Tracing the Canaanites to North America - Baal Worship Part Two

Runes of the Phoenician town of Tharros in Sardinia 

South of Corsica in the Mediterranean Sea, sits the small island of Sardinia.  In ancient Greece, it was called the land of the giants. Massive stone towers called nuraghe and cyclopian architecture dot the land. Ancient megalithic tombs built in an antediluvian style which sit over the reported burials of the giants, can be seen throughout Sardinia.  It is also possible that after the flood, that some of the Canaanites fleeing genocide landed in Sardinia.  It is known that Phoenicians founded several strongholds and cities on strategic points in the southern and western areas. They also brought their influence with them as seen by the pagan practices and Baal worship. There are many artifacts that are half man, half bull. Bullheads are found all over in their architecture and also depictions of Tanit, Baal's consort.  Depictions of Tanit have been found in Sardinia, Spain, west of Carthage on the North African coast, Bosnia, the Valley of the Kings in Egypt, and South Africa. I'm sure this is not an all conclusive list.

Tanit in Sardinia

She is usually depicted as having a triangular skirt, a round head, sometimes with a moon symbol over her head, and a horizontal line symbolizing a mother goddess with her out stretched arms.  But as in Part One, we know that Tanit was not very motherly with the numerous accounts of child sacrifice to her and her mate. Interestingly enough, we find a sacrificial table on top of the one of the oldest ziggurats in the world called Monte d'Accoddi. 

Monte d'Accoddi

Located on the Maghreb coast at the western entrance to the Strait of Gibraltar, sits a major city in Morocco.  Tangier, or Tingis, as it was once called, was founded in the early 5th century B.C. by Carthaginian (Phoenician) colonists.  It later became part of the Roman Empire.  The Greeks believed that it was actually established by a giant, Antaios, whose tomb and skeleton are in the vicinity.  A Roman commander Quintus Sertorius was told by the residents of Tingis that the gigantic remains could be found within a certain tumulus.  Upon digging it open, he was so shocked that he immediately covered it back up.  Giant remains 60 cubits (90 feet) long were said to be found.  Also, interestingly, the cave of Hercules, is only a few kilometers from the city, and is a major tourist attraction.  One of the most telling clues to the Canaanites fleeing to distant lands used to stand near a great fountain in Tangier. Two columns of white stone once stood with a Phoenician inscription "We are the Canaanites who fled before the face of Joshua, the robber, the son of nun."

Entrance to the Phoenician Necropolis at Tangier

Judges 3:7 New Living Translation (NLT)

7 The Israelites did evil in the Lord’s sight. They forgot about the Lord their God, and they served the images of Baal and the Asherah poles.

As the Phoenicians spread further out from the Mediterranean Sea, they continued to bring their culture and "gods" with them.  This is best seen in the British Isles. The Phoenicians are said to have migrated to the British Isles in search of tin to mix with copper for use in weapon making, other tools, and also possibly armor. Mixing tin with copper was used to make bronze which is much harder than copper alone. In years past and also recently, copper coins have been found in Britain dating back to the time of the Phoenicians.  This coin dates back to 2,300 years ago and on one side shows the image of the chief goddess "Tanit" on one side.

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It is also clear to see that the worship pattern of the Druids and ancient Celts are very similar to those found in Canaan.  As the Phoenicians continued to move east Baal became Bel.  Beli, Beltis, Belinus was a Celtic sun god whose symbol was that of a bull and he was synonymous with the Gaulish Cernunnos, who was worshipped also in conjunction with a female deity.  Sound familiar?  Cernunnos was the Celtic god of fertility, life, animals, wealth, and the underworld.  

The ancient Irish had a tradition to sacrifice their first-born children and of their flocks to secure power and peace to Beltis or Beli.  The ancient Druids burned their victims in osier-cages shaped like men and set up idols to their "gods".

Beltane Festival

The Beltane or Beltein festival was started by the ancient Druids. May 1st is considered the second most important pagan holiday still to this day.  The word Beltane means 'Bel-fire', the fire of the Celtic god of light (Bel).  Huge bonfires were lit to be used for human sacrifice, and leaping through the fire was thought to promote the growth of crops as the Celts would leap as high as possible.  A huge tree was cut down with the branches removed and used as a phallic symbol for fertility by the pagans.  During the celebration, the pole was often decorated and danced around with the females carrying baskets symbolizing the female aspect of the sexual organs.  The May Pole, or Ashtoreth pole, is the same pole used by the Canaanites that God specifically says to tear down and destroy.

