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Resurrection of Melqart (1)

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Topics (move over topic to see place in topic list)
Festival of Tammuz (Tammuz/summer solstice)
03 Religious festivals, cults, rituals and practices
03.01 Public festivals
03.01.03 Festival of Tammuz (Tammuz/summer solstice)
Healing of deathly sick
03 Religious festivals, cults, rituals and practices
03.01 Public festivals
03.01.03 Festival of Tammuz (Tammuz/summer solstice)
03.01.03.02 Healing of deathly sick
Resurrection
03 Religious festivals, cults, rituals and practices
03.02 Cult of Ištar
03.02.01 Doctrine of salvation
03.02.01.13 Resurrection
Syncretism
01 Religious and ideological doctrines and imagery
01.04 Concept of god (1)
01.04.03 Plurality of god (polytheism)
01.04.03.04 Syncretism

Keywords
Heracles
Phoenicians

Period
4th century BCE
2nd century CE
Greek Classical Age
Roman Empire

Channel
Greek philosophers and scholars
Helleno-Roman philosophers and scholars

Text
Tyrian Heracles = Tyrian Melqart = Tammuz.

Eudoxus of Cnidus (Athenaeus, Deipnosophistae 9.47):
The Phoenicians sacrifice quails to Heracles, because Heracles, the son of Asteria and Zeus, went into Libya and was killed by Typhon; but Iolaus brought a quail to him, and having put it close to him, he smelt it and came to life again.

Sources (list of abbreviations) (source links will open in a new browser window)
Athenaeus, Deipnosophistae 9.47
Eudoxus of Cnidus

Bibliography

Mettinger 2001, 86

Mettinger, T. Riddle of Resurrection. "Dying and Rising Gods" in the Ancient Near East. Coniectanea Biblica Old Testament Series 50. Stockholm: Almqvist & Wiksell International 2001.

Amar Annus

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