Talk:Melqart

message: I heard that the actual columns of the Melqart temple at Gadir were reinterpreted as the Columns of Hercules.
If they are like those at Tyros, it's understandable that they made it into myth.
Can somebody talk about the Gadir columns?
--Error 01:42, 20 Feb 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: Can you cite any sources for the story of Hannibal's vision? Krunkers 00:47, 17 Jan 2008 (UTC)
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message: i was going thro the aticle, when it struck me. has the name melqart to do anything with the milky way, which is the abode of vishnu, the hindu God? well it's just a wild guess, and somehow it came to me, after a huge treasure was discovered at "thiru anantha puram" or " the city of anantha ( the serpant) on whom Lord Vishnu reclines. my wild guess is that just before the destruction of Solomon's temple, by nebuccadanezzar, the entire treasure was transferred here for some reasons by the LORD.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Geevrghese (talk • contribs) 16:32, 6 July 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Melqart 

message: I've amended the references in this section to avoid citation tags. Livy says Hannibal went to the temple of Hercules and the youth was sent from Jupiter. The association is obvious, but we really need a third reference that makes the link to avoid accusations of OR/synthesis. Fiddlersmouth (talk) 12:01, 10 January 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Hannibal and Melqart 

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message: I removed the following unsupported statement: 
"The Macedonian month of Peritius corresponds to our February, indicating this annual awakening was in no way a solstitial celebration".
Unless a citation can be given that supports the view that Melqart's awakening specifically was not solar in nature, then it is rash (and POV) to so forcefully conclude that the awakening is not solar in nature merely due to the placement of the celebration approximately one lunar cycle (month) out from the winter solstice. 
There is no axiom that holds that all solar celebrations need to be within a rigid period of either of the solstices or equinoxes, and the awakening celebration is indeed still proximate to the solstice. Melqart's  established association with Heracles should be considered when making a decision on the relative appropriateness of making that definite assertion in the negative (aside from the POV issue itself), given the common association of the Twelve Labors of Heracles with Solar Mythology (through Helios). I believe that the issue should be un-commented on in the article unless a quality citation can be sourced. 
Additionally, stating that Peritius "corresponds" to February may be misleading in terms of how that period was viewed for timekeeping or ritual purposes. The latter being the context in which the above removed statement was used. While Peritius was the intercalary month that began in January and indeed extended through February, Peritius is known as the "Moon of January". See the Wiki article here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Macedonian_calendar 
In sum, It does't do the Melqart article a service to engage in conjecture in regard to how these periods were viewed for ritual purpose or in regard to what these periods might imply in terms of mythological meaning (again, without citations). Milner33 (talk) 11:34, 30 June 2019 (UTC)
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message: I have removed the etymology given above from the article. It was unsourced (unlike the etymology given afterwards, that it comes from "King of the City"), and is false on its face. The Phoenician for king of the earth would be mlk-ʕrṣ. Merging the kaf and ayin into a qof isn't too implausible, although simplifying an lk-q cluster to lq is even certainly more plausible (Phoenician only allowing clusters of up to two phonemes), but tsade appearing as a tav is not otherwise attested and unlikely given the general good preservation of the phoneme. Tristanjlroberts (talk) 12:04, 28 November 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Melqart ~ King of The Earth