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On the Phoenicians in the ancient Lebanese city of Tyre:
"Each spring, in a carefully choreographed festival called the egersis, an effigy of the god was placed on a giant raft before being ritually burnt as it drifted out to sea while hymns were sung by the assembled crowds. For the Tyrians, as for many other ancient Near eastern peoples, the emphasis fell upon the restorative properties of fire, for the god himself was not destroyed but revived by the smoke, and the burning of the effigy thus represented rebirth."
We know fire. We will rise from fire. We will burn brighter than we have before
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worldhistory.org/Tyre/
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