Esmun Etruscan God of Healing God of Healing Culture/Region Western Seme...
Esmun Etruscan God of Healing
God of Healing
Culture/Region Western Semetic (Phoenician)
Known first from the Iron age levels at Sidon, his cult spread
as far as Carthage, Cyprus and Sardinia.
His name is linked to the mother Goddess Caelestis.
He is linked with the development of medical science in the
early Phoenician cultue and his cult centers were typically attached to
education in healing arts.
His sacred stone is Amber which is said to help draw
sickness from the body and negativity from the emotional energy.
He was incorporated into Greek culture as the physician God Asklepios.
He was venerated as such from roughly 800 bce until the Christianization
of the empire.
Cult Center was in Pergamon,
Asklepios is associated with the medical symbol of the two
serpents which we still see today.
