Carthage did not sacrifice it's babies

For centuries it has been believed that the rivals to the Romans, the Carthaginians used to sacrifice their children to their gods.
Carthaginian general Hannibal came close to destroying the Roman empire an act which justify to the Republic using genocide to eliminate their major trading rival.
However while the record states that the Carthaginian's were a fairly peaceful lot who were more interested in flogging stuff to anyone would buy it, they had a nasty habit of sacrificing their children. The evidence comes in the forms of large numbers of urns which contain the ashes of kiddies.
Christians always had a bit of a problem with the Carthaginians as they were a colony of the Phoenicians who were connected to the Philistines. Since the religion of these types was a direct rival to the Jewish Yahweh it was best that they had the sort of religion that made the psychopathic lightning god of the mountains look mild be comparison.
The finding of ashes with baby bones in them seemed proof that the mild mannered trading nation was a bunch of child murders whose god asked them to commit murder on their own kin rather than those of another nation. Apparently this is infinitely worse.
Now boffins at the University of Pittsburgh researchers have looked at the DNA and bones found in the ashes and discovered that the kids were probably dead when they were burnt.
Lead boffin Jeffrey Schwartz, a professor of anthropology and history and philosophy of science said that it appears that the very young Punic children were cremated and interred in burial urns regardless of how they died.
He said that the results show that some children were sacrificed, but they contradict the conclusion that Carthaginians were a brutal bunch who regularly sacrificed their own children.
More than 20 percent ashes were of babies who died still born and rather than being first born males as the Christian chroniclers suggest were about fifty percent female.
The figures seem to fit the idea that there was a high high incidence of prenatal and infant mortality and the Carthaginians dealt with infant death by giving them back to the Gods in some form of cremation ritual.
When they went to war the Carthaginians used professional mercenaries to avoid having to use their own citizens. If they lost, they used to crucify their generals to encourage performance on the battlefield.

Its snowing in Rome

First time since the early 1980s.... I really hate snow after bulgaria.

It is a perfectly straight forward question.

In tarot why are cups Briatic and not Yetizeratic?


The student had a point. The order of the elements through-out the GD system are Earth at the bottom, Fire at the top. Next one down is Air and water sinks to be close to earth. All very hermetic and works right the way through the elemental system and the initiation system.

But not in Tarot where Mathers seemed to think water comes from Briah -- possibly because rain is so architypal in Britain.. A teacher can stroke their beard, if they have one, and are a male (a female beard would be too distracting) and say “ah well that is the Yod Heh Vau Heh formula” but as an answer it is pants. The student can quite rightly say “You have just invented another system and stuck it to another system with blutac... c'mon smartie pants what the hell has Briah, or the archetypal world, got to do with water?” Once teachers were respected.

You cant say “well the Yod Heh Vau Heh stuff props up the elemental tablets” either. If it was so important, then the rest of the GD system would support it. More stuff than the Yod Heh Vau Heh symbolism suggests that the order of the element is Fire, Air, Water and Earth. The Kerux's staff which is the first thing to smack you in the heart centre at 0=0 empirically tells you that. The Hermetica, which is supposed to be the GD bible says so too. So why does tarot tell us otherwise?

If you can answer see if you can do so without making reference to another part of the GD system... the answer has to say why in Tarot, cups and not swords are briatic....