Editing Baal Hammon (section)

==Etymology==
He is identified as one of the Phoenician deities covered under the name of [[Baal]].<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.worldhistory.org/Carthaginian_Religion/|title=Carthaginian Religion|work=[[World History Encyclopedia]]|access-date=2017-08-04}}</ref> However, the meaning of his second name is unclear. Frank Moore Cross argued for a connection to ''Hamōn'', the [[Ugaritic language|Ugaritic]] name for Mount Amanus, a peak in the [[Nur Mountains]] that separate [[Syria]] from [[Cilicia]].<ref>{{cite book|last1=Cross|first1=Frank Moore|title=Canaanite Myth and Hebrew Epic|date=1973|publisher=Harvard University Press|page=26-28|isbn=9780674091764|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-eOycxXAoHMC&q=Ugaritic|accessdate=19 January 2017}}</ref> In the 19th century, when [[Ernest Renan]] excavated the ruins of Ḥammon, now [[Umm_al-Amad, Lebanon|Umm al-Amad]], between [[Tyre, Lebanon|Tyre]] and [[Acre, Israel|Acre]], he found two Phoenician inscriptions dedicated to [[El (deity)|El]]-Ḥammon.<ref name=Walbank/>

Others have proposed Ḥammon as a [[syncretism|syncretic]] association with [[Amun]], the god of [[ancient Libya]],<ref>S. G. F. Brandon, ''Dictionary of Comparative Religion'', 1970, Littlehampton, 978-0297000440</ref> In [[Siwa Oasis]], a solitary [[oracle]] of Amun remained near the [[Libyan Desert]],<ref>[[Pausanias (geographer)|Pausanias]], ''Description of Greece'' x.13 § 3</ref>  while a last current has called instead for a connection with the [[Northwest Semitic languages|Northwest Semitic]] word ''ḥammān'' "[[brazier]]", suggesting the sense "Lord of the Brazier".<ref name=Walbank/>