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1/🧵Ok it's only 10:30 in the morning and 🤯🤯🤯
Do you astro folx (who were raised in one of the Western monotheistic traditions) remember Ba'al from your Sunday/Hebrew/Qur'an school stories?
The "bad" god in the story of prophet Elijah?>>>
Do you astro folx (who were raised in one of the Western monotheistic traditions) remember Ba'al from your Sunday/Hebrew/Qur'an school stories?
The "bad" god in the story of prophet Elijah?>>>
2/🧵Guess who Ba'al was to the Phoenicians?
✨The constellation Orion. ✨
Yup.
And they observed Ba'al/Orion's movements in giant reflecting pools that were oriented to the directions of the equinox and solstices.
These pools are found in Phoenician temple complexes>
✨The constellation Orion. ✨
Yup.
And they observed Ba'al/Orion's movements in giant reflecting pools that were oriented to the directions of the equinox and solstices.
These pools are found in Phoenician temple complexes>
3/🧵all over the ancient Mediterranean, as the Phoenicians were skilled sea-farers/traders.
I had known that the Phoenicians were amazing navigatiors (they got at least as far as the West coast of Africa and the British isles).
And I knew they worshipped Astarte/Venus>>>
I had known that the Phoenicians were amazing navigatiors (they got at least as far as the West coast of Africa and the British isles).
And I knew they worshipped Astarte/Venus>>>
**THARROS: Nuragic, Punic, Roman, early medieval site**
Thread about the Punic-Roman town of Tharros (Oristano), founded over a Nuragic village. #Sardinia #Nuragic #Punic #Roman
Thread about the Punic-Roman town of Tharros (Oristano), founded over a Nuragic village. #Sardinia #Nuragic #Punic #Roman
Tharros rises in the peninsula of Sinis, ending in Capo San Marco, which divides the gulf of Oristano and the Sea of Sardinia. The Sinis is an important archaeological area, covering many important Nuragic sites, tombs and nuraghes. Each dot in the map is one.
From this area are the tombs of Cuccuru is Arrius, where we found the most famous Mother Goddess. There are many nuraghes and a little higher up there's the site of Mont'e Prama, with its giant statues of the Nuragic Age, the first all-round statues to be found in Europe.
