Talk:Ancient Semitic religion
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[edit] Typo in Second Paragraph?
There appears to be something missing in the phrase "a name of god Judaism and cognate to Islam's Allah."
- Fixed. But next time, fix it yourself. It's a wiki after all. Anyone can edit it (Encyclopædia Dramatica is an exeption). ~ 06:37, 20 May 2006 (UTC)
[edit] move
per Category:Ancient Semitic religions, should we move this to Ancient Semitic religion, extending the article's scope? dab (ᛏ) 18:40, 11 October 2006 (UTC)
[edit] hey
change the name of this article to "Semitic deities" instead --anon
[edit] Apparent nonsense (Problem etymology)
How can Asherah be related to `Ashtoreth and Ishtar when one begins with original aleph (glottal stop) and the other begins with original `ayin (a voiced pharyngeal)?? AnonMoos 00:12, 17 February 2007 (UTC)
- It is not my fault, I know the diference between aleph and ayn. I did it right, but a lot of people always mix it up and I am not interessted to change it all the time. This is a typical problem of Wikipedia. al-Qamar, 14. March 2007 —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 130.60.165.18 (talk) 10:43, 14 March 2007 (UTC).
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- So, I signed in and changed the nonsense. But I am wondering why you AnonMoos did not change this. --Al-Qamar 16:38, 11 April 2007 (UTC)
[edit] cut from article
I removed the following as offtopic (belongs on Canaan):
The Levant region was inhabited by people who themselves referred to the land as 'ca-na-na-um' as early as the mid-third millenium BCE[1]. There are a number of possible etymologies for the word. Some suggest the name comes from Hebrew "cana'ani" word meant merchant, for which, as Phoenicians the Canaanites became justly famous. The Akkadian word "kinahhu", however, referred to the red-colored wool, dyed from the Murex molluscs of the coast, which was throughout history a key export of the region. When the Greeks later traded with the Canaanites, this meaning of the word seems to have predominated as they called the Canaanites the Phoenikes or "Phoenicians", which may derive from the Greek word "Phoenix" meaning crimson or purple, and again described the cloth for which the Greeks also traded. The Romans transcribed "phoenix" to "poenus", thus calling the descendants of the Canaanite settlers in Carthage "Punic". Thus while Phoenician and Canaanite refer to the same culture, archaeologists and historians commonly refer to the Bronze Age, pre-1200 BCE Levantines as Canaanites and their Iron Age descendants, particularly those living on the coast as Phoenicians. More recently, the term Canaanite has been used for the secondary Iron Age states of the interior, that were not ruled by Aramaean peoples, a separate and closely related ethnic group, a group which included the Philistines and the states of Israel and Judah [2].
--dab (𒁳) 12:02, 22 August 2007 (UTC)
[edit] "Pantheon" section heading
This might be understood as implying that all the gods and goddesses on the list were worshipped together at some time or place -- which would seem to be rather unlikely... AnonMoos 13:30, 22 August 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Ugarit - In Syria, not Canaan
To clarify, one should not refer to Ugarit as being in Canaan, as this is technically not so - rather Ras Shamra is located in Northern Syria. --129.67.116.34 12:05, 14 October 2007 (UTC)
