Melqart
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Sep 22, 2026
JimmyHOST
He even dated the mortal one, placing him about 900 years before his own day, which works out to somewhere in the 1300s BC.
JimmyHOST
What he'd seen at Tyre was almost certainly the temple of Melkart, the city's own god, whom Greeks had decided was Heracles under another name.
JimmyHOST
Later writers kept splitting and in one of Cicero's works, he claimed that there were eight versions of Heracles or Hercules as the Romans would have said.
JimmyHOST
Under his view, Hercules traveled around, and because he was so widely traveled, everyone who had come into contact with him had established their own legends about him.
William BleschGUEST
A human can be an angel.
Jon PoundersHOST
Like Melkart and all these different variations of the MLK-type names, you know, that-
William BleschGUEST
Pretty much
Jon PoundersHOST
... end up, yeah.
Nathaniel LloydHOST
Certainly, their civilization was beyond the Strait of Gibraltar, but some theorists have even tried to move the pillars to make this theory fit even better.
Nathaniel LloydHOST
Just as Strabo said that some people thought the twin phantom islands near Gibraltar were the pillars, he also said that some others thought the pillars of Heracles actually referred to a pair of literal pillars inside a temple at Cadiz, dedicated to the Phoenician god Melkart, who was identified with Heracles and Hercules by Greeks and Romans.
Nathaniel LloydHOST
But regardless, the Doniana marshlands and the lost civilization of Tartessos certainly does fit the bill in being beyond the pillars by either interpretation and being now an impassable muddy shoal or shallows.
Nathaniel LloydHOST
This theory culminated in two prominent documentaries in recent years, both from National Geographic.
Elsie SelwynNARRATOR
The epithet was used among the Oannonites and the name Melchizedek, a similar form to Adonizedek, Abimelech, Ahimelech.
Elsie SelwynNARRATOR
It was in current use among the Phoenicians in reference to the god of Tyre, Melekarta or Melqart, and in many proper names, such as Melekiothon, Baal Melek, Bode Melek, etc., not to mention the god Melicus worshiped in Spain, who was really none other than Melqart.
Elsie SelwynNARRATOR
End footnote.
Elsie SelwynNARRATOR
Bashuv represented the lightning and the thunderbolt.
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Elsie SelwynNARRATOR
The latter divinity was probably the representative of the legendary Samamrum, who had built his village on the coast, while Usus had founded his on the ocean.
Elsie SelwynNARRATOR
He was the Baal Samim of starry tunic, lord of heaven and king of sun.
Elsie SelwynNARRATOR
As was customary, a popular Astarte was associated with these deities of higher degree, and tradition asserted that Melqarth purchased her favor by the gift of the first robe of Tyrian purple which was ever dyed.
Elsie SelwynNARRATOR
Priestesses of the goddess had dwellings in all parts of the plain, and in several places the caves are still pointed out where they entertained the devotees of the goddess.