The Phoenician Oracle Beth - “House”  Oracular meaning: Home, family, belonging, domainPaired with t

The Phoenician Oracle Beth - “House”  Oracular meaning: Home, family, belonging, domainPaired with the sycamore fig tree, a sacred ‘tree of life’ to the Egyptians and a precious fruit tree to the Canaanites.Associated deity: Asherah, queen and mother of the gods, consort of primordial gods El, Anu and/or Yahweh and goddess of the household and of matriarchs (other syncretized deities: Shekhinah)*** Samekh - “Pillar”  Oracular meaning: Support, stability, preservationPaired with the acacia, considered holy by the Egyptians and Israelites, associated with the spine.Associated deity: Adad (Ba’al Hadad), leader of the gods and god of rain, storms, fertility and agriculture (other syncretized deities: Zeus, Amun, Osiris- as death-and-rebirth seasonal/fertile cycle)***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. -- source link

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