>>14271702 PB Who is Tanit in pic from Anderson Cooper's childhood
Tanit is considered a Sky Goddess who ruled over the celestial beings, along with Baal Hammon. In fact, she is considered a consort to the high god and was referred to as the face of Baal. Many inscriptions and artefacts relating to Tanit have been found in North Africa.
The following of Hammon, and Tanit in extension was large. Tanit was worshipped as a goddess of war, a symbol of fertility, a nurse and a mother goddess. This shows that she had many roles. She had a strong presence in the daily life of her worshippers and was invoked for matters relating to fertility and childbirth.
The fact that Tanit is a goddess people look for when they want the grace of fertility comes with no little irony, especially in light of what was unearthed in Carthage, the epicenter of Baal’s and Tanit’s worship.
No less than 20,000 remains of infants and children were found in a burial site that is said to have been dedicated to Tanit. Inscripted on the walls of the burial site were passages that seemed to suggest that the children were charred and killed as an offering to Tanit and her consort:
As one of the most important deities revered by the Carthaginian people, Tanit was given her own abstract symbol in the form of a trapezium or a triangle with a circle above it, a long horizontal line with crescent shapes on each end, and a horizontal bar at the tip of the triangle. The symbol looks like a woman with arms raised.
The tanit symbol is believed to be a symbol of fertility. Some scholars insist that it pertains to the child sacrifice done to all firstborn children of those who worship the fertility goddess and her consort.
https://symbolsage.com/tanit-goddess-meaning-symbolism/
Does look like one of the Anderson Cooper childhood pics. Interesting that his (older) brother died (allegedly suicide) at 23…
https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/24/us/anderson-cooper-brother-suicide/index.html