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	Eshmun
		Eshmunit is though to be the temple of Eshmun's consort and the only remaining site dedicated to her.
		Eshmun is 'the Holy Prince', the god of the Phoenician city of Sidon, and a god of vital force, health and healing.
		He was worshipped in Tyre and in the colonies Cyprus, and Carthage, but not in Ugarit.
	www.bterram.com /bterram_004.htm (214 words)

	Lebanon Database About » Eshmun
		Eshmun (or Eshmoun, less accurately Esmun or Esmoun) was a northwestern Semitic god of healing and the tutelary god of Sidon.
		The name Astresmunim, “herb of Eshmun.” was applied by Dioscorides (4.71) to the solanum, which was regarded as having medicinal qualities.
		The temple to Eshmun is found 1 km from Sidon on the Bostrenus River, the modern River Awwali.
	dataleb.com /2006/12/16/eshmun (563 words)

	Eshmun
		Eshmun (or Eshmoun, less accurately Esmun or Esmoun) was a northwestern Semitic god of healing and the tutelary god of Sidon.
		The temple to Eshmun is found 1 km from Sidon on the Bostrenus river, the modern river Awwali.
		Also found near the temple near Sidon was a gold plaque of Eshmun and the goddess Hygeia 'Health' showing Eshmun holding a staff in his right hand around which a serpent is entwined.
	www.xasa.com /wiki/en/wikipedia/e/es/eshmun.html (575 words)

	Phoenician Mythology Tales - InfoHub (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The temple of Eshmun was built at a spring in the mountains.
		But he was considered to have been enthroned with Astarte in the temple of heaven on high (amm rmn) and the temple of the land of the dead ('rs rmn).
		Eshmun was sometimes identified with the Greek character Adonis.
	www.infohub.com /forums/showthread.php?t=2351 (1625 words)

	ipedia.com: Eshmun Article (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Eshmun was a northwestern Semitic god of healing and the tutelary god of Sidon.
		This god was known at least from the Iron Age period at Sidon and was worshipped also in Tyre, Beirut, Cyprus, Sardinia, and in Carthage where the site of Eshmun's temple is now occupied by the chapel of St. Louis.
		It is not clear whether this is a variant version of Eshmun's parentage or whether Apollo might also be equated with Sadyk or whether Sadyk might be equated with Resheph.
	fav.ipedia.com /eshmun.html (630 words)

	Eshmun (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Until recntly, he was an architect and builder in service of a Bushi, his duty to "serve your bushi perfectly".
		After some months of contemplation, Eshmun decided that he should aspire to the same goal as the Shogun.
		He left his Bushi (with a polite note of explanation), boarded ship, and travelled to the new world, to build, not for his Bushi, but for Her alone.
	www.theloom.co.uk /edit.php?page=Eshmun (141 words)

	Eshmun (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Eshmun has sailed in recent months from Kamakura.
		He taught Eshmun of the weaver, and that one should serve only her, and heed no other laws.
		After some months of contemplation, Eshmun decided that he should aspire to the same goal as the Shogun.
	theloom.co.uk /edit.php?page=Eshmun (141 words)

	Bterram Phoenician Sanctuary: Eshmunit home
		Eshmunit is though to be dedication to Eshmun's consort and the only remaining site
		Eshmun is 'the Holy Prince', the god of the Phoenician city of Sidon, and a
		He was worshipped in Tyre and in the colonies Cyprus,
	eshmunit.bterram.com (554 words)

	Eshmun - Definition, explanation
		This god was known at least from the Iron Age period at Sidon and was worshipped also in Tyre, Beirut, Cyprus, Sardinia, and in Carthage where the site of Eshmun's temple is now occupied by the chapel of Louis IX of France.
		Also found near the temple near Sidon was a gold plaque of Eshmun and the goddess Hygeia 'Health' showing Eshmun holding a staff in his right hand around which a serpent is entwined.
		Bterram, a village in Lebanon, possesses a very old underground temple called Eshmunit composed of eight rooms (one big and seven small) all carved in the bedrock and accessible by stairs.
	www.calsky.com /lexikon/en/txt/e/es/eshmun.php (612 words)

	Eshmun Summary
		ESHMUN was a Phoenician healer god, later identified with Asklepios, the patron of medicine, by the Greeks and the Romans.
		Eshmun (or Eshmoun, less accurately Esmun or Esmoun) was a northwestern Semitic god of healing and the tutelary god of Sidon.
		This god was known at least from the Iron Age period at Sidon and was worshipped also in Tyre, Beirut, Cyprus, Sardinia, and in...
	www.bookrags.com /Eshmun (126 words)

