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To: alt.fan.kali.astarte.inanna,alt.pagan,alt.religion.wicca,alt.mythology,talk.religion.misc,alt.religion.all-worlds From: Terry BaileySubject: Re: Astarte Date: 1 May 1996 20:08:03 GMT According to Dent's "Who's Who, Non-Classical Mythology": "She was the fertility goddess of the Semitic races, her cult having spread throughout the whole middle east. In Babylonia, she became Ishtar. By the Greeks she was equated with Aphrodite, who would appear to be the same but in a new setting. As the goddess of the planet Venus, she would appear to be a variant of Athar, the South Semitic Venus god. As Ashtoreth, she was a goddess of war in Egypt from 1800 BCE until the coming of Christianity." Alternate spelling: Ashtart.
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