The Great Mother was in Phoenicia called Astarte; she was a form of. From Wordnik.com. [Myths of Babylonia and Assyria] Reference
Ouranos had a daughter called Astarte (Ashtoreth), another called Rhea. From Wordnik.com. [Atlantis : the antediluvian world] Reference
Nevertheless we find in Canaan an Ashtoreth, whom the Greeks called Astarte, as well as a Baal. From Wordnik.com. [Patriarchal Palestine] Reference
In Syria and Palestine she is known as Astarte, whereas in Cyprus she acquires all the attributes of the goddess of love, Aphrodite. From Wordnik.com. [Aphrodite in New York] Reference
Easter was a pagan festival originally celebrated by the Anglo-Saxons in the spring equinox in honour of a Teutonic goddess known as Astarte or Eostre. From Wordnik.com. [Vanguard] Reference
"Astarte" in the gig, and conducted below into the skipper's cabin. From Wordnik.com. [Under the Meteor Flag Log of a Midshipman during the French Revolutionary War] Reference
"Astarte," a couple of miles off, rolling heavily upon the ground-swell. From Wordnik.com. [Under the Meteor Flag Log of a Midshipman during the French Revolutionary War] Reference
In the meantime the "Astarte," conned by the skipper in person, with old. From Wordnik.com. [Under the Meteor Flag Log of a Midshipman during the French Revolutionary War] Reference
The "Astarte" also proved to be a very pretty sea-boat, though a trifle wet when being driven hard -- but then, what craft is not?. From Wordnik.com. [Under the Meteor Flag Log of a Midshipman during the French Revolutionary War] Reference
Astarte uses them for sport - hunting the likes of us. From Wordnik.com. [Ghost King]
Take your army from Mareen-sa and report to Astarte. '. From Wordnik.com. [Ghost King]
“We will then summon back Astarte,” said the Empress. From Wordnik.com. [Count Robert of Paris] Reference
Woman of Freya, First Lord of Hermes, and the Lady of Astarte, the. From Wordnik.com. [The Plumed Serpent] Reference
The Greeks offered such sacred cakes to Astarte and other divinities. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"] Reference
But, even apart from Astarte, this worship may be proven on other evidence. From Wordnik.com. [Moon Lore] Reference
You cannot travel anywhere on the face of this world without knowing Astarte. '. From Wordnik.com. [Ghost King]
The question here is not whether the Jews worshipped Astarte, but whether Astarte was the moon. From Wordnik.com. [Moon Lore] Reference
Asherah, along with Astarte and Anath, was one of the three great goddesses of the Canaanite pantheon. From Wordnik.com. [Asherah/Asherim: Bible.] Reference
Ancient Syrians thought that meteors were the goddess Astarte descending from heaven into the arms of Her lover. From Wordnik.com. [Donna Henes: Showered With Stars] Reference
Astarte, to which Jeremiah alludes: — “The women knead their dough, to make cakes to the queen of heaven.” —. From Wordnik.com. [Rambles in the Islands of Corsica and Sardinia with Notices of their History, Antiquities, and Present Condition.] Reference
The moon-goddesses of the Orient -- Diana (Juno), Astarte, Anahita, etc. -- preside over the beginnings of human life. From Wordnik.com. [The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought Studies of the Activities and Influences of the Child Among Primitive Peoples, Their Analogues and Survivals in the Civilization of To-Day] Reference
Parallels may also be drawn to the Egyptian Isis, the Sumerian Inanna, and the (related) Babylonian Ishtar/Canaanite Astarte. From Wordnik.com. [Woman Wisdom: Bible.] Reference
There is also a Babylonian version of the myth, which is called "The Descent of Ishtar," and she is known elsewhere as Astarte. From Wordnik.com. [Valerie Tarico: Ancient Sumerian Origins of the Easter Story] Reference
In a tourney last Astarte Day, he had brought a gasp from the crowd when he sliced to the bull through the shaft of his last hit. From Wordnik.com. [Ghost King]
Anathoth is the plural of the name Anath, just as Ashtaroth (compare Deut 1: 4) is the plural of the divine name Ashtar (Astarte). From Wordnik.com. [Anath: Bible.] Reference
Moreover, Astarte, like both her Greek counterpart Aphrodite and her Mesopotamian equivalent, the goddess Ishtar, has astral features. From Wordnik.com. [Astarte: Bible.] Reference
The Greeks call her Aphrodite; the Phoenicians worship her under the name of Astarte -- as your people did, when they were behaving badly. From Wordnik.com. [Evan Eisenberg: Mary Christ (Part 4)] Reference
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