	SidonExcavation.org: History (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Other Middle Bronze Age tombs were opened in 1937, 1938 in the foothills ovelooking the city.
		The second source of information on Sidon's past comes from a site called bostan esh-sheikh, three kilometres south-east of the city near the banks of the Awali river where the Temple of Eshmun (god of healing identified with Asclepios) was discovered.
		It was in the ruins of this temple that inscriptions of Bodashtart, king of the sidonians and grandson of Eshmunazar, were found, the contents of which indicate that they were two ancient Sidons.
	www.sidonexcavation.org /sid_hist/sid_hist.html (241 words)

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		Eshmun is the third Phoenician city-god that we will examine who is alleged by many scholars to belong to the category of "Dying and Rising" gods.
		The connection between Osiris and Eshmun exists on the mythic level and is perhaps the least obvious of the three.
		In Greek myth Eshmun is known as Asclepius and, as we will explore later, a strange connection between Asclepius and Giza is given in the Hermetic writings that date to the second and third centuries AD.
	www.redmoonrising.com /Giza/DyingandRising3.htm (6449 words)

	Our males (Site not responding. Last check: )
		His full name is Eshmun van Hayvanat Sevgisi and he is our first male.
		Eshmun runs free in our house and he is the real man in the house.
		He is very sweet, also to the kittens and to new cats in the house.
	home.planet.nl /~nieu3203/our_males.html (245 words)

	Astronoë, the Phoenician Mother of the Gods--Astronoe Astarte Cybele Kybele Eshmun Melqart star goddess heavenly ...
		In the city of Sidon in the Lebanon, Astronoë's consort was Eshmun, a God of Healing, whom the Greeks equated with Asklepios, the divine physician (who is still invoked in the Hippocratic oath taken by doctors).
		According to the Greek version of the legend, Eshmun was a handsome young man who attracted the devotion of the Goddess Astronoë.
		Both Eshmun and Melqart were worshipped in Carthage; the main Goddess of that city was Tanit, who was, like Astronoë, honored with the title "the Heavenly One" as a Goddess of Stars.
	www.thaliatook.com /OGOD/astronoe.html (387 words)

	Eshmun, il dio guaritore fenicio - edo.swisse.ch - Domenica 04.3.2007 - (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Eshmun, il dio guaritore fenicio - edo.swisse.ch - Domenica 04.3.2007 -
		Gli archeologi dell'Istituto di studi sulle civiltà italiche e del Mediterraneo antico del Cnr hanno fatto nuova luce sui riti praticati nel monumentale santuario libanese dedicato ad Eshmun, divinità mutuata dalle culture greca e romana con i nomi di Asclepio ed Esculapio.
		“A Sidone esisteva il santuario dedicato ad Eshmun” spiega Paolo Xella dell'Iscima—Cnr “che fu sede di culti terapeutici rivolti particolarmente alla cura delle malattie, alla protezione della maternità e alla salvaguardia dei bambini.
	www.ecplanet.com /print.php?id=14105&madre=1 (566 words)

	Eshmun (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Eshmun has sailed in recent months from Kamakura.
		He taught Eshmun of the weaver, and that one should serve only her, and heed no other laws.
		This page was last modified on Fri 28th July 2006 See a printable version.
	www.theloom.co.uk /?page=Eshmun (118 words)

	Babel \| Phoenician Mythology - Eshmun and Astarte
		The temple of Eshmun was built at a spring in the mountains, but he was also considered to have been enthroned with Astarte in the temple of heaven on high (smm rmn) and the temple of the land of the dead ('rs rspm).
		The rites of Astarte and Eshmun were observed in many places, including Phoenician colonies throughout the Mediterranean.
		The deity Eshmun was sometimes identified with the Greek character named Adonis.
	towerofbabel.com /map/articles/04/03/10/239218.shtml?tid=272&tid=273 (299 words)

	Eshmun - meaning of word
		Eshmun (or Eshmoun, less accurately Esmun or Esmoun) was a northwestern Semitic languages god of healing and the tutelary god of Sidon.
		According to Sanchuniathon, Zadok 'Just', first fathered seven sons equated with the Greek Cabeiri or Dioscuri, no mother named, and then afterwards fathered an eighth son by one of the seven Titanides or Artemides.
		Pausanias (geographer) (7.23.7–8) quotes a Sidonian as saying that the Phoenicians claim Apollo as the father of Asclepius, as do the Greeks, but unlike them do not make his mother a mortal woman.
	www.wordsonline.org /Eshmun (624 words)

	Phoenician mythology, Who is Eshmun?
		Melqart was also known as Eshmun by the Sidonians.
		The Greeks equated Melqart with Heracles who was held to be the mythical founder of the Macedonian dynasty.
		He was known as Baal- Adon- Eshmun- Melqart and also as Thasian Heracles because he was worshipped on the island of Thasos.
	eshmun.sourceforge.net /mytoeshmun.php (306 words)

