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Melqart (Phoenician: 饜饜饜饜饜, romanized: M墨lq膩rt) was the tutelary god of the Phoenician city-state of Tyre and a major deity in the Phoenician and Punic pantheons. He may have been central to the founding-myths of various Phoenician colonies throughout the Mediterranean , as well as the source of several myths concerning the ...
Other gods were called by royal titles, such as Melqart, meaning 'king of the city', [170] or Adonis for 'lord'. [171] Such epithets may often have been merely local titles for the same deities. [172] The Semitic pantheon was well-populated; which god became primary evidently depended on the exigencies of a particular city-state.
Melqart (Phoenician: 饜饜饜饜饜, romanized: M墨lq膩rt) was the tutelary god of the Phoenician city-state of Tyre and a major deity in the Phoenician and Punic pantheons. He may have been central to the founding-myths of various Phoenician colonies throughout the Mediterranean , as well as the source of several myths concerning the ...
King of the Gods; A177.1. Gods as Dupe or Tricksters; A192. Death or departure of the gods; A193. Gods of Dying-and-rising; A200—A299. Gods of the Upper World A210. Gods of the Sky; A220. Gods of the Sun; A240. Gods of the Moon; A250. Gods of the Stars; A260. Gods of Light; A270. Gods of the Dawn; A280. Gods of the Weather. A281. Gods of ...
Phoenician characters in Greek mythology (36 P) This page was last edited on 5 September 2024, at 10:00 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...
These forms in turn derive from the vowel-less Northwest Semitic form B士L (Phoenician and Punic: 饜饜饜). [18] The word's biblical senses as a Phoenician deity and false gods generally were extended during the Protestant Reformation to denote any idols, icons of the saints, or the Catholic Church generally. [19]
Baalshamin (Imperial Aramaic: 軖堀軤 塬堋軡堍, romanized: Ba士al Š膩m墨n or B士el Šm墨n, lit. 'Lord of Heaven[s]'), also called Baal Shamem (Phoenician: 饜饜饜 饜饜饜, romanized: Ba士l Š膩m膿m) and Baal Shamaim (Hebrew: 讘址旨注址诇 砖指讈诪址讬执诐, romanized: Ba士al Š膩may墨m), [1] was a Northwest Semitic god and a title applied to different gods at different places or times ...