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Baal Hammon, properly Baʿal Hammon or Hamon (Punic: '),〔Дьяконов И. М. Языки древней Передней Азии. Издательство Наука, Москва. 1967.〕 was the chief god of Carthage. He was a weather god considered responsible for the fertility of vegetation and esteemed as King of the Gods. He was depicted as a bearded older man with curling ram's horns.〔Brouillet, Monique Seefried, ed. From Hannibal to Saint Augustine: Ancient Art of North Africa from the Musee du Louvre. Michael C. Carlos Museum, Emory University: Atlanta GA, 1994.〕 Baʿal Hammon's female cult partner was Tanit.〔Carthage, a history, Serge Lancel, p195〕 ==Cult and attributes== The worship of Baʿal Hammon flourished in the Phoenician colony of Carthage. His supremacy among the Carthaginian gods is believed to date to the 5th century BC, after relations between Carthage and Tyre were broken off at the time of the Punic defeat in Himera.〔Moscati, Sabatino (2001). ''The Phoenicians''. Tauris, p. 132. ISBN 1-85043-533-2〕 Modern scholars identify him variously with the Northwest Semitic god El or with Dagon. In Carthage and North Africa Baʿal Hammon was especially associated with the ram and was worshiped also as Baʿal Qarnaim ("Lord of Two Horns") in an open-air sanctuary at Jebel Boukornine ("the two-horned hill") across the bay from Carthage, in Tunisia. He was probably never identified with Baʿal Melqart, although one finds this equation in older scholarship. Ancient Greek writers identified him with the Titan Cronus. In ancient Rome, he was identified with Saturn, and the cultural exchange between Rome and Carthage as a result of the Second Punic War may have influenced the development of the Roman religious festival Saturnalia.〔Robert E.A. Palmer, ''Rome and Carthage at Peace'' (Franz Steiner, 1997), pp. 63–64.〕 Greco-Roman sources report that the Carthaginians burned their children as offerings to Baʿal Hammon. (See "Moloch" for a discussion of these traditions and conflicting thoughts on the matter.) Attributes of his Romanized form as an African Saturn indicate that Hammon was a fertility god.〔Carthage, a history, Serge Lancel, p197〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Baal Hammon」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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