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To nomads, Astarte may well have been a sheep-goddess, but this, if her earliest, was not her only type, as is clear from the sacred fish of Atargatis, the doves of Ascalon (and of the Phoenician sanctuary of Eryx), and the gazelle or antelope of the goddess of love (associated also with the Arabian Athtar).

Robertson Smith, too, argues that Astarte was originally a sheep-goddess, and points to the interesting use of "Astartes of the flocks" (Deut.

4 A model of an Astarte with ram's horns was unearthed by R.

Astarte was introduced also into Egypt and had her temple at Memphis.

But it is probable that the horns were primarily ram's horns, 4 and that Astarte the moon-goddess is due to the influence of the Egyptian Isis 1 The vocalization suggests the Heb.

ASTARTE, a Semitic goddess whose name appears in the Bible as Ashtoreth.'

Ishtar, Astarte).

105; see further Astarte, Aphrodite.

Paphos owes its ancient fame to the cult of the "Paphian goddess" llacNaFavavaa, or 7) IIacaia, in inscriptions, or simply n 8ea), a nature-worship of the same type as the cults of Phoenician Astarte, maintained by a college of orgiastic ministers, practising sensual excess and self-mutilation.'

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astarte's Meaning':

an ancient Phoenician goddess of love and fertility; the Phoenician counterpart to Ishtar