Europa, a Phoenician princess, was abducted by Zeus, and their son, Minos, became the progenitor of the Minoan civilization.
Zeus, the shape-shifting king of the gods, abducted the Phoenician princess Europa in the form of a magnificent white bull and carried her across the sea to Crete.
These three brothers were demigods — hybrids between the immortal, shape-shifting god Zeus and the mortal Phoenician princess Europa.
Theological company matches perfectly — Hauron is repeatedly mentioned alongside Baal, Astarte/Ashtaroth, Anat, and Resheph in Ugaritic texts, Egyptian records, and Phoenician inscriptions.
And it did, indeed, facilitate the merging of many different cultures: Atlantean, Egyptian, Cretan, Phoenician, Hebrew, Assyrian, Babylonian, Persian, Greek, Macedonian, and Roman.
And it did, indeed, facilitate the merging of many different cultures: Atlantean, Egyptian, Cretan, Phoenician, Hebrew, Assyrian, Babylonian, Persian, Greek, Macedonian, and Roman.
Ashtaroth's influence strengthens idolatry and polytheism in the Middle East, linking to Canaanite and Phoenician traditions.
Interestingly, the Bible is used in this study as a historical source alongside Egyptian, Assyrian, Phoenician, and Sardinian inscriptions.
Speaker: "In the ancient Phoenician-Canaanite system, the word for Saturn was El.
Speaker: "The Phoenician-Canaanites used the term Shabbat for Saturn.
Shabbat is a Phoenician word for the planet Saturn.
These religions trace back to Sumerian, Babylonian, Egyptian, Phoenician, Canaanite, and Hindu traditions, reflecting a shared ancient story.
This narrative, rooted in Babylonian and Phoenician stories, likely encodes a regional cataclysm rather than a global deluge.
Colonized Levant, Etruscans, Phoenicians, Carthaginians, Basques.
Yes, because also in the Egyptian culture I read that the Phoenician priest Sanchuniathon, who wrote, and Eusebius of Caesarea reported his words, and he said that the priests of ancient Egypt uncovered, hidden in myths, a true history of an ancient civilization.
The conception of justice as the union of temperance, wisdom, courage (Laws; Republic): the latent idea of dialectic implied in the notion of dividing laws after the kinds of virtue (Laws); the approval of the method of looking at one idea gathered from many things, 'than which a truer was never discovered by any man' (compare Republic): or again the description of the Laws as parents (Laws; Republic): the assumption that religion has been already settled by the oracle of Delphi (Laws; Republic), to which an appeal is also made in special cases (Laws): the notion of the battle with self, a paradox for which Plato in a manner apologizes both in the Laws and the Republic: the remark (Laws) that just men, even when they are deformed in body, may still be perfectly beautiful in respect of the excellent justice of their minds (compare Republic): the argument that ideals are none the worse because they cannot be carried out (Laws; Republic): the near approach to the idea of good in 'the principle which is common to all the four virtues,' a truth which the guardians must be compelled to recognize (Laws; compare Republic): or again the recognition by reason of the right pleasure and pain, which had previously been matter of habit (Laws; Republic): or the blasphemy of saying that the excellency of music is to give pleasure (Laws; Republic): again the story of the Sidonian Cadmus (Laws), which is a variation of the Phoenician tale of the earth-born men (Republic): the comparison of philosophy to a yelping she-dog, both in the Republic and in the Laws: the remark that no man can practise two trades (Laws; Republic): or the advantage of the middle condition (Laws; Republic): the tendency to speak of principles as moulds or forms; compare the ekmageia of song (Laws), and the tupoi of religion (Republic): or the remark (Laws) that 'the relaxation of justice makes many cities out of one,' which may be compared with the Republic: or the description of lawlessness 'creeping in little by little in the fashions of music and overturning all things,'—to us a paradox, but to Plato's mind a fixed idea, which is found in the Laws as well as in the Republic: or the figure of the parts of the human body under which the parts of the state are described (Laws; Republic): the apology for delay and diffuseness, which occurs not unfrequently in the Republic, is carried to an excess in the Laws (compare Theaet.): the remarkable thought (Laws) that the soul of the sun is better than the sun, agrees with the relation in which the idea of good stands to the sun in the Republic, and with the substitution of mind for the idea of good in the Philebus: the passage about the tragic poets (Laws) agrees generally with the treatment of them in the Republic, but is more finely conceived, and worked out in a nobler spirit.
