Creation and Destruction: A Reappraisal of the Chaoskampf Theory https://books.google.ca/books?isbn=1575061066 Phoenician It has been suggested that the term bohû is associated with the Phoeniciandivine name Baau, the goddess of “night,”29 which is mentioned by Philo of Byblos. According to Albright, the divine name Baau “shows that the original form of the noun was bahu.
The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and General Information
1860 – "The Phoenicians believed that the breath of the supreme god Colpiah united with that of Baau (chaos) and produced the primitive matter, Moth."
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The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge 1977
"The first principle was 'an air dark with cloud and wind,' and a 'chaos dark as erebus,' both boundless. The wind fell in love with its parents, and ... From the wind Colpias and his wife Baau ('Night,' cf. Hebr. bohu, 'chaos') were born the men ..."
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Encyclopedia of Goddesses and Heroines. By Patricia Monaghan, PhD, A story parallel to the Hebrew creation narrative was found on an Akkadian cuneiform table a Semitic translation. But the goddess Araru appears as creator. It describes a time before the sky and earth existed…
The Goddess Guide: Exploring the Attributes and Correspondences By Brandi Auset, Ararat: Creation goddess of Turkey. Known throughout Turkey and Armenia, Ararat is embodied as the famous Mount Ararat, the land of mountains where the gods live. She is an earth goddess, creating life from her bones and sustaining it throughout all time.
Legends of the Sumiro-Accadians of Chaldea (Continued). Alice Bodington, the goddess Araru, (the Bohu of Chaldean legend the Bohu of Genesis 1/2) "made the seed of mankind ...That deciphered by George Smith. New Version of Creation story. Paper read by Mr. T.G. Pinches, of the British Museum, at the International Oriental Congress.