Were foundlings ever offered in child sacrfice in ancient Carthage?
That is a myth. Later scholars have declaimed Siculo’s claim of child sacrifice in Carthage. Check out the site below… This is a passage about foundlings from Juvenal: Satire VI, The Ways Of Women…”I say nothing of supposititious children, of the hopes and prayers so often cheated at those filthy pools1 from which are supplied Priests and Salii,2 with bodies that will falsely bear the name of Scauri. There Fortune shamelessly takes her stand by night, smiling on the naked babes; she fondles them all and folds them in her bosom, and then, to provide herself with a secret comedy, she sends them forth to the houses of the great. These are the children that she loves, on these she lavishes herself, and with a laugh brings them always forward as her own nurslings.” ***Melissa…while under the Philistines, I can agree with human sacrifice…Baal, right? I was answering in general, as the practice of sacrifice was revised when the worship of a fertitlity goddess was instituted….Tinlit,
