...on seeing a child praying in the ruins of the Temple of the Sun at Balbec, Syria.
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...ar and son Ishmael. According to tradition, Abraham lived with one wife in Syria, but the Buraq would transport him in the morning to Mecca to see his famil
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Lucian of Samosata in Syria (2nd century CE) in ''De Dea Syria'' ("Concerning the Syrian Goddess") wrote of the Syrian temples he had visi
...and that is not done to honor Derketo." <ref>Lucian of Samosata, ''De Dea Syria'' Part 2, Chapter 14</ref>
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...axas among the Egyptian gods. Abraxas was also the Persian sun god, and in Syria he was a form of Iao (aspect or name for Yahveh, Yahweh, or Jehovah). It is
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...mply Dragon. A Canaanite poem from Ras Shamra (ancient Ugarit) in northern Syria records a battle between the god Baal and another monster called Leviathan.
...l beast mentioned in Ugaritic literature (of Ugarit, a city-state in North Syria). According to Canaanite myth, the Leviathan was an enemy of order in Crea
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* Feliu, Lluis (2003). ''The God Dagan in Bronze Age Syria'', trans. Wilfred G. E. Watson. Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers. ISBN 90-
* Fleming, D. (1993). "Baal and Dagan in Ancient Syria", ''Zeitschrift für Assyriologie und Vorderasiatische Archäologie'' 83, p
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...Ugaritic and Akkadian name for Mount Amanus, the great mountain separating Syria from Cilicia based on the occurrence of an Ugaritic description of El as th
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...half of 19th century and their numbers dwindled under Ottoman rule both in Syria and Iraq. Massacres at the hand of Ottoman Turks and Muslim Kurdish princes
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===Ancient Syria===
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...the Libyan Desert. He recovered and briefly resumed serving in Greece and Syria but his frequent headaches soon caused him to be relieved of active duty. I
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...he difficulties of interpreting it and the danger for abuse. Christians in Syria also reject it because of the Montanists' heavy reliance on it. In the 9th
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...ough certain secret caverns and fissures, and sorcerers have seen him in [[Syria]] and below the black tower of [[Leng]]; from the Thang Grotto of Tartary h
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