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https://archive.4plebs.org/x/thread/40954576/#40963983
Phoenicians were seafarers, metallurgists, and traders. To inland Mesopotamians, their ability to cross the “endless sea” and return with gold, tin, cedar, and dyes must have looked superhuman.
If they presented themselves as chosen of the gods or gods themselves that would seed the myth of sky-born rulers who demand labor, mining, and tribute.
The “gold for gods” motif in Sumer could thus encode the Phoenicians’ mercantile extraction economy disguised in myth.
The Double-Myth Strategy
Atlantis was as a Phoenician invention to mythologize the fall of Babylon between two seas:
Babylon = between the Tigris & Euphrates (two seas/“waters of the deep”).
The fall of a mighty empire, swallowed by hubris, “sunk beneath the waters,” becomes Plato’s Atlantis much later likely through Phoenician intermediaries who passed Near Eastern tales into Greek memory.
Same template:
“We are the survivors
we are the chosen line
others fell.”
That’s a perfect myth for traders who never want to be seen as conquerors.
