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Carthage derived the original core of its religion from Phoenicia. The Phoenician pantheon was presided over by the father of the gods, but a goddess was the principal figure in the Phoenician pantheon.

The system of gods and goddesses in Phoenician religion also influenced many other cultures. There are too many similarities to be overlooked. In some instances the names of gods underwent very little change when they were borrowed. Even the legends maintained major similarities. Egyptian, Babylonian, Assyrian, Persian and others had their influences on the Phoenician faith system as well as borrowed from it.

We are comparatively ill informed about the deities worshipped by the early Phoenicians when they came to Carthage from the East to set up trading posts, great and small, along the maritime highway which also took them as far as Caries in Spain. These sailors and salesmen must primarily have invoked the gods who could ensure them a safe voyage, permitting them to defy storms or to evade rocks, and to gain hospitable havens which would shelter them alike from the hostility of nature and of man. Such, doubtless, was the substance of the prayers they addressed to the god Resheph, whose statuette was recovered from the sea near Selinunte in 1961.

The Phoenicians worshipped a triad of deities, each having different names and attributes depending upon the city in which they were worshipped, although their basic nature remained the same. The primary god was El, protector of the universe, but often called Baal. The son, Baal or Melqart, symbolized the annual cycle of vegetation and was associated with the female deity Astarte in her role as the maternal goddess. She was called Asherar-yam, our lady of the sea, and in Byblos she was Baalat, our dear lady. Astarte was linked with mother goddesses of neighboring cultures, in her role as combined heavenly mother and earth mother. religious statues of Astarte in many different forms were left as votive offerings in shrines and sanctuaries as prayers for good harvest, for healthy children, and for protection and tranquillity in the home. The Phoenician triad was incorporated in varying degrees by their neighbors and Baal and Astarte eventually took on the look of other deities.

The supreme divine couple was that of Tanit and Ba'al Hammon. The goddess Astarte seems to have been popular in early times. At the height of its cosmopolitan era Carthage seems to have hosted a large array of divinities from the neighbouring civilizations of Greece, Egypt and the Etruscan city-states.
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Player Ma St Ag Av Skills Inj G Cp Td It Cs Mvp SPP Cost  
1
Melqarth
Saurus
6 4 1 9   2 0 0 0 1 0 2/ 80k
(80)k
  
2
Resheph
Saurus
6 4 1 9   2 0 0 0 1 0 2/ 80k
(80)k
  
3
Baal
Saurus
6 4 1 9 -ag, m 2 0 0 0 0 0 0/ 80k
(0)k
  
4
Shamash
Saurus
6 4 1 9   2 0 0 0 0 0 0/ 80k
(80)k
  
5
Mot
Saurus
6 4 1 9   2 0 0 0 0 0 0/ 80k
(80)k
  
6
Sahar
Saurus
6 4 1 9   2 0 0 0 0 0 0/ 80k
(80)k
  
7
Tanit
Skink
8 2 3 7
Dodge, Stunty
Side Step
   2 0 1 0 0 1 8/ 80k
(100)k
  
8
Yarikh
Skink
8 2 3 7
Dodge, Stunty
   2 0 0 0 0 1 5/ 60k
(75)k
  
9
Kothar
Skink
8 2 3 7
Dodge, Stunty
   1 0 0 0 0 0 0/ 60k
(75)k
  
10
Eshmun
Skink
8 2 3 7
Dodge, Stunty
Side Step
   2 0 3 0 0 0 9/ 80k
(100)k
  
11
Asherah
Skink
8 2 3 7
Dodge, Stunty
   2 0 1 0 0 0 3/ 60k
(75)k
  
10 players (+1 player missing next game)  
Coach: coalheart Re-Rolls (120k): 2  
Race: Lizardmen Fan Factor: 10  
Current Team Value: 0k Assistant Coaches: 0  
Treasury: 90k Cheerleaders: 0  
Team Value: 1010k Apothecary: Yes  

Games Played:2 (2/0/0) |TD Diff:4 (5 - 1) |Cas Diff:0 (2/0/0 - 1/1/0)
Last Opponent: Brizzle Sunblighters