Tanit was a
Phoenician lunar
goddess, worshiped as the
patron goddess at
Carthage. Tanit and Baal Hammon were worshiped in Punic contexts in the Western Mediterranean, from
Malta to
Gades into Hellenistic times. In North Africa, where the inscriptions and material remains are more plentiful, she was also a heavenly goddess of war, a virginal mother goddess and nurse, a consort of
Baal Hammon and, less specifically, a symbol of fertility. Several of the major Greek goddesses were identified with Tanit by the syncretic
interpretatio graeca, which recognized as Greek deities in foreign guise the gods of most of the surrounding non-Hellene cultures.
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