How To Use Astarte In A Sentence
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Nevertheless we find in Canaan an Ashtoreth, whom the Greeks called Astarte, as well as a Baal.
Patriarchal Palestine
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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
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In spring 2002 the company resurrected Robert Joffrey's innovative multimedia ballet, Astarte, a psychedelic work that had raised a storm at its premiere.
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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
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But before he could disrobe her, Astarte had risen to her feet and stepped back from the bed.
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The Great Mother was in Phoenicia called Astarte; she was a form of
Myths of Babylonia and Assyria
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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An imperial eagle lectern carved in jet supported upon its open black wings a huge, chained copy of the Codex Astartes.
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[ASTARTE CONCENTRICA] Shell small, thick, triangular, compressed, concentric; furrows close and regular; umbones acute, recurved; margin crenate.
Report of the North-Carolina Geological Survey. Agriculture of the Eastern Counties: Together with Descriptions of the Fossils of the Marl Beds
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In ancient Canaan Ishtar is known as Astarte, and her counterparts in the Greek and Roman pantheons are known as Aphrodite and Venus.
Valerie Tarico: Ancient Sumerian Origins of the Easter Story
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In Syria and Palestine she is known as Astarte, whereas in Cyprus she acquires all the attributes of the goddess of love, Aphrodite. ...
Aphrodite in New York
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Because ofthe Cheney/Bush administration'sillegalneedless warand occupation of Iraq ~ where arrogancefullyembraced incompetenceandwherehundreds of thousands of innocent civilians have been killed and maimed ~Americastarted on the path of its own karmic downfall and Obama has done nothing to stop its momentum with his ongoing militarybuildup in Afghanistan.
The Fourth Stage Of America's Karmic Destiny Is Bankruptcy
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The name "Easter" comes from the Saxon Eostre (Phoenician Astarte), goddess of the Moon and measurer of time.
Daniel Bruno Sanz: Bad Moon, Burnt Qurans, Birthers and Flat Earthers
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When (pip!) a message interfering intermitting interskips from them (pet!) on herzian waves, (call her venicey names! call her a stell!) a butterfly from her zipclasped handbag, a wounded dove astarted from, escaping out her forecotes.
Finnegans Wake
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Asherat, whom the Bible would call Astarte, was the consort of Melqart, the patron god of Tyre - Baal-Melek-Qart-Sor ....
Time Patrolman
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The name Astarte was variously identified with the moon, as distinguished from the sun, or with air and water, as opposed in their qualities to fire.
Moon Lore
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Venus afterwards was called the Assyrian goddess or Astarte, the queen of heaven.
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Amida and Xipetotec and Astarte and Jotunnheim -- in response to calls for support from Security.
Ministry of Disturbance
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The eagle-headed human figure in Assyrian sculptures is no doubt Nisroch, the same as Asshur, the chief Assyrian god; the corresponding goddess was Asheera, or Astarte; this means a "grove," or sacred tree, often found as the symbol of the heavenly hosts (Saba) in the sculptures, as Asshur the Eponymus hero of Assyria (Ge 10: 11) answered to the sun or Baal, Belus, the title of office, "Lord.
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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The ancient name of the city, Ashtaroth-Karnaim, already referred to, seems to indicate a horned Astarte, that is an image with a crescent moon on her head like the Egyptian
Moon Lore
