Mōt in the Phoenician History of Philo of Byblos as a Reference to the Late Representation of the Egyptian Goddess Mut as Demiurge
| Autor: | Dufault, Olivier |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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| DOI: | 10.17613/57vj-9q36 |
| Popis: | The article discusses the presence of a generative principle called Mōt in a short cosmogony found in the Phoenician History of Philo of Byblos (c. 100 CE). The Phoenician History's Mōt has been usually understood as the euhemeristic interpretation of a Semitic god of death, which is well documented in late Bronze Age documents from Ugarit. I argue that the name of Mōt was rather inspired by the Egyptian deity Mut as she was conceived from the Ptolemaic period on. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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