Ashtar
deity sky Aksumites single tradition · 2
Ashtar was the main god in the South Semitic pantheon of the Aksumites and Himyarites. He was the father of Maher, the war deity.
↻ synthesized from 2 sources
When
- First attested
- 1500 BCE
- Attested period
- -1500 – -1200
- Historical notes
- Ugaritic texts date to the Late Bronze Age.
Relationships
- parent of
- Maher
- sibling of
- Ba'al Hadad, Yamm, Mot
- child of
- El
Mentioned by
Sources
wikipedia (2)
Source passages
“He was the son of the main god Ashtar”
#3496 · extracted by anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5
“The only sons of El named individually in the Ugaritic texts are Yamm ('Sea'), Mot ('Death'), and Ashtar, who may be the chief and leader of most of the sons of El.”
#11659 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001