Conclusion

The religion of Carthage is not fully understood to this day and is deserving of further study. We might come to understand why the general Hamilcar, the son of Hanno, commited suicide during the battle of Himera (480 B.C.) when his army was losing, or what transpired at the end of the First Punic war (241 B.C.), the day Hamilcar Barca took the hand of his son Hannibal and placed it on the sacrificial victim in the temple of Baal Hammon, and bid him swear that he would never be a friend to the Romans.

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