Geography/Culture: Africa: Carthage. She has a temple at Carthage, (37.04n x 10.18e), [in modern Tunisia, originally Libya], which was founded by the Phoenicians.
Linguistic Note: the fopho rendering is probably incorrect. The i may very well be a fopho E, and the ultimate t and h both pronounced, as in fopho: T*NETH. Tanith's name appears first in Carthage. It is thought it might be the assimilation of a local Goddess. {Note: However, ta in Egyptian signifies female. If this is a correct interpretation of the first syllable, the -nith, (variant -nit), element of Her name may be linguistically related to Egyptian Neith (which has Nit as a variant). It is perhaps possible that Her name is related to Tanetu, one of Hat-Hor's titles as Goddess of light. The consonantal quality of the Egyptian script probably renders Tanetu, as t'ntw. That Hat-Hor is identified with Semitic Balat, a name which is probably a transliteration variant of Baalat, a title of Tanith, enhances the possibility, in my mind.}
Description: Winged Goddess of the heavens; Ruler of the sun, the moon, the stars and their calendrical revolutions; Heavenly Virgin; Great Lady; Mother; Matron of fertility; Protectress of cities; She Who condoned child sacrifice {ie perhaps She Who advocates the control of human populations to such numbers as allow a gracious and pleasant way of life for all}.
Her priestesses were astrologers.
To Whom Sacred: trees; dove; 'symbol (or sign) of Tanith' (truncated cone surmounted by a disk, sometimes with a horizontal line between disk and cone, the ends of which turn upward at right-angles); the crescent moon (lying on its back); the planet Venus; beytl {?}; open-hand emblem; child sacrifice (it has been suggested this phenomenon may have been a population control device).
Male Associate: Baal-Ammon (Baal-Hammon), ----.

Titles/Variants, etc:
• Astart, Conceiving-Womb, was also worshipped in Carthage, but it is unclear as to whether She was assimilated in Tanith.
• Tanith was also called Astroache, *STRO*XA, Queen-of-the-Stars.
• Title: Baalat, Lady, Who is linked with Zarpanit.
• Perhaps also called Baalat-Haedrat, Mistress-of-the-Sanctuary.
• Annual child sacrifice was sacred to the Spartan Goddess Helene, Bright-Moon.
• The Romans in Carthage called Her Caelestis, below.
• Perhaps also known to the Romans as Carthago, K*3*GO, ---, although this name may have signified a personification of the land.
• After Her deification Elissa, Goddess, (below), may have been identified with Tanit.
• Carthagian Astart, meaning Tanit, was identified with Juno, {Shining-One}.
• She may have been assimilated to Roman Libera, Free-One, after the fall of Carthage.
• Robert Graves identifies Tanith with Neith, World-Weaver. See also Tanith Linguistic Note above.
• Coins struck in Sicily at the end of the 5th century BCE show the head of Tanit "in the guise of" Persephoneia, Bringer-of-Destruction, so it would seem they became identified.
• Perhaps also called Rabbat-Umma, Great-Mother.
• She may have been mortalized as Tanaquil, ----, the legendary Latin Queen from Etruria, who bestowed sovereignty on the Tarquin kings.
• Perhaps Her name is related to Egyptian Tanetu, ----, a title of Hat-Hor (and with Whom Tanetu is linked)..
• Transliteration or language variant: Tanit.
• Also called: Tanit-Pene-Baal, {Tanit-Reflecting-Baal}.

Geography/Culture: Africa: Romans in Carthage. Having crushed the city of Carthage in 146 BCE, the Romans rebuilt and occupied it till 698 CE when it was finally destroyed by the Arabs).
Linguistic Note: {perhaps fopho should be CIL]STYS}. Since Juno, only bears the surname Caelestis in Her identification with Tanith {try and check that statement} perhaps Dea-Caelestis, the Roman alternate name for Tanith, was a translation of the name of Tanith.

Titles/Variants, etc:
• Sometimes fore-titled Dea, qv Habondia.
• Sometimes fore-titled Juno, qv.
• A Roman title for, or possibly the Latin translation of, Tanith.

Titles/Variants, etc:
• A name by which Elissa, came to be known, perhaps after Her deification, see below.

Titles/Variants, etc:
• She subsequently became known as Dido, see above.
• Variant: Elissar.
• Galatea is also associated with Pygmalion, see below.
• The slight similarity in names, and the association of Helene, with child sacrifice suggests a possible connection between the two Goddesses.
• See also Helice.

Titles/Variants, etc:
• The name of one of the Nereides, `Wet-Ones'.

Titles/Variants, etc:
• Priestess/title incarnation of Aphrodite, `{Froth-of-Replication}', in Cyprus.
• Mothe