Exodus 34:13 Instead, you must break down their pagan altars, smash their sacred pillars, and cut down their Asherah poles.

1 Kings 14:15 Then the Lord will shake Israel like a reed whipped about in a stream. He will uproot the people of Israel from this good land that he gave their ancestors and will scatter them beyond the Euphrates River, for they have angered the Lord with the Asherah poles they have set up for worship.

1 Kings 14:23 For they also built for themselves pagan shrines and set up sacred pillars and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every green tree.

Although the name of Baal is changing, there is no doubt in my mind that this is the same deity and the same type of pagan worship that was practiced by the Canaanites at the time of Joshua.  In part three, I will continue to trace the Canaanites to North America and discuss many artifacts and petroglyphs that have been found proving the existence of Baal worship and Phoenician influence in our ancient history, which unfortunately is still alive and well today in our culture and most don't even know it.

TO BE CONT......

Tracing the Canaanites to North America - Baal Worship Part One

 Researchers like L.A. Marzulli, Fritz Zimmerman, Steve Quayle, & Tom Horn among others believe that during the conquest of Canaan by the Israelites, the Canaanites fled to other parts of the world.

Fritz Zimmerman believes that the Ammorites (Phoenicians) came to the Ohio River Valley and are responsible for the great earthworks in that region and mined the Great Lakes region for copper.  I believe that not only did they stay in the Ohio River Valley but migrated further south into the Mississippian region as evidenced by all the ancient mound sites and historical evidence of giant remains.  Many news articles from the 1800's and early 1900's report many cases of giant bones found in or near mound sites.  

But what other evidence of their supposed existence and influence in North America do we have?  The bones of the giants are no longer available for study thanks to the Smithsonian cover up.  The Smithsonian sent in their own teams for archaeological study and recovery of artifacts.  After John Wesley Powell declared that the mounds were built by indigenous peoples and nothing more, mainstream archaeology has stopped looking for other possible answers.  With the addition of the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) passed in 1990, any chance to study the remains of the mound builders (if remains were available) has long past because of the bureaucratic red tape.

So getting back to my original question...what evidence do we have?
Baal Worship.  Where ever the Canaanites went, their "gods" traveled with them.  I believe that some of the Canaanite giants fled to North America bringing their culture and belief system with them.  Native American legends tell of the "red haired giants" that were evil and cannibalistic inhabiting many places in North America before the natives.  

History:
The Phoenicians were the descendants of the Canaanites that were condemned to destruction by God during the conquest of Canaan. They lived in the cities of Tyre and Sidon in northern Canaan near the coast of the Mediterranean Sea (now modern Lebanon and part of Syria), which interestingly is not far from Mount Hermon, where the Book of Enoch tells us that the Watchers came down from heaven.  The Phoenicians were skilled in seamanship and had vast trade routes all long the Mediterranean Sea and even extended into Brittany and the British Isles.  Evidence that they arrived in Brazil about 550 B.C. is found on an inscribed stone in old Canaanite letters.  They established Carthage on the North African coast in 814 B.C., and after the city fell, fled to another colony located in Iberia (Spain).

They were also skilled masons.  It was the Phoenicians that helped Solomon build his temple.  It is also believed that they built the Temple to Baal in Baalbek, Lebanon.  Baalbek contains some of the largest stone pillars and blocks in the world.  Another temple located near Satifah, Syria is said to have blocks up to five meters long.  How were normal size men able to move these massive stones and timber?  

The Ammorites were believed to be giants as found in these scriptures:
Amos 2:9-10 New Living Translation (NLT)

9 “But as my people watched,
    I destroyed the Amorites,
though they were as tall as cedars
    and as strong as oaks.
I destroyed the fruit on their branches
    and dug out their roots.
10 It was I who rescued you from Egypt
    and led you through the desert for forty years,
    so you could possess the land of the Amorites.

Numbers 13:31-33

31 But the other men who had explored the land with him disagreed. “We can’t go up against them! They are stronger than we are!” 32 So they spread this bad report about the land among the Israelites: “The land we traveled through and explored will devour anyone who goes to live there. All the people we saw were huge. 33 We even saw giants[b] there, the descendants of Anak. Next to them we felt like grasshoppers, and that’s what they thought, too!”

