Astarte
Phoenician · deity · mythic · deity
Great Phoenician goddess of love, war, and the evening-star (Venus); chief goddess of Sidon, Tyre, and Byblos, served by royal priests.
Domains
- love and sex
- war
Powers
- Kindle sexual desire, beauty, and procreation
- Ride armed into battle as war-goddess
- shines as the evening star (Venus) and governs the heavens
Epithets
- ʿštrt šm bʿl
- rbt ʿštrt
Relations
- lover: Eshmun
- spouse: Melqart
- equated with: Athtart
- interpretatio: Aphrodite
- equated with: Inanna
- interpretatio: Uni
Sources
- Sidonian royal sarcophagi (Tabnit, Eshmunazar II); Byblos inscriptions
- Britannica, Astarte