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Updated: May 17, 2025
To vagrants it was not, and, though the custom interested, it was not adopted by them until their existence from nomad had become fixed. At this latter period they were in Kanaan. Whether in the interval a tribe, the Beni-Israel, went down into Egypt, is a subject on which Continental scholarship has its doubts.
This is a Maya word that means to be tired, to be fatigued; and, if it is spelled Kanaan, it then signifies abundance; both significations applying well to the country. TYRE, the great emporium of the Phœnicians, called Tzur, probably on account of being built on a rock, may also derive its name from the Maya TZUC, a promontory, or a number of villages, Tzucub being a province.
But in Kanaan, during the rude beginnings, though Jahveh was jealous, Ishtar, known locally as Ashtoreth, allured. Conjointly with Baal, the indigenous term for Bel, circumadjacently she ruled. The propitiatory rites of these fair gods were debauchery and infanticide, the loosening of the girdles of girls, the thrusting of children into fires.
To the Semites of Babylonia and Kanaan, the gods alone were immortal, and immortal beings would be gods. Man could not become divine while his deities were still human.
Shem and Ham were brothers." "But Ham was cursed by his father Noah, and Kanaan was Ham's son." "But Noah said, 'Blessed be the Lord God of Shem, and let Kanaan be his servant. Have you heard? Shem received the promise, and we belong to him." "Lord of Hosts, help us; the basket drifts with the wind! It drifts towards the bathing-house, and the vulture up there in the air."
Judaism omitted to incorporate that, but in Kanaan, which Babylonia profoundly influenced, it was general and, though reviled by Israel, was tempting even, and perhaps particularly, to Solomon. The latter's temple was similar to Bel's, from which the Hebraic ritual, terms of the Law, the Torah itself, may have proceeded, as, it may be, the Sabbath did also.
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