The Phoenician History of Sanchuniathon (via Philo of Byblos)
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What this is
The Phoenicians' own account of the beginning, surviving only because Eusebius quoted it in Praeparatio Evangelica I.6–7 in order to attack it. A cosmogony of wind and desire, then generations of culture-heroes who INVENT things — fire, fishing, letters, metal, the working of iron — and are afterwards worshipped as gods. Ouranos, El (given as Cronus), Dagon and Astarte are named in a line.
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Companion reading path
What to read alongside it, and why.
The Baal Cycle (the Ugaritic tablets)
Canaanite & Phoenician
The tablets that proved this text is carrying real Canaanite tradition.
1 Enoch (The Ethiopic Book of Enoch)
Grimoires
The same shape: named beings bring the arts to humanity and are remembered for it.