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Astarte

   

Pantheon: Phoenician
Deity Of: Fertility and Sexual Pleasure
Gender: Female
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Description: Astarte, (aka Ashtoreth, Ashtaroth, Ashtart, Ishtar) is the general. Assyrian Fertility Goddess as well as the Goddess of love, war and the planet Venus. She is usually depicted as being naked, wearing a lapis-lazuli necklace and carrying a spear or a bow. Sometimes she is shown with crescent-Moon horns; and sometimes she is shown walking on a lion.

 
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