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27 Apr 2022, 6:13 pm

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/gaza-strip-farmer-sculpture-ancient-goddess-war-canaanite-rcna26259


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27 Apr 2022, 7:18 pm

Twenty five hundred BC. Shortly after the era of the pyramids in Egypt. And long before the word "Canaan" appeared in either the Old Testament or in Egyptian chronicles. A LONG time ago. The DNA of the folks who sculpted it is probably in the modern people on both sides of the fence around Gaza. Both modern Palestinians, and modern Israeli Jews.



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29 Apr 2022, 5:09 pm

^^^
Very likely true. It might have even been an artifact of a people who had since moved on to somewhere else in the world.


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30 Apr 2022, 11:30 pm

Anat, “the goddess of love, beauty and war” in Canaanite mythology

Interesting to see how the goddess appears in full

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Anat was adopted by the Greeks who called her Athena. The Greek goddess of war was also the goddess of love and beauty.