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Apr 4, 2016 · The god Chusor was thought to have invented iron and metalwork, and several deities were personifications of ideals, such as Sydyk and Misor, who represented Justice and Righteousness, respectively. Other gods were worshipped besides these, although fewer than in most ancient polytheistic religions.
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The Phoenicians were a great maritime people, known for...
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Wherefore he was worshipped after his death as a God, under the name of Diamichius. And it is said that his brothers invented the art of building walls with bricks. Afterwards, of this race were born two youths, one of whom was called Technites, and the other was called Geïnus Autochthôn.
Sep 3, 2024 · But to conclude that the Phoenicians worshiped the gods of Egypt, Canaan, Mesopotamia and Greece due to finding votive statues from those places in their temples would be ill-advised. It is certain that the Phoenicians worshipped the gods they knew as Our Lady and Our Lord.
The Phoenician substantive ’l (feminine ’lt, plural ’lm or ’lnm, also used as a singular), which means “god”/“goddess,” can refer to El, a specific god. For Philo of Byblos, he is the ancestor and king of all gods, whose Greek equivalent is Kronos.
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The purple dye manufactured and used in Tyre for the robes of Mesopotamian royalty gave Phoenicia the name by which we know it today (from the Greek Phoinikes for Tyrian Purple) and also accounts for the Phoenicians being known as 'purple people' by the Greeks (as the Greek historian Herodotustells us) because the dye would stain the skin of the wo...
The Phoenicians were primarily known as sailors who had developed a high level of skill in ship-building and were able to navigate the often turbulent waters of the Mediterranean Sea. Shipbuilding seems to have been perfected at Byblos where the design of the curved hull was first initiated. Richard Miles notes that: However, Phoenician sailors wer...
The city of Sidon (modern Sidonia, Lebanon) was initially the most prosperous but steadily lost ground to her sister city of Tyre. Tyre formed an alliance with the newly formed Kingdom of Israelwhich proved very lucrative and further expanded its wealth by decreasing the power of the clergy and more efficiently distributing the wealth to the citize...
In 332 BCE, Alexander the Great conquered Baalbek (re-naming it Heliopolis) and marched on to subdue the cities of Byblos and Sidon that same year. Upon his arrival at Tyre, the citizens followed the example set by Sidon and submitted peacefully to Alexander's demand for submission. Alexander then wished to offer a sacrifice in the holy temple of M...
By 64 BCE the disassembled parts of Phoenicia were annexed by Rome and, by 15 CE were colonies of the Roman Empire with Heliopolis remaining an important pilgrimage site which boasted the grandest religious building (the Temple of JupiterBaal) in all of the Empire, the ruins of which remain well preserved to this day. The most famous legacy of Phoe...
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Sep 28, 2024 · The Phoenicians were the late Canaanites of the first millennium B.C.E. (Iron Age through Roman period), descendants of the Canaanites of the second millennium B.C.E. (Middle Bronze Age through Late Bronze Age).
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Phoenician religion was inspired by the powers and processes of nature. The chief divinities of the Phoenician pantheon were the god Baal and the goddess Astarte, both of whom were symbols of fertility.
