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Finally, a Bonus theme: A Sebetti queen, but which one?
This ivory plaque is very notable. It was found in Ugarit and is now in the Museum of Damascus. On it, we can clearly see a winged female deity. She is horned and between her horns there is a spark. Her hairdo is identical to that of Hathor. She is nursing 2 people whom are wearing Ancient Egyptian style of clothing. It is interpreted that this is Athirat or Asherah…another mutated form, aspect of the Evil Lady.
On one hand, we’ve seen this iconography when we were taking a look at Lamashtu (starting page 958) from Mesopotamia, with the bronze Plaque of the Hells (starting page 961). Here, we are certain it’s the Evil Lady depicted on that bronze plaque. On the other hand, we’ve also seen a similar iconography while taking a look at Neith (starting page 1 019) were we have many artifacts depicting her nursing 2 crocodiles, as seen in the third picture I’m attaching with this page.
So which one is it? We have 2 Sebetti queens with similar, almost identical iconography, so which one is it we have on this ivory plaque from Ugarit? What if it was actually both = both Sebetti queens merged because the younger generation misunderstood that we have 2 queens and not one?
My thinking: Neith when she came to face the Evil Lady and stayed in Gebal/Byblos for a while to do so, her cult spread in the entire Levant region where there were Phoenician City-States because they recognized her for whom she really was = the Queen of queens and the mother of the Crown Prince. Family has always been important for the Sebetti Clans.
But this was thousands of years ago. I’m suspecting this goes back to something around 10 000 B.C. if not more. After the Evil Lady was repelled, her cult started to trickle in slowly into the Phoenician territory = if not invasion then infiltration. In the Phoenician City-States where the cult of Neith was already in place for thousands of years, the younger generation suddenly saw a Sebetti queen cult slowly migrating into their city. They thought there was one Sebetti queen, misunderstanding there were actually two of them and one was the enemy of the other. Maybe the traveling priests of the Evil Lady devised this plan on purpose to confuse the younger Phoenicians into believing it’s the same queen they are all worshiping. Done on purpose to slowly infiltrate the cult of Neith and twist it into the cult of the Evil Lady. We’ve already seen the confusion between the cult of the King of kings and the Evil One. Here, it’s the same situation. And slowly the iconography of both Sebetti queens merged and one confusion started to build on top of another confusion. This is how I see the cult of the Evil Lady infiltrating Phoenicia and replacing slowly the cult of Neith = to a point that the much younger generation thought that Astarte was the mother of Baal = the Crown Prince, instead of Neith being that. I hope I explained this well for anons because I know how complicated and hard this is.
And this is how we got this iconography on an ivory plaque from Ugarit, with a mix of the Evil Lady and Ancient Egyptian clothing and hair do. The new cult of the Evil Lady superposed itself on the cult of Neith = calqued it = merging the characteristics and aspects of the 2 deities because the younger generation confused them, thinking they are one person, not 2.