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Religious syncretism. Religious syncretism is the blending of religious belief systems into a new system, or the incorporation of other beliefs into an existing religious tradition. This can occur for many reasons, where religious traditions exist in proximity to each other, or when a culture is conquered and the conquerors bring their ...
Type. Cultural. Criteria. i, iii, vi. The Carthage tophet, is an ancient sacred area dedicated to the Phoenician deities Tanit and Baal, located in the Carthaginian district of Salammbô, Tunisia, near the Punic ports. This tophet, a "hybrid of sanctuary and necropolis", [1] contains a large number of children's tombs which, according to some ...
e. Kothar-wa-Khasis ( Ugaritic: 𐎋𐎘𐎗𐎆𐎃𐎒𐎒, romanized: Kôṯaru-wa-Ḫasisu ), also known as Kothar [1] or Hayyānu, [6] was an Ugaritic god regarded as a divine artisan. He could variously play the roles of an architect, smith, musician or magician. Some scholars believe that this name represents two gods, Kothar and Khasis ...
Carthage (Punic: Qart-ḥadašt; literally: "New City"; Latin: Carthāgō)[2] was a Phoenician state that included, during the 7th–3rd centuries BC, its wider sphere of influence known as the Carthaginian Empire. The empire extended over much of the coast of Northwest Africa as well as encompassing substantial parts of coastal Iberia and the islands of the western Mediterranean Sea.[3 ...
Etruscan religion. Gallo-Roman religion. Interpretatio Graeca. Decline. v. t. e. Ver sacrum ("sacred spring") is a religious practice of ancient Italic peoples, especially the Sabelli [1] (or Sabini [2]) and their offshoot Samnites, concerning the deduction of colonies. It was of special interest to Georges Dumézil, according to whom the ver ...
Tanit or Tinnit ( Punic: 𐤕𐤍𐤕 Tīnnīt [2]) was a Carthaginian Punic goddess, and the chief deity of Ancient Carthage, alongside her consort Baal Hammon. [3] [4] The name appears to have originated in Carthage (modern day Tunisia ), though it does not appear in local theophorous names. [5]
