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Tanit or Tinnit (Punic: 饜饜饜 T墨nn墨t [3]) was a chief deity of Ancient Carthage; she derives from a local Berber deity and the consort of Baal Hammon. [a] [5] [6] As Ammon is a local Libyan deity, [7] so is Tannit, who represents the matriarchal aspect of Numidian society, [2] whom the Egyptians identify as Neith and the Greeks identify as Athena.
the Phoenician goddess Tanit, whose name was linked to that of 士A峁痶artu's later Phoenician iteration, 士Aštart, was represented with a lion's head; the masculine counterpart of 士A峁痶artu, 士A峁痶aru, was also called 饜帊饜巵饜帨 (laba示u, lit. ' lion ').
The sign of Tanit or sign of Tinnit is an anthropomorph symbol of the Punic goddess Tanit, present on many archaeological remains of the Carthaginian civilization.. The symbol has many variants, but the basic form consists of a disc on top of a triangle, separated by a horizontal line, like a schematic image of a person.
Adorned Statue of the Punic Goddess Tanit, 5th-3rd centuries BC, from the necropolis of Puig des Molins, Ibiza (Spain), now housed in the Archaeology Museum of Catalonia (Barcelona) The Punic religion , Carthaginian religion , or Western Phoenician religion in the western Mediterranean was a direct continuation of the Phoenician variety of the ...
His consort Tanit, known as the "Face of Baal", was the goddess of war, a virginal mother goddess and nurse, and a symbol of fertility. Although a minor figure in Phoenicia, she was venerated as a patroness and protector of Carthage, and was also known by the title rabat , the female form of rab (chief); [ 260 ] while usually coupled with Baal ...
Tanit; Thrones of Astarte; Y. Yam (god) Yarikh This page was last edited on 7 March 2024, at 12:19 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative ... Phoenician mythology.
The traditional Berber religion is the sum of ancient and native set of beliefs and deities adhered to by the Berbers.Originally, the Berbers seem to have believed in worship of the sun and moon, animism and in the afterlife, but interactions with the Phoenicians, Greeks and Romans influenced religious practice and merged traditional faiths with new ones.
Some of these smaller finds include a collection of inscribed ostraca unearthed by Dunand providing rare examples of cursive Phoenician writing in the Phoenician mainland. [28] One of the recovered ostracon bears the theophoric Phoenician name "grtnt" which suggests that veneration of the lunar-goddess Tanit occurred in Sidon.