Chousor

Chousor is Kothar with the vowels worn off and a Greek ending. At Ugarit, Kothar-wa-Hasis is the divine craftsman who builds Baal's house, makes the maces that beat Yam and forges the bow that gets Aqhat killed; in Philo, a thousand years later, Chousor invents iron and is described as a man, because Philo's whole method is to say that the gods were clever early people. That the two names are the same god is one of the clearest demonstrations that Philo is transmitting something real and not inventing it — the Ugaritic tablets that prove it were not dug up until 1929.

Domains

• craft

Relations

• counterpart of: Kothar-wa-HasisThe same craftsman god a thousand years later and in a Greek transcription: Kothar builds Baal's palace and makes Aqhat's bow at Ugarit; Chousor invents iron in Philo.Reference treatment of Chousor as the Phoenician reflection of the Ugaritic Kothar-wa-Hasis. (secondary)

Sources

• Chousor is the craftsman figure of Philo of Byblos's Phoenician History, credited with the invention of iron and metalwork, and identified as the Phoenician form of the Ugaritic Kothar-wa-Hasis.: Philo of Byblos, Phoenician History. (primary); Reference treatment of Chousor and his relation to Kothar-wa-Khasis. (secondary)