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Home			HISTORY OF SEX
Activism & Sex		EARLY BIBLICAL
Arts & Sensuality	TIME LINE		Canaanites
Commercial Sex	Mesopotamia	Ammonites
Contraception	Ancient Egypt	Amorites	The Canaanites had a similar religious
Disabilities/Illnesses	Ancient India	Canaanites	and sex customs structure to Ancient
Dysfunctions	Ancient China	Hittites	Mesopotamia. They were polytheistic
Human Body	Early Biblical	Israelites	and their Gods and Goddesses had
History of Sex	Early Mediterranean	Moabites	similar names and animal symbols
Law & Sex	Ancient Greece	Philistines	to Mesopotamian deities.
Love & Intimacy	Incan Empire
Paraphilias	Aztec Empire		Athtart (Canaan)=Astarte=Ashtoreth=
Pleasures of Sex	Mayan Empire		Ashtart=Ishtar (Babylonian)
Pregnancy	Native Americans
Relationships	Roman Empire		Athtart was the goddess of human
Religion & Sex	Middle Ages		fertility and sex and a consort of Baal.
Research	Renaissance/Reformation
STDs	Puritans		Baal (Canaan)=Baal-Zephon=
Societies	Victorianism		Hadad=Pidar=Repiu
Variances	Adolf Hitler
Violence	Kinsey - 1950s		Baal was the god of the fertility
	Sex Revolution-60s		of the land, clouds, lightning and
			thunder and a warrior. The Bible

usually wrongly associates Hadad with a 'fertility cult' which is generally assumed to mean prostitutes
and open sex, however, Hadad was the god of the fertility of land and animals, not people.

Anat (Canaan) = Anath = Rahmay

Anat was Baal's sister and a virgin. She was depicted as an archer, a hunter and a warrior.

Ashera (Canaan) = Athirat

Ashera was the mother of all the gods. In some books, she is also referred to as Athtart, but
it is difficult to tell if the two are separate deities or one deity.

The Canaanites also did a lot of trading with other peoples and it seems that Canaanites also borrowed
their gods and goddesses.

Bes (Egypt) : Clay figurines were found of Bes in archeaological digs of Canaanite cities.
Seth (Egypt) : Egyptian style figurines of Seth, which may also have been used for the Canaanite Baal.
Bethshan (Egypt) : A fertility goddess of Egypt found in a figurine, naked profile wearing an Egyptian wig.
Sin (Babylonia) : The moon god, god of the night, god of nightly activities such as sex.
Qadshu (Sumerian) = Qodesh = Qetesh (Egypt) : A goddess of fertility or basically 'sex', with an entire
temple of 'holy prostitutes' known as 'qodshu,' 'qadshu', later called 'q'desha'. Sumerians were a part of Ancient Mesopotamia.

Canaanite women were well adorned with jewelry. They wore anklets, bracelets, necklaces, earrings, and even nose-rings which
were mainly made of gold. They had mirrors and they wore eye-makeup. They also made and wore perfume. Canaanites wives were
purchased from their families with bride-prices.

For Further Reading on the Canaanites:

Frymer-Kensky, Tikva Simone. (1992) In the Wake of Goddesses: Women, Culture, and the Biblical
Transformation of Pagan Myth. New York: Maxwell Macmillan International.
Gray, John. (1964) The Canaanites. New York: Frederick A. Praeger Inc.
Margalith, Othniel. (1994) The Sea Peoples in the Bible. Harrassowitz Verlag: Wiesbaden.
Patai, Raphael. (1959) Sex & Family in the Bible and Middle East. New York: Doubleday & Co.
Tubb, Jonathan. (1998) Canaanites: Peoples of the Past. London: British Museum Press.

Canaanite Links

A Bequest Unearthed: Phoenicians, Punics, & Canaanites
Ancient Israel's History Class
Canaanite/Ugaritic Mythology FAQ
Canaanites and Phoenicians
Religion of the Canaanites: Theology
Walking in Their Sandals: Virtual History Tour of the Holy Land Online

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