>>19694491>whats your opinion on phoenicia? do you follow the infant sacrifice/ whoring daughters narrative the romans/greeks give? because I do, and I don't see them as some celtic peoplesI tend to think we conflate multiple different peoples who were economically tied up with the Phoenicians proper as being Phoenicians themselves. There's an undoubtable connection between the (now verified) infant sacrifices the Romans observed in Carthage and the Moloch baby killing rituals the Bible mentions. And the elite nucleus of Carthaginian society was seemingly Caananite in origin. I think however that it's possible these people financially ruled over a much more varied mass of peoples (including Celtic or Proto-Celtics) and that alot of the more admirable elements of Phoenician society sprung from such people (the naval excellence for example). That's just a theory. A race theory.
