#ashtoreth
- Astarte — A major deity of Phoenician and Canaanite mythology, goddess of fertility, carnal love, motherhood, and war, structurally equated with Ishtar in Mesopotamia and Aphrodite in Ancient Greece; her cult, marked by rural rituals and associations with the planet Venus, exerted a profound influence across the Mediterranean basin and is frequently mentioned (often critically) in biblical texts as Ashtoreth.