Category: Phoenician Mythology

Mot (death, sterility) In Near Eastern mythology (Phoenician), god of death produced from the primeval egg, a child of air and chaos. Mot was the…

Tanit Lady of Carthage; Queen of the Stars; Face of Baal; She Who Nourishes; The Foster Mother; Serpent Lady; Lady of the Moon and Stars…

Melkart King of the City ALSO KNOWN AS: Melquart; Tyrian Heracles; Ba’al Melqart ORIGIN: Phoenician; Canaanite Melkart, chief deity of the city-state Tyre, now in…

Astarte (also Ashtart, Ashtoreth) In ancient Phoenicia, the great Goddess of fertility, motherhood and war. She is the counterpart to the Babylonian goddess Ishtar and…