Phoenicians Puns

i am a bit puzzled here...

i have very very very old lebanese ancestry with lots of phoenicians in it lol (from my true ancestry, my haplogroup etc)..... and I am white as an european. I know dna changes but...

is it possible that they were more white than lebanese of present day because of hybridation with saudia arabia, ethiopa etc?

or on the contrary were they black like some black african people say?

Did the phoenicians give specific names to individual bodies of water like the greeks and romans did? If so, do we know any of them? I'm more curious about the Black, Mediterranean and Atlantic, although if there are any others I would also love to know.

A while back, I researched Phoenician names for a story I was writing. The story hasn't gone anywhere but I thought this spreadsheet might be of use to someone. I'm not a linguist or expert by any means. Everything is derived from the few sources I could sniff out online.

The names generally work on an affix basis, so you can mix and match stuff to make new names for your projects. Most are theophoric.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1dry5srcXvRw5C6-ZwqXPRpILAJXXdAG8BEdSm3MDtt8/edit?usp=sharing

I referenced A Phoenician-Punic Grammar by Charles R. Krahmalkov, "An Archeological History of Carthaginian Imperialism" by Nathan Pilkington, and "Herodotus and the Chronology of the Kings of Sidon" by Thomas Kelly (among others).

(if this is the wrong sub, kindly point me elsewhere thx)

You could get what you want if you could outsmart god in his parable game. She was like "checkmate, Jesus! You lose in your own game!".

The quite similar narrative written in OT when Jacob won in wrestling game with a mysterious "man" in Pniel & he forced that mysterious man to bless him.

They never tried to impose their language or religion to anyone.

They descended from the Egyptian Empire where Western thought ACTUALLY originated from (Lots of Greek philosophers studied there).

They managed to build a gigantic commercial empire MOSTLY through pacific ways.

Their swift ships created the first large-scale globalization that we know today.

Their alphabet is used everywhere (latin, greek, arabic, hebrew, farsi and ethiopian alphabets all descends from theirs, which originated from Hieroglyphs, not kidding).

They brought peace, prosperity, ideas and technologies, to many people accross the Mediterranean sea.

Trading Hubs where people can meet different people and start questioning their own beliefs and identities (Thales de Milet).

They were merchants, not warriors, who valued exchange, honesty and hard work over conquests and parasitic governance like the Romans, Greeks and Arabs did.

They were TOLERANT. As long as they can do business with you, they don't care what you look like or what your beliefs are.

Literrally created the whole "Mediterranean Culture" thing.

Carthage was the first democratic republic ever, with the first Constitution.

They cared more about money than God, which is ACTUALLY a good thing. Merchants brings you wine, pearls, silk, honey, food, olive oil, spices, technologies, ideas, teachers, art and everything you didn't know you wanted or needed. Religious fanatics only brings you Crusades and Djihads.

If Carthage f*cked the Romans up, Europe would have never been forcibly converted to Christianity and would have retained their own extremely diverse languages, cultures and religious practices (pretty much like India today). Almost nothing is left of old Celtic and Germanic cultures :(

A world shaped by the Phoenicians and not the Warmongerers that followed (Alexandre the not so Great, Ceasar, Scipio, Constantin, etc) could have lead us to the Industrial Revolution muuuch sooner and we would have conquered space already.

Their treaties on Agriculture (Magon) were Priceless. Nothing is left of it thanks to the Romans. 99% of knowledge built up by the Ancient is lost forever, thanks to the "Glorious" conquerers, that everyone remembers because they had good marketing teams and killed countless innocents. Who remembers the scientists, the engineers, architects, workers and business man who allowed culture and knowledge to flourish ? Nobody.

The history we learned at school was built by killers who wanted to b

canaanites turk Iranic whateves gimme your best take

what about making them flairs in 2me4u

I know there's a Walmart just off the 17, but that's always hit and miss, plus I'd rather support a local business if I can.

Where can one go to get things like jackets/wool socks/etc.?

On that note, is it even cold enough right now to warrant those extra layers?

Considering that all of them were speaking semitic languages, was there some idea of common origin or relatedness (not sure how to better describe it) between phoencians and other semitic people's like jews or arabs ?

https://preview.redd.it/6al5oz53xud81.png?width=1192&format=png&auto=webp&s=87bb1bee83cf9f989361bc588d387a3e458bda20

Recently did a dna test and I enjoyed comparing my results to ancient samples I found on gedmatch.

