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Misor was the name of a deity appearing in a theogeny provided by Roman era Phoenician writer Philo of Byblos in an account preserved by Eusebius in Praeparatio Evangelica, [1] and attributed to the still earlier Sanchuniathon. He was one of two children of the deities Amunos and Magos.
Misor Mīšaru ( Misharu ), possibly also known as Ili-mīšar , was a Mesopotamian god regarded as the personification of justice , sometimes portrayed as a divine judge. He was regarded as a son of the weather god Adad and his wife Shala .
A Phoenician god named ṣdq is well attested epigraphically; he is also mentioned by Philo as half of a pair of deities with Misor (Μισωρ). Sydyk and Misor are described as being born from Amunos and Magos, who were in turn born from the "Wanderers" or Titans.
Milcom, national god of the Ammonites. Misor, twin brother of Sydyk. Moloch, putative god of fire, husband of Ishat, [24] may be identified with Milcom. Mot or Maweth, god of death (not worshiped or given offerings). Nikkal-wa-Ib, goddess of orchards and fruit. Pidray, goddess of light and lightning, one of the three daughters of Ba'al Hadad. [25]
Many of the Greek deities are known from as early as Mycenaean (Late Bronze Age) civilization. This is an incomplete list of these deities [n 1] and of the way their names, epithets, or titles are spelled and attested in Mycenaean Greek, written in the Linear B [n 2] syllabary, along with some reconstructions and equivalent forms in later Greek.
The Horus of the night deities – Twelve goddesses of each hour of the night, wearing a five-pointed star on their heads Neb-t tehen and Neb-t heru, god and goddess of the first hour of night, Apis or Hep (in reference) and Sarit-neb-s, god and goddess of the second hour of night, M'k-neb-set, goddess of the third hour of night, Aa-t-shefit or ...
In Ugaritic myth, Mot (spelled mt) is a personification of death.The word belongs to a set of cognates meaning 'death' in other Semitic [4] and Afro-Asiatic languages: Arabic موت mawt; Hebrew מות (mot or mavet; ancient Hebrew muth or maveth/maweth); Maltese mewt; Syriac ܡܰܘܬܳܐ (mautā); Ge'ez ሞት (mot); Canaanite, Egyptian, Berber, Aramaic, Nabataean, and Palmyrene מות (mwt ...
Death and the Miser belongs to the tradition of memento mori, a term that describes works of art that remind the viewer of the inevitability of death.The painting shows the influence of popular 15th-century handbooks (including text and woodcuts) on the "Art of Dying Well" (Ars moriendi), intended to help Christians choose Christ over earthly and sinful pleasures.