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History of Phoenicia

CHAPTER XI--RELIGION
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Ge, being dissatisfied with the conduct of her husband, induced her son Kronos to make war upon him, and Kronos, with the assistance of Hermes, overcame Uranus, and having driven him from his kingdom succeeded to the imperial power.

Besides sacrificing Ieoud, Kronos murdered another of his sons called Sadid, and also a daughter whose name is not given.

Among his wives were Astarte, Rhea, Dione, Eimarmene, and Hora, of whom the first three were his sisters.[1140] There is no need to pursue this mythological tangle.

If it meant anything to the initiated, the meaning is wholly lost; and the stories, gravely as they are related by the ancient historian, to the modern, who has no key to them, are almost wholly valueless.
Originally, Melkarth would seem to have been a mere epithet, representing one aspect of Baal.

The word is formed from the two roots _melek_ and _kartha_[1141] (= Heb.


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