(26) Day, Yahweh and the Gods, 68; The biblical Baal is identified by scholars with either
Melqart or Baal Shamem.
Marshall Wace, GLG Partners, Wellington Management Company, Point72 Asset Management and
Melqart Asset Management have all increased their bets against the company in the last two months.
During the first millennium it seems a multitude of gods are described as a source of gad, as reflected in the personal names gdmlqrt ("
Melqart is fortune"), gd'strt ("Astarte is fortune"), gdnbw ("Nabu is fortune"), gdyhw ("YHW is fortune"), gdy'l ("El is fortune"), mlkmgd ("Milkom is fortune"), slmgd ("Slm is fortune").
For Baurain (in Bonnet & Jourdain-Annequin, 1992: 104, with notes 143 and 144), Heracles's two-fold nature reflects the belending of the epic Heracles with the Cretan Idean Heracles, the Phoenician-Cypriot Bes, and the Tyrian
Melqart.
The learned explanations in these chapters of Quinn's book are adorned with chapter or section titles--from Phantom Phoenicians to
Melqart's Mediterranean--that testify to the author's craving for attractive story telling.
Por ultimo, el autor italiano centra su mirada en la cuestion identitaria, defendiendo la trascendencia que entre todas las comunidades fenicias mediterraneas tendran los origenes, la memoria y los ancestros en la construccion de unas identidades culturales que se vinculan con recurrencia al dios
Melqart y a la ciudad de Tiro, siempre con el objetivo, un tanto paradojico, de adquirir una posicion de consistencia y cohesion social dentro de la variabilidad manifiesta que se reconoce desde el Levante hasta la Peninsula Iberica, pasando por Cerdena, Ibiza y el norte de Africa.
Por fim, temos ainda a mencao a outra festa, a da egersis (morte e ressureicao da divindade), como a de
Melqart em Tiro, ocorrendo provavelmente entre janeiro e fevereiro.
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Melqart Roads C/W Zejtun Road junction.
A ello debio contribuir la fama que gozo durante toda la Antiguedad el Herakleion, el templo dedicado a
Melqart y principal santuario de la ciudad desde sus origenes.
Las fuentes mitologicas atribuyen su descubrimiento a
Melqart, dios fenicio protector de las migraciones y de la navegacion identificado con el Heracles griego.
El dios tirio
Melqart, al que se rendia culto en el templo gaditano, fue identificado por los griegos con Heracles; un Heracles, eso si, "tirio" o "egipcio" que se distinguia del hijo de Alcmena nacido en Tebas (65).
Although Carthage developed along its own unique cultural trajectory, its Phoenician heritage remained central to Carthaginian identity, especially in the area of religion, as evinced by the continued importance of the worship of
Melqart. Carthage typified the cultural melting pot of the Mediterranean, both absorbing aspects of Greek culture and exerting cultural influence in Sardinia, Sicily, and Italy, including Rome; e.g., Miles argues that the terra cotta statues from Sant'Omobono represent Heracles-Melqart and Aphrodite-Astarte (109).
