The Phoenician Oracle (yep, here we are!) Nūn- “Serpent” Oracular meaning: Upheaval, the unexpected
The Phoenician Oracle (yep, here we are!) Nūn- “Serpent” Oracular meaning: Upheaval, the unexpected, chaos, dangerPaired with flowers of coriander for its warming and stimulating propertiesAssociated deity: Yamm, god of the sea, the abyss and chaos, whose cyclical battle for supremacy over Ba’al Adad, the god or rain and renewal, causes the seasons (other syncretized deities: Apep, Typhon, Tiamat)***The Phoenician alphabet was the very first alphabet (set of glyphs representing individual sounds), drawn from Egyptian hieroglyphs and evolving into the Aramaic, Hebrew, Arabic, Greek, Coptic and Runic alphabets. Each letter represents a sound as well as an object or element central to Phoenician life.Like its alphabet, Phoenician culture, art and religion spread from Mesopotamia throughout the Mediterranean, infused with Sumerian, Babylonian, Egyptian and Greek symbolism and traditions. -- source link
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