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Wilford, John Noble (1969). We reach the moon; the New York times story of man's greatest adventure. New York: Bantam Books. p. 167. LCCN 74006295.

Phoenician sources

A Phoenician account survives in a paraphrase of the Greek author Philo of Byblos by Eusebius,^[1] who writes of a Phoenician historian named Sanchuniathon. In this account Death is a son of Elus and counted as a god, as the text says in speaking of Elus/Cronus:

And not long after another of his sons by Rhea, named Muth, having died, he deifies him, and the Phoenicians call him Thanatos ['Death'] and Pluto.

But earlier in a philosophical creation myth Sanchuniathon has referred to great wind which merged with its parents and that connection was called 'Desire' (πόθος)^[2]

From its connection Mot was produced, which some say is mud, and others a putrescence of watery compound; and out of this came every germ of creation, and the generation of the universe. So there were certain animals which had no sensation, and out of them grew intelligent animals, and were called "Zophasemin", that is "observers of heaven"; and they were formed like the shape of an egg. Also Mot burst forth into light, and sun, and moon, and stars, and the great constellations.

The form Mot (Μώτ) ^[3] here is not the same as Muth (Μοὺθ)^[4] which appears later.

Phoenician
Letter [←]
Value	ʾ	b	g	d	h	w	z	ḥ	ṭ	y	k	l	m	n	s	ʿ	p	ṣ	q	r	š	t
Western Greek [5] [6]
Letter [→]
Value	a	b	g	d	e	w	zd	h	tʰ	i	k	l	m	n		o	p	s	k	r	s	t	u	ks	pʰ	kʰ
Transcription	Α	Β	Γ	Δ	Ε	Ϝ	Ζ	Η	Θ	Ι	Κ	Λ	Μ	Ν	Ξ	Ο	Π	Σ	Ϙ	Ρ	Σ	Τ	Υ	Χ	Φ	Ψ
Etruscan - from 7th century BC [7][8]
Marsiliana [←]
Archaic (to 5th c.) [←]
Neo (4th to 1st c.)[←]
Value	a		k		e	v	ts	h	th	i	k	l	m	n			p	sh	k	r	s	t	u		ph	kh	f
Transcription	a		c		e	v	z	h	θ	i	k	l	m	n			p	ś	q	r	s	t	u		φ	χ	f
Oscan - from 5th century BC [9]
Letter [←]
Value	a	b	g	d	ɛ	v	ts	x?		i	k	l	m	n			p			r	s	t	o:				f	o	e
Transcription	A	B	G	D	E	V	Z	H		I	K	L	M	N			P			R	S	T	U				F	Ú	Í
Umbrian - from 7th century BC
Letter [←]
Value	a	b	g	d	ɛ	v	ts	x?		i	k	l	m	n			p			r	s	t	o:				f
Transcription	A	B	G	D	E	V	Z	H		I	K	L	M	N			P			R	S	T	U				F

Etruscan alphabet

Various Indo-European languages belonging to the Italic branch (Faliscan and members of the Sabellian group, including Oscan, Umbrian, and South Picene, and other Indo-European branches such as Celtic, Venetic and Messapic) originally used the alphabet. Faliscan, Oscan, Umbrian, North Picene, and South Picene all derive from an Etruscan form of the alphabet.^{[citation needed]}

Letters

Phoenician model
Western Greek
Sound in Ancient Greek	a	b	g	d	e	w	zd	h	tʰ	i	k	l	m	n	ks	o	p	s	k	r	s	t	u	ks	pʰ	kʰ
Unicode Old Italic block	𐌀	𐌁	𐌂	𐌃	𐌄	𐌅	𐌆	𐌇	𐌈	𐌉	𐌊	𐌋	𐌌	𐌍	𐌎	𐌏	𐌐	𐌑	𐌒	𐌓	𐌔	𐌕	𐌖	𐌗	𐌘	𐌙	𐌚
Marsiliana tablet
Archaic Etruscan
Neo-Etruscan
Transcription	a		c		e	v	z	h	θ	i	k	l	m	n			p	ś	q	r	s	t	u		φ	χ	f
Approx. pron.	a		k		e	v	ts	h	th	i	k	l	m	n			p	sh	k	r	s	t	u		ph	kh	f

The shapes of the Archaic Etruscan and Neo-Etruscan letters had a few variants, used in different places and/or in different epochs. Shown above are the glyphs from the Unicode Old Italic block, whose appearance will depend on the font used by the browser. These are oriented as they would be in lines written from left to right. Also shown are SVG images of variants shown as they would be written right to left, as in most of the actual inscriptions.^[10][11]

• Eusebius of Caesarea (1903a). Praeparatio Evangelica. Translated by Gifford, E. H. {{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |1= (help)
• Eusebius of Caesarea (1903b). Gifford, Edwin Hamilton (ed.). Evangelicae praeparationis libri XV. Oxonii: E Typographeo academico. OCLC 224082241. OL 24782477M.