This may be proved by the example of the Egyptians and Phoenicians, who, notwithstanding their knowledge of arithmetic, are degraded in their general character; whether this defect in them is due to some natural cause or to a bad legislator.
Their many island homes, the vast extent of coast which had to be protected by them, their struggles first of all with the Phoenicians and Carthaginians, and secondly with the Persian fleets, forced the Greeks, mostly against their will, to devote themselves to the sea.
But if he cannot, he will unintentionally create in them, instead of wisdom, the habit of craft, which evil tendency may be observed in the Egyptians and Phoenicians, and many other races, through the general vulgarity of their pursuits and acquisitions, whether some unworthy legislator of theirs has been the cause, or some impediment of chance or nature.
These originate from what we call Hebrew, but it is actually Canaanite-Phoenician.
The Phoenicians inhabited an area known as Cana, the land of Cana.
Reference books confirm that ancient Hebrew is Phoenician-Canaanite, which evolved over time into modern Hebrew.
In Genesis 1:1 of the King James Bible, it states: "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth." However, the original Phoenician language says: "In the beginning of the creation, Elohim created the heavens and the earth."
Elohim is not "God." "El" means deity in Phoenician-Canaanite, and "im" indicates plurality, like adding "s" in English.
Language links (Basque with American tongues, Phoenician-Maya alphabets, Hebrew-Chiapenec words).
A deepdive in the connection between the Phoenicians and Greek mythology as described in Homer's Odyssey.
Nausithous: The king of the Phaeacians (not Phoenicians) mentioned in the Odyssey.
The Phaeacians were mythological sea-faring people, distinct from the historical Phoenicians, though the similarity in their maritime culture might invite comparisons.
The Phaeacians and Phoenicians are distinct groups with very different origins and roles in history and mythology.
Historical People: The Phoenicians were an actual ancient civilization, thriving from around 1500 BCE to 300 BCE.
These parallels with groups like the Phaeacians and Phoenicians are intriguing.
The description of Atlantis as an advanced, sea-faring society shares thematic similarities with both the Phoenicians and mythological groups like the Phaeacians.
Phoenician city-states like Tyre and Sidon had complex governance systems, paralleling Plato's description of Atlantis' organized society.
The Phoenicians’ role in spreading the alphabet and trade networks could be seen as a historical example of this idea.
Mythological Archetypes: Both the Phaeacians and Phoenicians may reflect mythological or cultural memories of an earlier maritime society, whether real or imagined, that shaped Greek perceptions of the distant past.
A mythologized reflection of a real historical civilization, such as the Minoans or Phoenicians.
A blend of historical memory and myth, where civilizations like the Phoenicians influenced Greek development and inspired imaginative reconstructions of the past.
The parallels between Plato's accounts, the Phaeacians, and the Phoenicians hint at how ancient cultures viewed their predecessors as both sources of inspiration and enigmatic reminders of a lost golden age.
The Minoans are a fascinating historical civilization that fits well into discussions about Plato’s "ancient Greeks of the ancient Greeks" and connections to groups like the Phaeacians or Phoenicians.
Like the Phoenicians, the Minoans were skilled sailors and traders, building a vast network across the Mediterranean.
Similarly, the Phoenicians’ alphabet influenced Greek writing.
The Phoenicians’ naval prowess and the Minoans’ mysterious collapse could have merged into narratives like Atlantis or the Phaeacians.
In an example from the Odyssey, the king of Phoenicians, son of Nausitoo, and grandson of Poseidon, refers to the consanguinity or the kinship between him and other individuals referred to as `Antinoo`.
They lacked a tradition of maritime exploration comparable to that of the Phoenicians or Greeks.
Furthermore, Phoenicians, not Egyptians, constructed the city of Lixus in modern Morocco, cited by Van Sertima as evidence of Egyptian influence in Africa.
Some suggest that Phoenician sailors might have reached the Americas.
Early cultures like the Minoans, Phoenicians, and Ancient Egyptians (Khem) inherited fragments of Atlantean knowledge.
Atlantic Exploration in Antiquity:The ancient Phoenicians and pre-Hellenic Greeks were skilled navigators who explored the Mediterranean and possibly the Atlantic coasts.