A group of Russian scientists discovered a giant's graveyard near Aleppo, Syria, and reported a 7.5 meter skeleton buried there, which would be 24.61 feet in our measurements here in the U.S. Also, at Suq Wadi Barada on the outskirts of Damascus the Tomb Abel (son of Adam) is almost nine meters long and says to contain giant bones.  Not surprisingly, this is not far from the legendary Baalbek. 

It was the Phoenicians that were the first to discover purple dye and use it as a sign of royalty or high office.  They also established a form of writing called "Punic". So we know that these people were not mere savages but an advanced civilization.  We can also see God's judgement against the city of Tyre in Isaiah 23.

Isaiah 23 New Living Translation (NLT)

A Message about Tyre
23 This message came to me concerning Tyre:

Wail, you trading ships of Tarshish,
    for the harbor and houses of Tyre are gone!
The rumors you heard in Cyprus[a]
    are all true.
2 Mourn in silence, you people of the coast
    and you merchants of Sidon.
Your traders crossed the sea,[b]
3     sailing over deep waters.
They brought you grain from Egypt[c]
    and harvests from along the Nile.
You were the marketplace of the world.
4 But now you are put to shame, city of Sidon,
    for Tyre, the fortress of the sea, says,[d]
“Now I am childless;
    I have no sons or daughters.”
5 When Egypt hears the news about Tyre,
    there will be great sorrow.
6 Send word now to Tarshish!
    Wail, you people who live in distant lands!
7 Is this silent ruin all that is left of your once joyous city?
    What a long history was yours!
    Think of all the colonists you sent to distant places.
8 Who has brought this disaster on Tyre,
    that great creator of kingdoms?
Her traders were all princes,
    her merchants were nobles.
9 The Lord of Heaven’s Armies has done it
    to destroy your pride
    and bring low all earth’s nobility.
10 Come, people of Tarshish,
    sweep over the land like the flooding Nile,
    for Tyre is defenseless.[e]
11 The Lord held out his hand over the sea
    and shook the kingdoms of the earth.
He has spoken out against Phoenicia,[f]
    ordering that her fortresses be destroyed.
12 He says, “Never again will you rejoice,
    O daughter of Sidon, for you have been crushed.
Even if you flee to Cyprus,
    you will find no rest.”
13 Look at the land of Babylonia[g]—
    the people of that land are gone!
The Assyrians have handed Babylon over
    to the wild animals of the desert.
They have built siege ramps against its walls,
    torn down its palaces,
    and turned it to a heap of rubble.
14 Wail, you ships of Tarshish,
    for your harbor is destroyed!
15 For seventy years, the length of a king’s life, Tyre will be forgotten. But then the city will come back to life as in the song about the prostitute:

16 Take a harp and walk the streets,
    you forgotten harlot.
Make sweet melody and sing your songs
    so you will be remembered again.
17 Yes, after seventy years the Lord will revive Tyre. But she will be no different than she was before. She will again be a prostitute to all kingdoms around the world. 18 But in the end her profits will be given to the Lord. Her wealth will not be hoarded but will provide good food and fine clothing for the Lord’s priests.

So what about Baal worship?
Baal  itself was a title meaning "lord" in the languages spoken in the Levant.  Later it was applied to the Canaanite "gods". Baal was associated with fertility, wind, rain, and power of lightning, and was depicted as a sun god. He was regarded by the Phoenicians as the patron of sailors and sea-going merchants and also regarded as leader of the Rephaim, the ancestral spirits, particularly those of ruling dynasties.  The worship of Baal spread throughout the Mediterranean by the Phoenician colonies.  This is also the deity that the Israelites worshipped went they went astray many times in the Old Testament.  

Ba'al Hammon was worshipped in Carthage as their supreme god. It was he along with his consort Ashtarte or Tanit (moon goddess) that the Canaanites sacrificed their children too.  With their throats slit, babies and children were placed on a downward alter to roll into the outstretched arms of Baal into the fiery furnace below. Archaeologists excavating areas in Canaan found a large number of jars that contained the remains of children who had been sacrificed to Baal.  Sexual immorality, child sacrifice, false god worship, and other wicked acts too grisly to imagine were widespread throughout the land of Canaan.

TO BE CONT...........