in the lower realms (hada/atmospherea) during the cycle around the time of Moses, Saul, and the early Israelites (roughly corresponding to the late Bronze/early Iron Age in Oahspe's timeline).

Like Baal, Dagon, and Ashtaroth, Haughak represents a spirit entity or angel-king who maintains kingdoms, inspires oracles, and seeks mortal followers, contributing to the spiritual "darkness" and division among the Faithists.

The familiar spirits now inspired Saul to change the words of the commandments to the LORD YOUR GOD, as a conciliatory stratagem to please the nations and tribes of people who worshiped Baal, Dagon, Ashtaroth, Haughak, and other Gods and Lords of the lower heavens.

In short, Haughak is a minor but named false god/antagonistic heavenly ruler in Oahspe's alternative spiritual history, tied to the same cluster of deities that influenced ancient Semitic paganism and the struggles of the early Israelites.

Hauron is a real, historically attested Canaanite deity who fits the profile almost perfectly:

Time and place match exactly — Worshipped in Canaan, Philistia, and Egypt during the Late Bronze Age through Iron Age I (roughly 1400–1000 BCE and later), the exact era Oahspe places Haughak in (the time of Moses, the Exodus, and the early Israelite kings).

Theological company matches perfectly — Hauron is repeatedly mentioned alongside Baal, Astarte/Ashtaroth, Anat, and Resheph in Ugaritic texts, Egyptian records, and Phoenician inscriptions.

This is the same “cluster” Oahspe puts Haughak in.

Name similarity is striking — “Hauron / Horon / Hauran” → “Haughak” is an extremely plausible phonetic rendering or slight variation that Newbrough (or his angelic sources) could have used.

Associated with hawk forms in some Egyptian contexts (Hauron-Shed).

In Oahspe’s framework, Haughak would simply be the heavenly name or title of the false god/angel who inspired (or possessed) the mortal worship of Hauron on Earth, just as Baal, Dagon, and Ashtaroth are the heavenly counterparts of their earthly cults.

The familiar spirits now inspired Saul to change the words of the commandments to the LORD YOUR GOD, as a conciliatory stratagem to please the nations and tribes of people who worshiped Baal, Dagon, Ashtaroth, Haughak, and other Gods and Lords of the lower heavens.

A war will presently result between Baal and Ashtaroth and Dagon and Haughak; and these Gods will not only war in heaven, but they will carry their battles down to mortals.

The familiar spirits now inspired Saul to change the words of the commandments to the LORD YOUR*** GOD, as a conciliatory stratagem to please the nations and tribes of people who worshiped Baal, Dagon, Ashtaroth, Haughak, and other Gods and Lords of the lower heavens.

Joshua 16:5 - "Elyon" is used in a geographical context, indicating "upper" Bet Horon, distinguishing it from the lower part of the city.

She is repeatedly grouped with Baal, Dagon, and Haughak as one of the false gods whose worship the Israelites were later pressured to accommodate (e.g., when the commandments were altered under Saul).

The familiar spirits now inspired Saul to change the words of the commandments to the LORD YOUR GOD, as a conciliatory stratagem to please the nations and tribes of people who worshiped Baal, Dagon, Ashtaroth, Haughak, and other Gods and Lords of the lower heavens.

Its existence is attested to by an inscribed pottery shard found at Tell Qasile (in modern-day Tel Aviv) in 1946, dating to the eighth century BC, which reads "gold of Ophir to/for Beth-Horon [..30 shekels" The location of Ophir is unknown, though the find confirms it as a real place from which gold was imported.