ʿAṯtar
ʿAṯtar is a Semitic deity of the planet Venus. ʿAštar was the Moabite adaptation of the North Arabian god ʿAṯtar, himself a form of the Semitic deity of the planet Venus, ʿAṯtar, in the combined form of ʿAštar-Kamōš.
↻ synthesized from 9 sources
When
- First attested
- 3000 BCE
- Attested period
- -3000 – 0
- Historical notes
- Semitic deity of the planet Venus.
Relationships
- co occurs with
- Šaggar, ʿAṯtart, ʿAštōret, Hūbis, Huwbis, Sayin, ʾIl, Ninurta, Lugalbanda, Nergal, Aštabi, Imzuanna, Lulu, Ninzuanna, Lugalmea, Ili-mīšar, Nabu, Resheph, Yam, Sin, Athirat, Kothar, Pidray, Nikkal, Ningal, Kušuḫ, Kotharat, Ḫiriḫibi, El, Baal, Mot, Anat, Kothar-wa-Khasis, Shapshu, Ashtart, Shapash, Yarikh, Dagan, Shalim, Shahar, Hauron, Tunnanu, Horon, Ẓiẓẓu-wa-Kāmaṯu, Milku, Inanna, Shamash, Ištar, God
- syncretized with
- ʿAštar-Kamōš, Inanna, Lugal-Marada, Chemosh, ʿAmm
- manifests as
- ʿAttar-qāmu
- allied with
- Attapar
- equivalent to
- ʿAštar
- has aspect
- ʿAttar-Šamayin, ʿAṯtart ṣawwādatu
Mentioned by
Sources
Source passages
“ʿAštar (𐤏𐤔𐤕𐤓), who was the Moabite adaptation of the North Arabian god ʿAṯtar, himself a form of the Semitic deity of the planet Venus, ʿAṯtar, in the combined form of ʿAštar-Kamōš”
#11623 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001
“ʿAṯtart was formed by adding the Afroasiatic feminine suffix -t to the name of the deity ʿAṯtar, more recent views accept the names ʿAṯtar and ʿAṯtart as being etymologically related while considering the exact relationship between them to be unclear. The meaning of the names ʿAṯtar and ʿAṯtart are themselves still unclear.”
#22781 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001
“The South Arabian ʿAṯtar was a hunter god, and the ancient South Arabians performed ritual hunts in his honour as fertility rites with the goal of making the rain fall. The chosen prey during these hunts were probably gazelles, which were sacred to ʿAṯtar.”
#23856 · extracted by anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5