A Wrong Symbol

[Thorfinn the Shallow Minded]

Currently, this represents Carthage in 0 A.D. The deity depicted on the symbol is Tanit, a Carthaginian goddess. Although a god such as Melqart would perhaps be a more appropriate thing, there is not anything terribly wrong about Tanit for Carthage. The real problem comes with the Sacred Band. Maybe I am completely off here, but shouldn't a group of warriors dedicated to Baal have him on their shields as opposed to Tanit? Please forgive me if I am out of line with this; clarification on this would be appreciated.

[Mythos_Ruler]

Do you have any references for Ba'al and Melqart? I rather like the Tanit symbol and it is a common symbol found on Carthaginian inscriptions, so we'd probably keep it unless we could find good aesthetically pleasing symbology for Ba'al or Melqart

[Lion.Kanzen]

The problem many source about some información related with Baal... Many of the se tryign to have religius or racist point of view.

http://aryannations88.blogspot.com/2011/01/judaism-is-baal-worship.html

But is not single one to show this symbol.

---------if Greek gets a great influence over Canaanites and Phoenicians and then over Carthaginians.------

The Greeks reimagined the Phoenician god Melqart as Melikertês (Melicertes) and made him the son of Athamas and Ino. He drowned but was transfigured as the marine deity Palaemon, while his mother became Leucothea. (cf Ino.) At Corinth, he was so closely connected with the cult of Poseidon that the Isthmian Games, originally instituted in Poseidon's honor, came to be looked upon as the funeral games of Melicertes.

Edited April 3, 2014 by Lion.Kanzen

[Lion.Kanzen]

This one is off topic... Im curious

Is there a one that we don't have in game? We can use dolphin one.

[Lion.Kanzen]

The new paganism uses these:

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Canaanite_Neopaganism

[Thorfinn the Shallow Minded]

This is a coin which depicts Melqart, who was often considered the same as Heracles to Punic culture. The bottom image is apparently what Ba'al looked like.