>>15316493>muh carthageAnd here we come to the greatest boogeyman of the iron age. Hated by kikes out of jealousity, hated by romans because such a tiny city is a rivalry threat to the whole Roman proto-empire, feared by Greeks despite being admired at the same time (as they literally copied the Carthage model of government).
All we know about Carthage is from their enemies, because the city was glassed, the libraries were all burned and the ground salted by the tears of romans after mentioning the Hannibal, then city was rebuilt from ground up by Romans where nothing of ruins even survived to this day.
As we already pointed out, there is
zero proofs and references to child sacrifice in actual North Levant where the most prominent and historical cities of phoenicians exist, so why a motherly nation that supposedly created literal New City has zero case of child sacrifice sites nor tophets if their culture is identical and they are identical people?
First, they already claimed independence from Tyr as their motherly nation, and by the time Alexander empire already collapsed between their generals, the Romans already practiced the Saturn veneration festivals that influenced the Carthage and Baal Hammon became a syncretic deity between Jupiter and Saturn, as opposed to (the original) Baal Hadad that was the original influence of Jupiter to begin with. While I don't claim that Saturn is inherently evil as it was originally a God of harvest that later got associated with time/Chronos, this is a proof that culturaly Carthage were already different from Amorite/phoenician mother culture.
With that aside, all we know about Carthage child sacrificebis either roman storytelling, jew retelling and the 2014's
(((Oxford))) university expedition led by
(((Dr. Josephine Quinn))) and
(((Dr. Elizabeth Frood))) with humongous confirmation bias that doesn't go beyond the "OHHHH children graveyard" and writing that say something like "God has heard me and accepted my prayers to return my child" despite humongous amount of miscariage and deformed kids were found on already rather tiny graveyard for a city with half a million population.
https://biblearchaeology.org/research/contemporary-issues/4627-redeeming-the-carthaginians?highlight=WyJvdCIsIm90J3MiXQ==>Carthaginians did not sacrifice their children to Ba’al Hammon in the Tophet. This open air site…was a sanctuary presided over by Ba’al Hammon and his consort, Tanit…To this sanctuary came grieving parents, who gave their children back to Ba’al Hammon and Tanit.Https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2822869/
>The University of Pittsburgh Study (2010): Led by Jeffrey Schwartz, this team published research in PLOS ONE claiming that the skeletal remains in the Tophet matched natural perinatal mortality rates. They argue that many of the remains were fetuses or infants who died shortly after birth and were interred regardless of cause of death.>https://www.futurity.org/carthage-infant-sacrifice-debunked-as-myth/#:~:text=University%20of%20Pittsburgh,societal%20behavior%2C%E2%80%9D%20Schwartz%20says.>Nationalistic Perspectives: The official view in Tunisia (where Carthage is located) has historically leaned toward the cemetery hypothesis to counter what they view as ancient "blak propaganda" by Roman and Greek enemies.>Alternative Inscription Interpretations: Some researchers argue the votive inscriptions (the "writings") are ambiguous and could refer to general religious vows or the hope for a healthy child in the future, rather than a receipt for a completed sacrifice.
>inb4 see?? See?? They literally have tophets on the children graveyard, and thebtophets say they return their child to God!! Please ignore the double standard hypocrisy like of (((Exodus 22:29))), as I said only kikegod chosen people are allowed to pilpulAnd while there is still chance that, despite looking upon as despicable, some elites may have did do family member sacrifice in desperate times of draught or upcoming of a brutal war as an act of great donation, plead, and gratitude, Baal both Hadad and Hammon was the God of what greeks would call Life (fertility) and later Sun, so it was unspeakable for that time to practice any human sacrifices already.