NOUN
- an ancient Phoenician goddess of love and fertility; the Phoenician counterpart to Ishtar
How To Use Astarte In A Sentence
- Nevertheless we find in Canaan an Ashtoreth, whom the Greeks called Astarte, as well as a Baal. Patriarchal Palestine
- Hence the expression, "image of the grove," is explained (2Ki 21: 7). images -- literally, "images to the sun," that is, to Baal, who answers to the sun, as Astarte to the hosts of heaven (2Ki 23: 5; Job 31: 26). Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
- In spring 2002 the company resurrected Robert Joffrey's innovative multimedia ballet, Astarte, a psychedelic work that had raised a storm at its premiere.
- As Dante started forward, Heather at his side, Astarte blocked his path, panic rippling across her face, flecking her eyes with gold. Etched in Bone
- But before he could disrobe her, Astarte had risen to her feet and stepped back from the bed.
- The Great Mother was in Phoenicia called Astarte; she was a form of Myths of Babylonia and Assyria
- Under the Time Laws I couldn't make physical contact until after breakout, but I swept in behind her on a narrow time-branch that led to the airless moon called Astarte and followed her right to breakout. Timegod's World
- Astarte recognized the uraeus, the vulture of Upper Egypt, and knowing the stranger at her door was Auset, bade the servant to make her welcome.
- 393 I am not quite sure that Astarte is not primarily the planet Venus; but I can hardly doubt that Prof. Max Müller and Sir G. Cox are mistaken in bringing from India Aphrodite the Dawn and her attendants, the The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
- No matter their details or their various and peculiar heavens and hells, myths evolved to try and explain why things move around each other, why the Evenstar, whether you called her Astarte or Lucifer, rose at dawn and returned at dusk, to summon the night of the world. Matthew Ritchie: A Perilous Intellectual High Wire Act