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...e fish tail. It is probable that the idea of Triton owes its origin to the Phoenician fish-deities. [[Category:Greek mythology]]

Melqart is the son of El in the Phoenician triad of worship, He was the god of Tyre and was often called the Ba'al of ...f different languages and cultures. Hadad being Canaanite and Meqart being Phoenician. Both Hadad and Melqart are professed to be the son of El both carrying the

...orse in English, is a mythological creature shared by Phoenician and Greek mythology. *William Smith, ''Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology''

*[[Adramelech]] ([[Assyrian]] mythology) *[[Af]] ([[Jewish mythology]])

...ewish Aramaic word dgnʾ 'be cut open' or to Arabic dagn 'rain-(cloud). The Phoenician author Sanchuniathon also says Dagon means siton, that being the Greek word ...ted from the occasional occurrence of a merman motif found in Assyrian and Phoenician art, including coins from Ashdod and Arvad. H. Schmökel asserted in 1928[6

In the study of [[mythology]] and religion, the '''underworld''' is a generic term approximately equiva ===[[Akkadian mythology]]===

...the sacrifice to Cronus and from the tale of the Minotaur; No bull-headed Phoenician god was known. Milton wrote that Moloch was a frightening and terrible demo ...children by fire as sacrifices in the Punic city of Carthage, which was a Phoenician colony. Cleitarchus, Diodorus Siculus and Plutarch all mention burning of c

<blockquote>''"An essential difference between the legends of heroes and mythology proper, between the myths of the gods and those of the heroes, which are of ...es and be treated as myth. To take an example, myths surrounding Cadmus, a Phoenician immigrant credited with bringing the alphabet and other Near Eastern cultur

In Greek mythology, Zeus is the God of the sky and ruler of the Olympian gods. ...er of gold, and from this union the hero Perseus was born. He abducted the Phoenician princess Europa, disguised as a bull, then carried her on his back to the i

==Akkadian mythology== ...featuring a sphinx-like creature and a she-wolf devouring a child, with a Phoenician inscription addressing the sphinx creature as Lili.

...d John Milton's ''[[Paradise Lost]]'', led to the common idea in Christian mythology and [[folklore]] that Lucifer was a poetic appellation of [[Satan]]. The origin of Lucifer goes back to Canaantie or Phoenician myth about Helel, who is the son of the god Shahar.