The Mythology of the Levant

Description

The Mythology of the Levant is a detailed and in-depth scientific study of the Canaanite, Ugaritic, Phoenician, and Punic myths, which the author considers to constitute the mythology of the Levant. For the first time, he presents a comprehensive and sequential pantheon spanning seven generations and strata, enumerating, explaining, and analyzing its symbols in detail, along with their associated myths. He even identifies the archetypes of the Levantine depths, which have been ingrained, through the gods, their myths, and their symbols, in the collective unconscious of the people of the Levant throughout the ages and up to the present day.

The book first addresses the Canaanite and Ugaritic myths, considering them the earliest roots of the mythology of the Levant in the Bronze Age. It then examines the Phoenician myths, exploring their interplay and divergence with their Canaanite roots, in order to elicit their unique character. This includes the rare distinctiveness of Lebanon, Tyre, Sidon, and its other cities, the dominance of the Phoenician name from the beginning of the Iron Age until the end of the Hellenistic period, and their role in the emergence of Greek and Roman mythology. He then examines Punic myths and deities as a new diversity within a unique North African and Mediterranean environment, establishing the connection between all Canaanite roots, Phoenician and Punic intermediaries, and their Christian origins. He proceeds to uncover civilizational, esoteric, and methodological mythologies—new variations on the traditional approach to mythology—which include geographical, historical, cultural, economic, scientific, linguistic, and other mythologies. He also explores the mythologies of mystical secrets, Hermeticism, Gnosticism, the myths of eternal return and its symbols, the myths of space and time among the Levantines, and the myths of waiting, salvation, vision, and mysteries. This book almost constitutes the largest encyclopedia of Canaanite myths, encompassing all their facets and offering precise scientific analysis. It delves into their deepest recesses and tales, weaving them into a single, precious necklace adorning the neck of the ancient Near East. There are countless details that place us at the heart of the entire ancient world through the diverse Levantine mythology, with its historical gradations and its wondrous, varied, and ever-changing alchemy, intertwined with the mythologies of the ancient peoples that abound in the Mediterranean world, which forms the heart of the spiritual and mythical realm.