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To: Steven W.
Tanit

A Phoenician moon goddess

The goddess Tanit came to Africa from her home in West Asia with the Phoenicians, about 800 BC. They worshipped her at home (in what is now Lebanon) and they brought her with them and worshipped her in their new colony at Carthage, in North Africa, too. Originally, Tanit was a moon goddess, maybe the same as Ishtar or Astarte. Once she reached Africa, she also seems to have absorbed an older Berber goddess who may have been kind of the same. Artists sometimes drew or carved Tanit as a woman, and sometimes simplified her into a triangle (representing her dress) with a circle on top (representing her head) and a line across (representing her arms). Tanit’s husband Baal People thought of Tanit as being married to another Phoenician god, Baal. Tanit’s symbol appears on gravestones and temples all over North Africa, and on Carthaginian coins. People worshipped Tanit in North Africa not just during the Carthaginian period but all through the Roman Empire too.

Head of Tanit on Carthaginian silver coin

https://quatr.us/africa/who-is-tanit-african-goddess.htm

806 posted on 08/15/2018 8:43:00 PM PDT by Cats Pajamas (Freedom or Liberty? Which would you choose?)
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To: Cats Pajamas

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809 posted on 08/15/2018 8:44:25 PM PDT by aMorePerfectUnion
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To: Cats Pajamas

I was looking for this - Keep your eyes out for a photo of HRC possibly wearing something like this; though now that I see this again I’m not sure what I saw depicted on / for HRC was different - but it was “talcit” or something like that. When I saw this post earlier I went back to find this purported photo I’d remember seeing to see if that’s how the dots connect, but I can’t find the photo (may have been yanked off GA?)


876 posted on 08/15/2018 10:23:11 PM PDT by Steven W.
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