Ashtart
Ashtart was a goddess who may have been linked with the local weather god in Emar tradition. Daniel E. Fleming argues that the weather god was linked with Ashtart in local tradition, though ritual texts only acknowledge the pairing with Ḫepat.
↻ synthesized from 10 sources
When
- First attested
- 1500 BCE
- Attested period
- -1500 – 2020
- Historical notes
- Possibly linked with the weather god in Emar tradition during the Late Bronze Age, though ritual texts only acknowledge Ḫepat.
Relationships
- co occurs with
- Bēlet-Apim, Bēlet-Qaṭṭarā, Ceres, Hermes Trismegistus, Athirat, Kothar, Nikkal, Kumarbi, Pišaišapḫi, Kušuḫ, Ea-šarri, Nupatik, Yarikh, Mot, Ḫanat, Shapash, Shalim, Shahar, Kothar-wa-Khasis, Hauron, Tunnanu, Horon, Attapar, Ẓiẓẓu-wa-Kāmaṯu, Šauška, Aštabi, Hutena, Hutellura, Allani, Ninatta, Kulitta, Adamma, Kubaba, Hašuntarḫi, Šaggar, Pinikir, Hadabal, Kura, Barama, Shalash bitinḫi, Goddess of the Night, Ningirsu, Tishpak, Gaṯaru, Milkunni, Mesagunu, Milku, Milkaštart, El, Athtar, Ḫepat, Tarḫunz, Hadda, Shala, Apollo, Hadad, Mars, Dionysus, Osiris, Athena, Kronos, Vesta, Resheph, Sin, Teshub, Shamash, Belet Nagar, Adad, Šimige, Dagan, Yam, ʿAṯtar, Išḫara, Artemis (Diana)
- syncretized with
- Aphrodite
Mentioned by
- El
- Athtar
- Ḫepat
- Tarḫunz
- Hadda
- Shala
- Apollo
- Hadad
- Mars
- Dionysus
- Osiris
- Athena
- Kronos
- Vesta
- Resheph
- Sin
and 10 more
Sources
Source passages
“Daniel E. Fleming argues that he was also linked with Ashtart in local tradition, rather than exclusively with Ḫepat, though he accepts that the ritual texts only acknowledge the latter pair.”
#9642 · extracted by anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5
“In another, a part of a mixed Ugaritic-Hurrian ritual dedicated to the goddess Ashtart, he is placed between Anat and the mountain god Pišaišapḫi.”
#17388 · extracted by anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5
“While the total number of the names invoking Yarikh and adjacent deities is smaller than that of these invoking Baal, Resheph or Shapash, he is nonetheless better attested in this capacity than multiple deities who appear frequently in myths, such as Athirat, Attar, Yam or Ashtart.”
#19568 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001
“Another deity who frequently appears alongside her is Ashtart.”
#23290 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001
“The deities invoked are Baal, Dagan, Anat (paired with Ashtart), Yarikh, Resheph, Ashtart (on her own), Ẓiẓẓu-wa-Kāmaṯu, Milku, Kothar-wa-Khasis and the pair Shahar and Shalim, all of them invoked from their cult centers, some of them located close to Ugarit (Mount Saphon), other on Crete, in Anatolia (Bibitta) or Upper Mesopotamia (Tuttul, Mari).”
#24088 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001