Baau

Baau ( Greek Βάαυ ) is the personification of night in Phoenician mythology .

Baau is mentioned in Herennios Philon's Phoenician story in the context of cosmogony . There she is the wife of the wind god Kolpias and the mother of the first mortals, Aion and Protogon .

literature

Franz Cumont : Baau . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume II, 2, Stuttgart 1896, Col. 2653.
Hermann Steuding : Baau . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 1,1, Leipzig 1886, column 744 ( digitized version ).

Individual evidence

↑ Herennios Philon, Fragment 2, 5. In: Karl Müller , Theodor Müller , Victor Langlois (eds.): Fragmenta historicorum graecorum , Volume 3. 1849. P. 565 .

[1] Herennios Philon, Fragment 2, 5. In: Karl Müller , Theodor Müller , Victor Langlois (eds.): Fragmenta historicorum graecorum , Volume 3. 1849. P. 565 .