{"id":52,"date":"2007-03-31T12:50:03","date_gmt":"2007-03-31T16:50:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blogx\/?p=174"},"modified":"2009-08-24T17:42:45","modified_gmt":"2009-08-24T21:42:45","slug":"magical-buffet-mythology-tanit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/?p=52","title":{"rendered":"Magical Buffet Mythology: Tanit"},"content":{"rendered":"

Article by Rebecca
\nImage by Will Hobbs (www.sirwilliamwesley.com<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Tanit is the great Phoencian goddess of Carthage, consort of Ba’al-Hammon. As a deity, Tanit embodies all things traditionally associated with the feminine. She is considered a lunar goddess, as well as motherhood and fertility. Tanit watched over the city of Carthage, and the people there built numerous temples in her honor.<\/p>\n

Many say the circle represents a baby. Historians have been debating about whether the citizens of Carthage sacrificed babies for a very long time and I am absolutely not going to be able to answer that question for you\u2026. Oh, you\u2019re still reading? Good for you! Here\u2019s the deal, when they excavated the burial grounds of Carthage they found hundreds of urns, many of these urns were inscribed to Tanit or Ba\u2019al (the hubby, remember?) and contained the remains of infants. Obviously there are arguments for both points of view; some point out that young lambs received the same burial treatment as the infants, that older children and adults were buried in a separate place, of course they also mention that many cultures buried children separate from adults. The list of yes they dids and no they didn\u2019ts goes on and on. You know what I have to say to all this?<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t care. You heard me, I don\u2019t care! I\u2019m not saying that I\u2019m pro baby sacrifice, what I\u2019m saying is that it\u2019s not happening now, so why let it be an issue when contemplating Tanit? The true horror of Tanit isn\u2019t the potential of infants being sacrificed to her, it\u2019s the fact that it\u2019s hard to find anything besides that about her! Here is Tanit, THE goddess of Carthage, and I can\u2019t learn anything about her because everyone wants to talk baby slaughter. Even if people did sacrifice children to her, I\u2019m sure there\u2019s more to her than that. Hopefully one day I\u2019ll get to learn what it was about this goddess that inspired the love of all of Carthage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"