10 Facts About Tanit

Tanit's was the chief deity of Carthage alongside her consort Baal-Hamon.

Tanit's was equivalent to the war goddess Astarte, and later worshipped in Roman Carthage in her Romanized form as Dea Caelestis, Juno Caelestis, or simply Caelestis.

Tanit was worshiped in Punic contexts in the Western Mediterranean, in Sicily, Malta, North Africa, Gades and many other places into Hellenistic times.

Tanit's is given the epithet and the title, the female form of .

Tanit worship became popular in the Tyrian colony of Carthage, especially after the separation between Carthage and Tyre in the fifth century, when the traditional Phoenician cults of Astarte and Melqart were displaced by the Punic worship of Tanit and Baal Hammon.

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Similarly, long after the fall of Carthage, Tanit was still venerated in North Africa under the Latin name of: Juno Caelestis, for her identification with Juno.

Tanit's is represented by the crescent moon and the Venus symbol.

Tanit's is depicted winged, possibly under influence of Egyptian artwork of Isis.

Origins of Tanit are to be found in the pantheon of Ugarit, especially in the Ugaritic goddess Anat .

In Kate Elliott's Spiritwalker trilogy, a romanticised version of Tanit is one of many deities commonly worshiped in a polytheistic Europa.