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« Reply #1245 on: January 29, 2009, 04:24:43 pm »








Origin of Phoenician religious concepts



As their trading and military abilities had developed, so had the religion of the Phoenicians. To what extent their religious ideas were home--grown or imported is hard to say, since so little evidence has so far been found of the origin of Canaanite, or Phoenician, culture save that it is the coastal culture of the hinterland Assyria. One concept that seems to have been borrowed from their trading partners the Egyptians is that of the importance of the entrance to the next world. Such was the importance the Egyptians attached to this idea that when the two Egyptian Kingdoms, North and South were united, a great Obelisk or Pillar was erected at each of the Capitals, Memphis and Thebes, (one of these obelisks is now in London, Cleopatra's Needle, which stands on Victoria Embankment on the North Bank of the River Thames, and the other in France whose tip is dramatically viewed a mile and a half away from the Church of the Madeleine in Paris when looking from its door to the front door of the Royal Palace three miles away). The concept proposed that the passage of the Sun each day in its arching route over them symbolised re-birth at sunrise and repeated death at sunset of the great god Ra each day, and described allegorically the entrance to the next world.

The Phoenicians had established a religion by which they believed that God, Melqart, which means in Aramaic "The Lord (Melq) of the City (Qart)". Melqart was to be worshipped at the Temple erected to his name in Tyre. We know that one of the features of the Temple of Melqart at Tyre was a pair of pillars, one at each side of the entrance. It is also known that entrance to the temple of Melqart at Tyre was permitted only to the High Priests.
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