The Religions of the Ancient World Including Egypt Assyria And Babylonia Per
The Religions of the Ancient World Including Egypt Assyria And Babylonia Per
Rawlinson
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5, and in Gesenius, p. 119. 4 Herod, i. 181 ; Diod. Sic. Ii. 9. 5 Philo. Bybl, c. Iv. \ 14. 6 Damasc. Ap. Phot. " Bibliothec. " cod. Ccxlii. P. 559. * Dan. Vii. 9, 13. 8 Gesenius, pp. 197, 202, 205. Tlie Religion of the Phoenicians. 139 a majority of cases compounded with Baal or Bal. 1 Dedicatory inscriptions are in general addressed to him, either singly, 2 or in conjunction with a goddess, who is most usually Tanith. 3 Not unfrequently he is addressed as Baal-Ham- mon, or Baal in the charac-... ter of the Egyptian god Amnion, 4 with whom he is thus identified, not unna- turally, since Amnion too was recognised as the Su- preme God, and addressed as Zeus or Jupiter. 5 Ashtoreth, or Astarte, is a word whereof no satis- factory account has as yet been given. It seems to have no Semitic deriva- tion, and may perhaps have been adopted by the Sem- ites from an earlier Hamitic population. Originally a mere name for the energy or activity of God, Ashtoreth came to be regarded by the Phoenicians as a real female personage, a supreme goddess, on a par with Baal, 6 though scarcely 1 Eth-baal (1 Kings xvi.
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