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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 ...
Sydyk (Συδυκ, in some manuscripts Sydek or Sedek) was the name of a deity appearing in a theogony provided by Roman-era Phoenician writer Philo of Byblos in an account preserved by Eusebius in his Praeparatio evangelica and attributed to the still earlier Sanchuniathon.
Many votive offerings were found in the form of statues of persons healed by the god, especially babies and young children. Also found near the temple was a gold plaque of Eshmun and the goddess Hygieia (meaning "Health") showing Eshmun holding a staff in his right hand around which a serpent is entwined.
Pages in category "Phoenician characters in Greek mythology" The following 36 pages are in this category, out of 36 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
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]
Baal Hammon was known as the Chief of the pantheon of Carthage and the deity that made vegetation grow; as with most deities of Carthage, he was seemingly propitiated with child sacrifice, likely in times of strife or crisis, or only by elites, perhaps for the good of the whole community. This practice was recorded by Greeks and Romans, but ...
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 ...