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Astarte

Astarte (; ) is the Hellenized form of the Ancient Near Eastern goddess ʿAṯtart. ʿAṯtart was the Northwest Semitic equivalent of the East Semitic goddess Ishtar.

Key facts

Deity.type: Canaanite
Deity.name: Astarte
Deity.god_of: Goddess of Beauty, Love, War and Hunting
Deity.image: Astarte - 7th cent AD - Museo Arqueológico de Sevilla-2.jpg
Deity.caption: Phoenician statuette figurine of ʿAštart from El Carambolo in Spain
Deity.cult_center: Ugarit, Emar, Sidon, Tyre
Deity.symbols: lion, horse, chariot
Deity.planet: possibly Venus
Deity.consort: possibly Baal (Hadad)
Deity.parents: Epigeius/Ouranos and Ge/Gaea (Hellenised Phoenician tradition) Ptah or Ra (in Egyptian tradition)
Deity.greek_equivalent: Aphrodite
Deity.roman_equivalent: Venus
Deity.equivalent1: Ishtar
Deity.equivalent1_type: Mesopotamian
Deity.equivalent2: Inanna
Deity.equivalent2_type: Sumerian
Deity.equivalent3: Ishara; Shaushka
Deity.equivalent3_type: Hurrian

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Name
Overview
Iconography
Attestations
At Ebla
In early Mari
Among [[Amorites]]
In Amorite Mari
At Ugarit
As hunter goddess
As warrior goddess
As healer goddess
As leonine goddess
As gender non-conforming goddess
Manifestations
As member of the household of El
As consort of Baal
As the "Name of Baal"
Cult
At Emar
As warrior goddess
As hunter goddess
As consort of Baal
Legacy
In Egypt
As warrior goddess
As healer goddess
As hunter goddess
As consort of Set
As the "Face of Baal"
In Canaan
In Phoenicia
Iconography
ʿAštart Ḥor
As the "Name of Baal"
At Sidon
At Byblos
Tanit and ʿAštart
At Acre
At Tyre
Astronoē
In Egypt
In Cyprus
At Kition
At Paphos
At Amathous
In the Aegean Sea and Greece
In Rhodes
At Delos
At Kos
In Malta
In Sicily
In Carthage
In Italy
In Hispania
In Britannia
Rituals
Legacy
In the Levant
In Israel and Judah
In Transjordan
In Philistia
Later interpretations of biblical Astaroth
Myths
At Ugarit
ʿAṯtartu and Anat
Misconceptions in scholarship
Other associations
In popular culture
See also
References
Bibliography
Further reading
External links

Astarte (; ) is the Hellenized form of the Ancient Near Eastern goddess ʿAṯtart. ʿAṯtart was the Northwest Semitic equivalent of the East Semitic goddess Ishtar.

Astarte was worshipped from the Bronze Age through classical antiquity, and her name is particularly associated with her worship in the ancient Levant among the Canaanites and Phoenicians, though she was originally associated with Amorite cities like Ugarit and Emar, as well as Mari and Ebla. She was also celebrated in Egypt, especially during the reign of the Ramessides, following the importation of foreign cults there. Phoenicians introduced her cult in their colonies on the Iberian Peninsula.