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Atargatis

deity water Palmyra corroborated · 12

Atargatis is an idol worshipped in a temple in Manbij.

↻ synthesized from 12 sources

When

First attested
1200 BCE
Attested period
-1200 – 2020
Historical notes
Appears in multi-figure representations with Yarhibol at Palmyra.

Relationships

co occurs with
Serapis, Bath Nical, Dionysus, Cetus, Draconcopedes, Gajamina, Merlion, Nure-onna, Tam Đầu Cửu Vĩ, Ông Lốt, Ugajin, Ushi-oni, Zhuyin, Crow, Pan, Silenus, Apis, Dagon, Mnevis, White Elephant, Ljesche, Bijagos, Belti, Semia, Tanit, Inanna, Taratha, Shapash, ʿAṯtart, ʾAṯirat, ʿAnat, Derceto, Stargateis, Persian Artemis, Aphrodite, Bêlit, Ilat, Aphroditos, Uranus, Dione, Aphrodite Urania, Aphrodite Pandemos, Hera, Tyche, Nishra, Nebo, satyr, Fauns, Bel, Baalshamin, Aglibol, Venus, Shaitan, Astaroth, Al-lāt, El, Hecate, Apollo, Ishtar, Zeus, Arsu
allied with
Yarhibol
parent of
Adonis, Ichthys
syncretized with
Astarte, Ištar, Aphrodite, Artemis Azzanathkona, al-Uzzah
consort of
Hadad
manifests as
fish goddess
manifested by
Tyche

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Mentioned by

and 4 more

Sources

wikipedia (9)
  1. Nasr (deity)
  2. List of hybrid creatures in folklore
  3. Yarhibol
  4. Sacred prostitution
  5. Atargatis
  6. Astaroth
  7. Girdle of Aphrodite
  8. Temple of Adonis, Dura-Europos
  9. Temple of Atargatis
encyclopedia (3)
  1. Animal Worship (Encyclopædia Britannica, 11th ed.) (1911)
    peer reviewed
  2. Antioch (Encyclopædia Britannica, 11th ed.) (1911)
    peer reviewed
  3. Aphrodite (Encyclopædia Britannica, 11th ed.) (1911)
    peer reviewed

Source passages

“the temple of Atargatis in Manbij”

#3741 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001

“Atargatis – Human face, fish body.”

#4759 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001

“He may also be accompanied by the goddess Belti (the female equivalent of Bela, equated with Venus) or Atargatis.”

#17637 · extracted by anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5

“Similarly, a temple dedicated to her equated goddess Atargatis in Dura-Europos, was found with nearly a dozen small rooms with low benches, which might have used either for sacred meals or sacred services of women jailed in the temple for adultery.”

#20375 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001

“Athenaeus 8.37, where Atargatis is naively explained to mean "without Gatis", the name of a queen who is said to have forbidden the eating of fish.”

#22871 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001