Word: carthaginian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Algeria. A group of French diggers directed by the Rev. Father Lapeyre this summer probed the temple of Tanit, on the site of ancient Carthage. Virgin Queen of the moon and heavens. Tanit was the goddess who was elsewhere known as Artemis, Astarte, Ashtoreth, Demeter, Diana. The Carthaginian Tanit was, according to Father Lapeyre's report last week, a lover of child sacrifice. Urns were unearthed containing the charred bones of children as old as 12, as young as a few months. Animal bones found in other receptacles led expedition members to guess that lambs, pigs, kids had been...
Close to the hill where the shrine of St. Louis now stands, ancient Carthaginians had their temple to Moloch, into the fire-blazing pit of whose brazen stomach they dumped children as sacrifices. Julius Caesar planned to rebuild the city. Augustus did so. It grew to have 500,000 population almost as many as before destruction. The Roman massacres of Christians occurred mostly in the 3rd Century A.D. Most famous of the Carthaginian martyr saints were Cyprian, a bishop, and Perpetua, a rich lady who modestly pulled her torn clothes about her sabre-ripped body before she died. The Arabs...