(Aštarat) Semitic goddess, associated mainly with Syria and Palestine. The Ugaritic form of her name is Attart; she appears in the Old Testament as → Asthoreth, and in Babylon as → Ištar. Her cult was that of an oriental goddess...

A West-Semitic goddess, described by the Babylonian king Hammurabi as ‘daughter-in-law of the king of heaven’ and ‘queen of lasciviousness’. The name derives either from atir=friend, or from an Arabic word meaning...

ATHIRAT, called Ashiratum or Ashratum in Old Babylonian texts, was a West Semitic goddess, worshiped in Syria in the second millennium BCE and still widely attested in southern Arabia in the mid-first millennium BCE and later. The Old Babylonian...

ASTARTE was a Syro–Palestinian goddess widely attested throughout the Mediterranean Levant. References to her first appear in texts from Syria in the third millennium BCE (at Ebla and perhaps Early Dynastic Mari), and increase in the second...

Astarte (from Greek Αστάρτη (Astártē)) is the name of a goddess as known from Northwestern Semitic regions, cognate in name, origin and functions with the goddess Ishtar in Mesopotamian texts. Another transliteration is ‘Ashtart; other names...

ABSTRACT-The presence of the bivalve mollusks Astarte (Tridonta) borealis Schumacher and A. (T.) hopkinsi new species, in uppermost Miocene or lower Pliocene strata of the Milky River Formation on the Alaska Peninsula, southwestern Alaska, signals the earliest opening of Bering Strait. These species migrated...

With the falling prices of CD-R drives and media, more people are making their own CDs. In fact, the glitzy CD-ROM has almost crowded the mundane floppy disk out of its traditional niche, but the larger shiny new disc still isn't...

A leading Norwegian newspaper called on Princess Martha Louise to renounce her royal title Monday after she said she communicates with angels.The 35-year-old princess, who is fourth in line to the Norwegian throne, has come under intense media scrutiny for her involvement in an alternative...

The goddess, Astarte, first appeared in Egyptian Mythology. However her popularity spread and her name changed several times into different variations of her original name. She has come to be known also as Astarat, Astoreth, and may be the inspiration behind later famous Goddesses, such as Inanna, Ishtar, Demeter, Artemis and Aphrodite.