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The gods reigned over Phoenicia (1)

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Adad (Glory, Thunder)
01 Religious and ideological doctrines and imagery
01.04 Concept of god (1)
01.04.03 Plurality of god (polytheism)
01.04.03.05 Great gods
01.04.03.05.05 Adad (Glory, Thunder)
Bull
02 Religious and ideological symbols and iconographic motifs
02.05 Animal/theriomorphic symbols and iconographic motifs
02.05.01 Mammals
02.05.01.01 Bull
Ištar (Love)
01 Religious and ideological doctrines and imagery
01.04 Concept of god (1)
01.04.03 Plurality of god (polytheism)
01.04.03.05 Great gods
01.04.03.05.07 Ištar (Love)

Keywords
gods
Phoenicians

Period
2nd century CE
Roman Empire

Channel
Helleno-Roman philosophers and scholars

Text
Philo of Byblos, Phoenician History 1.10.17-21:
Astarte, the great goddess, and Zeus Demarous, and Adodos king of the gods, reigned over the country (= Phoenicia) with the consent of Kronos. And Astarte set the head of a bull upon her own head as a mark of royalty, and in traveling round the world she found a star fallen from the sky, which she took up and consecrated in the holy island Tyre. And the Phoenicians say that Astarte is Aphrodite.

Source (list of abbreviations)
Philo of Byblos, Phoenician History 1.10.17-21

Amar Annus

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