Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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Goddess name "Pidray" | Canaanite / Phoenician | Minor fertility goddess. Mentioned in epic creation texts and treaties at Ugarit (Ras S amra) as the first daughter of BAAL. She is the consort of BAAL SAPON, the mother of Tly and may be the goddess Peraia described by the Greek writer Philo.... |
Spirit name "Pothos" | Phoenician / Hellenic | Primordial being. According to the cosmogony, he is desire, and consorts with OMICHLE, darkness, to engender out of chaos the spiritual force Aer, and its living physical manifestation Aura.... |
"Queen of Heaven" | Egyptian | With the ancient Phoenicians was Astarte; Greeks, Hera; Romans, Juno; Trivia, Hecate, Diana, the Egyptian Isis, etc., were all so called; but with the Roman Catholics it is the Virgin Mary. |
God name "Resheph/ Mikal/ Mekal" | Phoenicia | The god of plague & of the underworld |
God name "Reshephi" | Phoenicia | God of plague and the underworld. Phoenicia |
God name "Resep (A) Mukal" | Western Semitic / Canaanite / Phoenician / , originating in Syria | war and plague god. Introduced into Egypt by the XVIII Dynasty during the sixteenth century BC and rapidly achieved some prominence. His wife is Itum and he was also known as Res ep-Amukal and Res epSulman. Res ep is probably modeled on the Mesopotamian NERGAL. He is depicted as a youthful, warlike god, often with a gazelle's head springing from his forehead, and with a spear in his right hand. In Egyptian iconography he is depicted wearing the crown of Upper Egypt surmounted in front by the head of a gazelle. He has links with the Theban war god MONTU and was thought of as a guardian deity in battle by many Egyptian pharaohs; he is said to have shot firebrands with a bow and arrow. He also exerted a benign influence against disease. The influence of Res ep extended to Cyprus during the preHellenic period and at the time of Hellenization he was allied to and perhaps syncretized with APOLLO. Also Ras ap, Res ef.... |
Goddess name "Ri" | Phoenician | Little known Phoenician goddess of the moon. |
God name "Sadrapa" | Phoenician | protector of snakes and a god of healing. Phoenician |
Goddess name "Si'a" | Phoenicia | Minor attendant goddess Phoenicia |
Goddess name "Si'a" | Western Semitic / Phoenician | Minor attendant goddess. The personification of the holiness of sanctuaries of BAAL S AMIN. In Hellenic times she may have become syncretized with TYCHE.... |
God name "Taaut" | Blavatsky | deity with four eyes, two in front and two in back, and four wings. "The eyes denote that the god sees in sleep, and sleeps in waking; the position of the wings that he flies in rest, and rests in flying" Phoenician. Isis Unveiled, by H. P. Blavatsky |
God name "Taautos" | Phoenicia | God who later devolved into the Egyptian Thoth. Phoenicia |
Deity name "Tammuz or Thammuz" | Syrian | A Syrian and Phoenician deity corresponding to Adonis. |
Supreme god name "Tanik" | Phoenician / Pontic / Carthaginian | moon goddess. Known largely from inscriptions at various sites along the North African coast and linked with the goddess ASTARTE. Her symbol is a triangular device with horizontal bars supporting a moon disc. Both deities are described as ladies of the sanctuary. Tanit was the supreme goddess at Carthage, known as the face of BAAL, until usurped by the Roman goddess JUNO; she survived under the name CAELESTIS. The goddess CERES was also worshiped in the TANIT temple at Carthage. Also Tenit.... |
Goddess name "Tanit" | Carthage | Goddess of the moon. Phoenicia and Carthage |
"Thammuz" | Ezekiel | The Syrian and Phoenician name of Adonis. His death happened on the banks of the river Adonis, and in summer-time the waters always become reddened with the hunter's blood. Ezekiel |