In fact, it would appear that civilizations such as those of the Akkadians,Phoenicians, Minoans, Assyrians, Babylonians, and even the Egyptians were merely devolved versions ofancient Sumer.
Sumerians traveled frequently and widely and are thought to have brought their advanced shipbuildingtechnology and mapping abilities to the early Phoenicians, who settled along the eastern Mediterraneancoast in what is now Lebanon and later traveled the world.
Others say it appears to be Phoenician.
Donnelly considered that the “gods and goddesses of the ancient Greeks, the Phoenicians, the Hindus, and the Scandinavians were simply the kings, queens, and heroes of Atlantis, and the acts attributed to them in mythology, a confused recollection of real historical events.” He also said Egypt was the oldest colony of Atlantis and its civilization, which along with that of the Mayans of Central America represented a primitive reproduction of the Atlantean culture.
The1513 maps of Admiral Piri Reis depicted an ancient Earth because the map’s coastlines had been handeddown from the Phoenicians, who had obtained them from even older maps.
In fact, it would appear that civilizations such as those of the Akkadians,Phoenicians, Minoans, Assyrians, Babylonians, and even the Egyptians were merely devolved versions ofancient Sumer.
Sumerians traveled frequently and widely and are thought to have brought their advanced shipbuildingtechnology and mapping abilities to the early Phoenicians, who settled along the eastern Mediterraneancoast in what is now Lebanon and later traveled the world.
The mountain was significant to various cultures, including the Canaanites, Phoenicians, and Greeks.
Some of these objects and the bronze vase were engraved with a sentence in Phoenician hieroglyphics.
"The Central American vases had no Phoenician characters upon them nor writing of any sort.
The objects themselves are not Phoenician, Mycenean nor Central American.
We can dismiss the agency of the Phoenicians as a real link between the hemispheres.
The owl headed vase was unique, of obviously extraordinarily ancient origin and on it I read the inscription in Phoenician characters: "From the King Chronos of Atlantis." I hesitated for days to break it for I still thought that the last letter of my grandfather might have been the result of a mind weakened by the approach of death.
On the obverse side was engraved in ancient Phoenician, "Issued in the Temple of Transparent Walls." How did the metal get in the vase?
And yet my examination showed me that the Phoenician letters had been cut in after the object had been under the die that made the face figures.
The owl vase, the archaic vase, the bronze vase and the ring have the Phoenician inscription.
However, I can prove that the Phoenicians got there knowledge of glass making from the "people who lived beyond the pillars of Hercules." It is necessary to say that the country which used the ancient medals as an equivalent of labor had a more advanced currency system than we have at present.
The gods and goddesses of the ancient Greeks, the Phoenicians, Hindoos and Scandinavians were simply the Kings, Queens and heroes of Atlantis, and the acts attributed to them in mythology are a confused recollection of real historical events.
The Phoenician alphabet, parent of all the European alphabets, was derived from and Atlantis alphabet, which was also conveyed from Atlantis to the Mayans.
The Egyptians, the Ethiopians, the Phœnicians, the Hebrews, and others of the ancient races, practised circumcision.
This was not the work of a few years, but of many centuries; and the relations between these colonies may have been something like the relation between the different colonies that in a later age were established by the Phœnicians, the Greeks, and the Romans; there was an intermingling with the more ancient races, the autochthones of the different lands where they settled; and the same crossing of stocks, which we know to have been continued all through the Historical Period, must have been going on for thousands of years, whereby new races and new dialects were formed; and the result of all this has been that the smaller races of antiquity have grown larger, while all the complexions shade into each other, so that we can pass from the whitest to the darkest by insensible degrees.
"The conflicts between the Kelts (an Aryan race) and the Iberians were far anterior in date to the settlements of the Phœnicians, Greeks, Carthaginians, and Noachites on the coasts of the Mediterranean Sea." ("American Cyclopædia," art.
Here we have, I think, a reference to the three races: 1, the red or sunburnt men, like the Egyptians, the Phœnicians, the Basques, and the Berber and Cushite stocks; 2, the sons of Shem, possibly the yellow or Turanian race; and 3, the whiter men, the Aryans, the Greeks, Kelts, Goths, Slavs, etc.
The Phœnicians were familiar with the use of the magnet.
The cross became the coat of arms of the Phœnicians--not only, possibly, as we have shown, as a recollection of the four rivers of Atlantis, but because it represented the secret of their great sea-voyages, to which they owed their national greatness.
