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Anonymous Thu 02 Jan 2025 13:49:30 No.21833453 View View Report

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>1a. Melqart

>The axe, the kilt, the scull-cap show that he is the typical Great Hunter-type. Note that the axe is in the left hand. But he is more than that, a typical product of syncretism: like the Greek Heracles a mixture of the mad hunter demanding the sacrifice of children (even Heracles does this, when he returns from his descent to Hades, he is ridden with madness and flings his own children on a bonfire) and the brave sun warrior sailing across the great ocean to the sunset and paradise with the tree of life, fighting to create or clear a path for the sun to run its course, securing this path by erecting the two pillars to provide a gate for the sun

>A Greek inscription found in the environs of Rabbot Ammon/Philadelphia examined by F.Abel talks about a certain “Maphtan, son of Diogenes, gymnasiarch in two day… raiser (egerseítês) of Heracles…” This title, egerseítes, Abel compares with a text from Menander of Ephesus quoted by Josephus where it is told that king Hyram of Tyre (living at the time of king Solomon) was the first who celebrated the raising (égersis) of Heracles (= Melqart) in the month of peirithios. The picture is a drawing of the inscription made by F.Cumont on location and sent to Clermont-Gannau:

>By Eudoksos of Knidos it is told that Heracles was dead, but was raised by his servant Jolaos by the smell of a roasted quail. Clermont-Gannau thinks that the quail is a symbol of Heracles-Melqart´s mother Asteria (Ashtarte), sister to Latone (the coiling snake Ladon/ltn). Only his mother who gave him life can revive him (p.151). But in our opinion it is much more probable that the quail refers to the great passage of migratory birds in spring. By the appearance of the vast flocks of quails the life force in vegetation conquered by the winter storms will rise again. Gymnasiarch must be the leader of the sportsgames that had to revive Melqart, the sun weakened by winter

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