Board Thread:Antaeus' Arena: Audience Chamber/@comment-1515612-20170707180626/@comment-31094009-20170915021935

Now some people wont like comparing gods from different pantheons and I realize this, however I do believe some insight can be drawn from such a comparison. Inanna a Sumerian goddess whom Hera would later be based on, was the goddess of love, beauty, sex, desire, fertility, there were a lot of those back then, war, combat and political power. The Hephaestus equivalent was Nusku a god who was worshiped more for his fire ability than anything martial. The same goes for their Babylonian equivalents, the Punic gods and goddess is where this battle goes lopsided, Kothar-wa-Khasis isn't just a fighter he's also a magician who accompanies Ba'al  and crafts him two clubs which the later uses to kill the sea god Yam, however Hera's equivalents are on a level all to themselves. The Carthaginian Tanit is the protector of Carthage herself, her solders were some of the most feared of the ancient times forming the Carthaginian sacred band, so against Tanit Kothar-wa-Khasis would face an opponent that could stand up to him. The Phonecean version of Hera however would probably be able to wipe the mat with any Greek god or goddess. Anat, the wife, and sister, of Ba'al, in a passage  found in Syria it describes her as ​wading knee deep in blood and attaching decapitated heads and cut off hands  to her chest and keeping the hands in her sash.​ while these arnt Hera and Hephaestus themselves, I feel like it helps to take a step back and look at the combatants through a different set of eyes.