The Routledge Dictionary of Gods and Goddesses , Devil and Demons
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 ‘brilliance, brightness’; if the latter derivation is correct, this would seem to point to a solar connection. In South Arabia, Atirat appears in association with the moon-god → Amm.
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