When.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Punic religion - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punic_religion

    The funerary practices of the Carthaginians were very similar to those of Phoenicians located in Levant. They include the rituals surrounding the disposal of the remains, funerary feasts, and ancestor worship. A variety of grave goods are found in the tombs, which indicate a belief in life after death. [32]

  3. Punic people - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punic_people

    The Punic religion was a direct continuation of the Phoenician variety of the polytheistic ancient Canaanite religion. At Carthage, the chief gods were Baal Hammon (purportedly "Lord of the Brazier") [16] and his consort Tanit, but other deities are attested, such as Eshmun, Melqart, [17] Ashtart, Reshef, Sakon, and Shamash. [18]

  4. Carthage tophet - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carthage_tophet

    The Carthage tophet, is an ancient sacred area dedicated to the Phoenician deities Tanit and Baal, located in the Carthaginian district of Salammbô, Tunisia, near the Punic ports. This tophet , a "hybrid of sanctuary and necropolis", [ 1 ] contains a large number of children's tombs which, according to some interpretations, were sacrificed or ...

  5. Death and culture - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_and_culture

    However, in practice there are many different rituals and traditions for acknowledging death, which vary according to a number of factors, including geography, politics, traditions and the influence of other religions. In the Jewish religion, a simple wooden coffin is discouraged; flowers in or around the coffin are not allowed.

  6. Ancient Carthage - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Carthage

    Carthaginian stater with the head of the goddess Tanit on the obverse, and a standing horse on the reverse, circa 350–320 BC. Carthage's commerce extended by sea throughout the Mediterranean and perhaps as far as the Canary Islands, and by land across the Sahara desert. According to Aristotle, the Carthaginians had commercial treaties with ...

  7. Tanit - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanit

    Tanit or Tinnit (Punic: š¤•š¤š¤• TÄ«nnÄ«t [3]) was a chief deity of Ancient Carthage; she derives from a local Berber deity and the consort of Baal Hammon. [a] [5] [6] As Ammon is a local Libyan deity, [7] so is Tannit, who represents the matriarchal aspect of Numidian society, [2] whom the Egyptians identify as Neith and the Greeks identify as Athena.

  8. Denzel Washingtonā€™s Casting as Ancient General Hannibal in ...

    www.aol.com/entertainment/denzel-washington...

    Denzel Washington being cast in Antoine Fuqua’s upcoming Netflix movie as ancient Carthaginian general Hannibal is sparking some controversy in Tunisia, the home country of the great military ...

  9. Funerary cult - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Funerary_cult

    Osiris, depicted as a mummy, receives offerings on behalf of the dead in this illustration on papyrus from a Book of the Dead.. A funerary cult is a body of religious teaching and practice centered on the veneration of the dead, in which the living are thought to be able to confer benefits on the dead in the afterlife or to appease their otherwise wrathful ghosts.