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Astarte
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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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Wikidata facts
- Image
- Babylonska astartefigurer, naken, Nordisk familjebok.png
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- Commons category
- Astarte (goddess)
- native label
- 𐤏𐤔𐤕𐤓𐤕
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74 sectionsContents
- 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.