Qadesh
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Qadesh may refer to:
- KadeshKadeshThis article is about Kadesh in the lands of the Amurru, bordering on Damascus Syria up to Hammath; see also Kadesh or Kedesh Kadesh was an ancient city of the Levant, located on or near the headwaters or ford of the Orontes River...
or Qadesh — more accurately transliterated nowadays as Qadesh—a historically documented Canaanite walled hill city of antiquity- Battle of Qadesh, believed to be the largest Chariot vs. Chariot battle in history
- QeteshQeteshQetesh is a Sumerian goddess adopted into Egyptian mythology from the Canaanite religion, popular during the New Kingdom. She was a fertility goddess of sacred ecstasy and sexual pleasure....
— a CanaaniteCanaanCanaan is a historical region roughly corresponding to modern-day Israel, Palestine, Lebanon, and the western parts of Jordan...
and Egyptian goddess, the goddess of Love and Beauty; whose name has sometimes been annoted as both Kadesh and Qadesh - Qadesh, a male practitioner of sacred prostitution, translated in the King James Bible as sodomite