	Eshmun Details, Meaning Eshmun Article and Explanation Guide
		This god was known at least from the Iron Age period at Sidon and was worshipped also in Tyre, Beirut, Cyprus, Sardinia, and in Carthage where the site of Eshmun's temple is now occupied by the chapel of St. Louis.
		The name Eshmun indeed seems to mean 'the Eighth'.
		It is not clear whether this is a variant version of Eshmun's parentage or whether Apollo might also be equated with Sadyk or whether Sadyk might be equated with Resheph.
	www.e-paranoids.com /e/es/eshmun.html (586 words)

	Denver Journal - 7:0106 - The Riddle of the Resurrection: "Dying and Rising Gods" in the Ancient Near East
		All connect their death and resurrection with the seasons and mark annual celebrations around July.
		He notes that the origins of the name Eshmun in "oil" and his association Asklepios all suggest an integral connection with healing.
		However, it is nowhere clear, before a fifth century A.D. witness, that Eshmun should be identified as a dying and rising god.
	www.denverseminary.edu /dj/articles2004/0100/0106 (1082 words)

	Phoenician Religion -- Pagan
		The Greeks equated Melqart with Heracles who was held to be the mythical founder of the Macedonian dynasty.
		He was known as Baal- Adon- Eshmun- Melqart and also as Thasian Heracles because he was worshipped on the island of Thasos.
		The remains of the Temple of Eshmun (Sidon's Melqart) have been found in Sidon.
	www.phoenicia.org /pagan.html (11493 words)

	Astarte - Free Encyclopedia of Thelema
		In Sidon she shared a temple with Eshmun.
		At Beirut coins show Poseidon, Astarte, and Eshmun worshipped together.
		Other cult centers were Cytherea, Malta, and Eryx in Sicily from which she became known to the Romans as Venus Erycina.
	www.egnu.org /thelema/Astarte (943 words)

	Serpent Symbols and Salvation in the Ancient Near East and the Book of Mormon - Maxwell Institute JBMS
		Ultimately, chaos is subdued as Tiamat is killed by Marduk, the champion deity, and her body is cast out of the presence of the gods, half to form the earth's seas and the other half to form the sky.
		The influence of Eshmun seems to have been felt over a long period of time and a wide geographical region.
		It seems that such beneficent deities of early civilizations, which were represented by the image of the serpent centuries or even millennia before Jesus appeared on the scene, bear uncanny resemblances to him.
	farms.byu.edu /display.php?table=jbms&id=254 (7312 words)

	[ JewishHistory.com ]
		Similar to those north of the "straight joint," stones with rough bosses and margins on four sides are evident at Byblos (top) and in the platform on which the temple to Eshmun stood near Sidon (bottom).
		This explains why they used their own resources to build a temple to the goddess of Byblos and a temple to Eshmun in Sidon and similarly in the case of the temple to Yahweh in Jerusalem.
		This he very convincingly demonstrated to me in a visit to the great Temple of the Eshmun, near Sidon, dated to the late sixth–early fifth century B.C., and to the rather later structures of the Persian period at Byblos.
	www.jewishhistory.com /jh.php?id=Persian&content=content/king_solomon8 (508 words)

	City Coinage of Sidon and Tyre
		The murex shell appears as a symbol on the earliest coins of Tyre, but doesn't appear again until Imperial Roman times, when it is an almost constant emblem.
		Sidon's chief deity was Eshmun, who was assimilated with the Greeks with Asklepios, as he also presided over health and healing.
		Bes is a nature deity known from Egyptian folk religion who may have been equated with Eshmun at Sidon.
	www.ancientworlds.net /aw/Post/32991 (951 words)

	Green Man
		Lopped trees called asherim sacred to her were set up in Semitic sanctuaries and they even stood in the Temple of Jerusalem—so powerful was this goddess—until the reforms of Josiah in 615 BC.
		…Lebanon in the goddess Astarte and her lover Eshmun, a vegetation god of the region of Byblos.
		For the Greek and Roman worlds Astarte became Aphrodite and Eshmun was known as Adonis…
	phoenixandturtle.net /excerptmill/anderson.htm (3945 words)

	Gallery
		Eshmun Kerala - PER n 22 Vive a Padova
		Eshmun Ismahel - PER d 24 Vive a Cosenza
		Eshmun Laksha - PER a 24 Vive a Verona
	www.eshmuncattery.com /gallery.htm (35 words)

	Glossary
		His mummified body in it revealed him to be a strong man, 5 feet 5 inches tall, with wavy reddish-brown hair tinted with henna.
		The sarcophagus of his son, King Eshmunazar II, possessed a Phoenician inscription of twenty-two lines from which we learn that he built several temples for Astarte at Sidon and for Eshmun at a mountain spring and that Sidon was given possession of Dor and Joppa south of Tyre.
		The sanctuary of Eshmun on a hillside a few miles away at the river Nahr el-Awali has been excavated by M. Dunand and others, revealing important buildings, inscriptions, and statuary of the Babylonian, Persian, and Hellenistic periods dedicated to Eshmun.
	www.bibletexts.com /glossary/tyre&sidon.htm (1008 words)

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