𐤀𐤍𐤊 𐤕𐤁𐤍𐤕 𐤊𐤄𐤍 𐤏𐤔𐤕𐤓𐤕 𐤌𐤋𐤊 𐤑𐤃𐤍𐤌 𐤁𐤍 𐤀𐤔𐤌𐤍𐤏𐤆𐤓 𐤊𐤄𐤍 𐤏𐤔𐤕𐤓𐤕 𐤌𐤋𐤊 𐤑𐤃𐤍𐤌 𐤔𐤊𐤁 𐤁𐤀𐤓𐤍 𐤆 𐤌𐤉 𐤀𐤕 𐤊𐤋 𐤀𐤃𐤌 𐤀𐤔 𐤕𐤐𐤒 𐤀𐤉𐤕 𐤄𐤀𐤓𐤍 𐤆 𐤀𐤋 𐤀𐤋 𐤕𐤐𐤕𐤇 𐤏𐤋𐤕𐤉 𐤅𐤀𐤋 𐤕𐤓𐤂𐤆𐤍 𐤊 𐤀𐤉 𐤀𐤓𐤋𐤍 𐤊𐤎𐤐 𐤀𐤉 𐤀𐤓 𐤋𐤍 𐤇𐤓𐤑 𐤅𐤊𐤋 𐤌𐤍𐤌 𐤌𐤔𐤃 𐤁𐤋𐤕 𐤀𐤍𐤊 𐤔𐤊𐤁 𐤁𐤀𐤓𐤍 𐤆 𐤀𐤋 𐤀𐤋 𐤕𐤐𐤕𐤇 𐤏𐤋𐤕𐤉 𐤅𐤀𐤋 𐤕𐤓𐤂𐤆𐤍 𐤊 𐤕𐤏𐤁𐤕 𐤏𐤔𐤕𐤓𐤕 𐤄𐤃𐤁𐤓 𐤄𐤀 𐤅𐤀𐤌 𐤐𐤕𐤇 𐤕𐤐𐤕𐤇 𐤏𐤋𐤕𐤉 𐤅𐤓𐤂𐤆 𐤕𐤓𐤂𐤆𐤍 𐤀𐤋 𐤉𐤊𐤍 𐤋𐤊 𐤆𐤓𐤏 𐤁𐤇𐤉𐤌 𐤕𐤇𐤕 𐤔𐤌𐤔 𐤅𐤌𐤔𐤊𐤁 𐤀𐤕 𐤓𐤐𐤀𐤌

"I, Tabnit, priest of Astarte, king of Sidon, the son of Eshmunazar, priest of Astarte, king of Sidon, am lying in this sarcophagus. Whoever you are, any man that might find this sarcophagus, don't, don't open it and don't disturb me, for no silver is gathered with me, no gold is gathered with me, nor anything of value whatsoever, only I am lying in this sarcophagus. Don't, don't open it and don't disturb me, for this thing is an abomination to Astarte. And if you do indeed open it and do indeed disturb me, may you not have any seed among the living under the sun, nor a resting-place with the Rephaites."

Here is my personal translation, with no interpretation/recomposition for what is said just the direct translation:

Tabnit Cohen Ashtar Melech their son Ashmenazar Cohen Asherat, the king of their side, lay in Aran 7 Who the whole man fire produced with the haran m Do not open my mouth and do not get angry As e r len money e r len groove and all of them from a demon Without a vertical lay in Baran Z. Do not open my mouth and do not get angry As the abomination of the tenth thing And if you open it, I will rise and get angry Do not place a seed in life under the sun And lies to Rafam

transliteration - ʾnk tbnt khn ʿaštrt mlk ṣdnm bn ʾšmnʿzr khn ʿaštrt mlk ṣdnm škb bʾrn z my ʾt kl ʾdm ʾš tpq ʾyt hʾrn z ʾl ʾl tptḥ ʿlty wʾl trgzn k ʾy ʾrln ksp ʾy ʾr ln ḥrṣ wkl mnm mšd blt ʾnk škb bʾrn z ʾl ʾl tptḥ ʿlty wʾl trgzn k tʿbt ʿaštrt hdbr hʾ wʾm ptḥ tptḥ ʿlty wrgz trgzn ʾl ykn lk zrʿ bḥym tḥt šmš wmškb ʾt rpʾm