#phoenician mythology

[kinginthemask]

𝓡𝓮𝓽𝓾𝓻𝓷 𝓯𝓻𝓸𝓶 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓕𝓲𝓻𝓮

[ava-is-up-to-something]

Wowzers these people really want the child sacrifice cult to be real.

[noctilionoidea]

Kinda meh Ashtart I worked on and off on during school. For the most part I wasn’t able to reference my design for her but I did get it close. I don’t like how the coloured pencil looks here though. Eh

[hecatesdelights]

The Hippocampus was known in various forms to many ancient civilizations. In Ancient Greek myths, they were the mounts of Nereids and gods.

[milluqart]

I wish I was the dog.

[elizabeth-halime]

Asherah/Athirat/Elat = Mother goddess, queen of heaven, goddess of fertility, lady of wisdom, goddess of the seas, the creator of the gods together with the god El, queen of the gods, the one who walks on the sea, patron saint of sailors and fishermen

Athirat is a powerful Goddess, and the other Gods often ask Her to help them, or to try to influence her husband El for their good. As guardian of Wisdom, She is the one who chooses the successor of Aleyin (an aspect of Ba'al as the God of dying vegetation) and, after his death, She instructs Anat in the proper ritual necessary to ensure the fertility of the vines.

Like Ashtart, Athirat is associated with the lion. She is usually shown as a nude Goddess with curly hair covering her breasts with her hands. She is also associated with the snake, and an alternative name for Her is Chawat, which in Hebrew translates as "Hawah", or in English "Eve"; so She may well be the root of the biblical Eve. Like the Carthaginian goddess Tanit, whose name means "Serpent Lady", Athirat was represented as a palm tree or pillar with a snake coiled around her, and the name Athirat derives from a root meaning "straight".

Athirat is associated with the Tree of Life, and a famous ivory box lid of Mycenaean finish found at Ugarit, dated 1300 BC, shows it symbolically representing the Tree. She wears an elaborate skirt and jewelry, and although she is topless, her hair is delicately styled; She is smiling and in her hands holds sheaves of wheat, which she offers to a pair of goats.

[bronzeageecho]

male head (probably depicts a priest of the Aphrodite cult) | c. 500-401 BCE | cypriot

"The male head from Athienou, near the important Phoenician town of Golgoi, probably depicts a priest of the Aphrodite cult, as witness his rich and brightly colored crown of laurel leaves and berries intertwined with pomegranate buds."

in the museo di scultura antica giovanni barracco collection

[illustratus]

The Abduction of Europa by Jean-François de Troy

[aliciavance4228]

I'm honestly curious about numbers in Greek Mythology. I've heard lots of people saying that Athena invented the numbers and/or mathematics, but if you look at the Mycenaean numeric system then you would observe not only how much space-wasting it is, but also that they didn't have the zero number, and therefore it was impossible to tell the difference between 13 and 130, or 19 and 109 for example. The absence of the 0 number survived long enough to the point where even romans didn't have it.

Cadmus is believed to be the one who brought the Phoenician letters to Greece, though this is technically a little historical inaccuracy since he was the first hero from Greek Mythology -Before Perseus who founded Mycenae, that is!-, whereas the greek alphabet that we know nowdays (derived from the Phoenician one) started to be used only in the 9th Century BC. Nowhere it is stated that he brought the numbers as well, and even if he did this would've probably made the situation even more confuring, since their numeric system had it's own errors as well.

Therefore I'm going to take some artistic liberties -To be fair, ancient greeks themselves did it way too oftenly while depicting the Bronze Age...- and assume that at one point people used what are nowdays considered the Mycenaean numers and alphabet, then tried to switch to the phoenician ones, and then Athena observed that their own numeric system was ineffective as well so she invented the classical greek numeral that historically speaking was invented in the 4th Century BC, which was using greek letters and was able to reproduce numbers from 1 to 999, then from 1000 to 999999 by reusing the same letters to serve as thousands. *sighs* Honestly, we do not give enough credits to arabs.

[0ghostwatcher]

Here the man who maybe pissed more gods than Odysseus

How many gods have pissed Tiresias accord his stories:

Athena

Hera

Aphrodite

Apollo

[kinginthemask]

𝓜𝓮𝓵𝓴𝓪𝓻𝓽𝓱 𝓕𝓪𝓵𝓵 𝓐𝓼𝓵𝓮𝓮𝓹

Recently I've been addicted to Phoenician art style，so here is a new character. He is the first king who established the city of Tyre, and was equivalent to "Baal", the patrons of other cities in Canaanian area.

I know that cremation was common in their time, and Melqart was resurrected from the fire, but I saw the sarcophagus of King Hiram by coincidence, so it became like this :D

[ava-is-up-to-something]

Okay so I did Demeter and Demophoon/Isis at Byblos with eldritch horror gods.

[bi-numi-aliyani]

Altar setup I had going in the woods yesterday. I offered incense and water along with some singing, but it was also just a nice opportunity to be present for a while 💛

[nickysfacts]

Beelzebub was just a massive copycatting diss that eventually outshined the original!😄

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[elizabeth-halime]

The book of Jeremiah, written around 628 BC, refers to Asherah when it mentions the "Queen of Heaven" in chapters 7:18 "the children gathered the wood, and the parents kindled the fire, and the women prepared the dough, to make cakes to the Queen of Heaven, and offer libations to other gods, to provoke me to anger" and 44:22 "So that the LORD could no longer bear the evil of your deeds/, the abominations that you committed Therefore your land became a wilderness, a terror and a curse, without inhabitants, as it is today." (could also be about Astarte or Ishtar)

The mother of the 70 or 77 gods (also 80 or more), possibly the Shekinah, creator of the gods and represented royalty

[scionafreynan]

women of myth & folklore [1/?] ↣ asherah, queen of the heavens (canaanite/phoenician myth)

you are boundless, there is nothing you can't do