He also pointed out that the concept of Athirat, Anat and Ashtart as a trinity of sorts (popularized by authors like Tikva Frymer-Kensky), is modern and ignores the role of other deities in Ugarit - for example Shapash as well as the importance of the connection between Athirat and El. Wiggins found no evidence Ashtart was ever conflated with Athirat. While the worship of Ashtart and Anat as a pair is well attested, Steve A. John Day asserts that all three shared many traits with each other and may have been worshipped in conjunction or separately during 1500 years of cultural history. ʿAṯtart, a goddess of the hunt also sharing Anat's warlike role, regarded as analogous to Ishtar and Ishara in Ugaritic god lists and as such possibly connected to love.ʾAṯirat, described as "Lady of the Sea" ( rbt ảṯrt ym) and "mother of the gods" ( qnyt ỉlm).At Ugarit, cuneiform tablets attest multiple Canaanite goddesses, among them three are considered as relevant to theories about the origin of Atargatis: She is sometimes described as a mermaid-goddess, due to identification of her with a fish-bodied goddess at Ashkelon.Ītargatis is seen as a continuation of Bronze Age goddesses. And from that day to the present no one in Urhâi emasculates himself anymore". But when King Abgar became a believer, he commanded that anyone who emasculated himself should have a hand cut off. Īccording to a third-century Syriac source, "In Syria and in Urhâi the men used to castrate themselves in honor of Taratha. As Ataratheh, doves and fish were considered sacred to her: doves as an emblem of the Love-Goddess, and fish as symbolic of the fertility and life of the waters. Michael Rostovtzeff called her "the great mistress of the North Syrian lands". Her chief sanctuary was at Hierapolis, modern Manbij, northeast of Aleppo, Syria. Primarily she was a fertility goddess, but, as the baalat ("mistress") of her city and people she was also responsible for their protection and well-being. Atargatis (known as Derceto by the Greeks ) was the chief goddess of northern Syria in Classical antiquity.
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