lajard's

Updated: July 6, 2026

Lajard's view, that all Babylonian and Assyrian deities were androgynous, hardly needs discussion now. +409+. Of a more definite character are expressions in two Phoenician inscriptions. The word shem means 'name, and, if it be so interpreted as to give the goddess the name of a male divinity, she may be understood to have partly male form.

Crawford Howell Toy - Introduction to the History of Religions: Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV