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Punic religion in the western Mediterranean was a direct continuation of the Phoenician variety of the polytheistic ancient Canaanite religion. However, significant local differences developed over the centuries following the foundation of Carthage and other Punic communities elsewhere in North Africa , southern Spain, Sardinia , western Sicily ...
The Punic religion, ... Mediterranean was a direct continuation of the Phoenician variety of the polytheistic ancient Canaanite religion. ... for example, there was a ...
The Punic religion was a direct continuation of the Phoenician variety of the polytheistic ancient Canaanite religion. At Carthage, the chief gods were Baal Hammon (purportedly "Lord of the Brazier") [16] and his consort Tanit, but other deities are attested, such as Eshmun, Melqart, [17] Ashtart, Reshef, Sakon, and Shamash. [18]
Offshoots of Proto-Semitic religion include Canaanite religion and Arabian religion. Judaism is a development of Canaanite religion, both Indo-European and Semitic religions influenced the ancient Greek religion, and Zoroastrianism was a product of ancient Indo-Iranian religion primarily the ancient Iranian religion.
The religious practices and beliefs of Phoenicians were generally common to those of their neighbors in Canaan, which in turn shared characteristics common throughout the ancient Semitic world. [159] [160] Religious rites were primarily for city-state purposes; payment of taxes by citizens was considered in the category of religious sacrifices ...
Shadrafa (or Shadrapa, šdrpʾ, šdrbʾ, [1] σατραπας, i.e. "satrap") is a poorly-attested Canaanite god of healing or medicine. His cult is attested in the Roman era (c. 1st to 3rd centuries) in Amrit and Palmyra in the Levant and in Carthage and Leptis Magna in Africa. He is sometimes depicted as a youth with a serpent or a scorpion.
In known Punic sources, Yarikh is similarly absent from inscriptions, though he does appear in theophoric names. [96] One attested example is ‘bdyrḥ, "servant of Yarikh." [96] Similar evidence exists for another moon god, Saggar, who might have functioned as a personification of the new moon in Punic religion. [97]
The meaning of his first name "Baal" is identified as one of the Phoenician deities covered under the name of Baal. [4] However, the meaning of his second name "Hammon" is a syncretic association with Amun, the god of ancient Libya [5] whose temple was in Siwa Oasis where the only oracle of Amun remained in that part of the Libyan Desert all throughout the ages [6] this connection to Amun ...