>>510722306Everything is more complicated.
Phoenicians. Extremely difficult guys (I advise you to read the Phoenician History of Philo. By the way, the body of Osiris was found in Byblos, an analogue of Melqart).
So, the Phoenicians revered one god very much - Melqart - he is Heracles (he was also identified with Nergal, Erra, Erragal, Santa / Shanta, Ninurta, Ninanzu, perhaps he is Nimrod). Everyone knows Heracles from Greek myths, but he is extremely difficult, because all the kings traced their lineage from him, he is not just a hero but also a great builder of cities, he even sometimes merged with Dionysus and it was believed that he was the king of the dead because of self-immolation at the stake, apparently, the Romans knew him as Quirinus.
So in the Temple of Melkart there were two special columns, these were Boaz and Jachin, from Phoenicia were Hiram, who built the Temple of Solomon. Phoenician, Ugaritic, Jewish myths are connected (as well as Sumerian, Babylonian and even Egyptian).
Melkart means the king of the city and it consists of two parts. Mlk, Malku, Malik, etc. are connected and most likely Moloch is connected with Melkart, but the Jews also identified him with Baal Hadad and Melkart was also considered an analogue of Baal Hadad (you can ignore the fact that the Greek Heracles did not have any thunderous features, the Greeks themselves understood that this was not their hero, he is much more ancient and complex than it seems)