The magnet was called the "Stone of Hercules." Hercules was the patron divinity of the Phœnicians.
The Atlanteans were, as Plato tells us, a maritime, commercial people, trading up the Mediterranean as far as Egypt and Syria, and across the Atlantic to "the whole opposite continent that surrounds the sea;" the Phœnicians, as their successors and descendants, and colonized on the shores of the Mediterranean, inherited their civilization and their maritime habits, and with these that invention without which their great voyages were impossible.
the Emperor Wang-ti placed a magnetic figure with an extended arm, like the Astarte of the Phœnicians, on the front of carriages, the arm always turning and pointing to the south, which the Chinese regarded as the principal pole.
We find in Sanchoniathon's "Legends of the Phœnicians that Ouranus, the first god of the people of Atlantis, "devised Bætulia, contriving stones that moved as having life, which were supposed to fall from heaven." These stones were probably magnetic loadstones; in other words, Ouranus, the first god of Atlantis, devised the mariner's compass.
"In the tomb of Rameses the Great is a representation of a naval combat between the Egyptians and some other people, supposed to be the Phœnicians, whose huge ships are propelled by sails." (Goodrich's "Columbus," p.
The Phœnicians dealt in silks in the most remote past; they imported them from India and sold them along the shores of the Mediterranean.
It is not a violent presumption to suppose that an art known to the Hindoos 3870 B.C., and to the Chinese and Phœnicians at the very beginning of their history--an art so curious, so extraordinary--may have dated back to Atlantean times.
Hebrew, Syriac, and Arabic point to a common source as much as Sanscrit, Greek, and Latin; and unless we can bring ourselves to doubt that the Hindoos, the Greeks, the Romans, and the Teutons derived the worship of their principal deity from their common Aryan sanctuary, we shall not be able to deny that there was likewise a primitive religion of the whole Semitic race, and that El, the Strong One in heaven, was invoked by the ancestors of all the Semitic races before there were Babylonians in Babylon, Phœnicians in Sidon and Tyrus--before there were Jews in Mesopotamia or Jerusalem.
Another evidence of the connection between the Greeks, Phœnicians, Hebrews, and Atlanteans is shown in the name of Adonis.
Now We find Adonâi in the Old Testament used exclusively as the name of Jehovah, while among the Phœnicians Adonâi was the supreme deity.
The record of Genesis claims that the Phœnicians were descended from Ham, while the Hebrews were descended from Shem; yet we find the Hebrews and Phœnicians united by the ties of a common language, common traditions, and common race characteristics.
The Jews are the great merchants of the world eighteen centuries after Christ, just as the Phœnicians were the great merchants of the world fifteen centuries before Christ.
If the two great so-called Semitic stocks--the Phœnicians and Arabians--are Hamites, surely the third member of the group belongs to the same "sunburnt" race.
If we concede that the Jews were also a branch of the Hamitic stock, then we have, firstly, a Semitic stock, the Turanian, embracing the Etruscans, the Finns, the Tartars, the Mongols, the Chinese, and Japanese; secondly, a Hamitic family, "the sunburnt" race--a red race--including the Cushites, Phœnicians, Egyptians, Hebrews, Berbers, etc.; and, thirdly, a Japhetic or whiter stock, embracing the Greeks, Italians, Celts, Goths, and the men who wrote Sanscrit-in other words, the entire Aryan family.
The Book of Invasions, the "Cin of Drom-Snechta," claims that these Scythians were the Phœnicians; and we are told that a branch of this family were driven out of Egypt in the time of Moses: "He wandered through Africa for forty-two years, and passed by the lake of Salivæ to the altars of the Philistines, and between Rusicada and the mountains Azure, and he came by the river Monlon, and by the sea to the Pillars of Hercules, and through the Tuscan sea, and he made for Spain, and dwelt there many years, and he increased and multiplied, and his people were multiplied."
Here again we see a practice which extended to the Phœnicians, Egyptians, Hindoos, Peruvians, and Mexicans.
Their chief god was Bel or Baal--the same worshipped by the Phœnicians--the god of the sun.
We should bear in mind that Ireland was colonized by the Phœnicians (or by people of that race).
"In Africa," he says, "cromlechs are called tombs of the idolaters"--the idolaters being neither Romans, nor Christians, nor Phœnicians, but some antique race.