ATARGATIS

a-tar'-ga-tis (Atargatis; the Revised Version (British and American) wrongly ATERGATIS):

Is stated in 2 Maccabees 12:26 to have been worshipped at Karnion, the Ashtaroth-Karnaim of the Old Testament (compare Ant, XII, viii, 4). The name is found on coins of Membij as `atar-`atah, where `Atar (i. e. Ashtoreth) is identified with the goddess `Atah, whose name is sometimes written `Ati. or `Atah or `Ati was also worshipped at Palmyra, and (according to Melito) in Adiabene.

The compound Atargatis, often corrupted by the Greeks into Derketo, had her chief temples at Membij (Hierapolis) and Ashkelon where she was represented with the body of a woman and the tail of a fish, fish being sacred to her. Herodotus made her the Aphrodite Urania of the Greeks. `Ati may have been originally a Hittite goddess with whom the Assyrian Ishtar (`Atar) came afterward to be identified tory of the kingdom (2 Samuel 14:14). For the legal and geographical information, see CITIES OF REFUGE; HOMICIDE.

A. H. Sayce

The Gods of the Different Nations Varro's Gentile Class. Their ...
... How many have either seen or heard of the Syrian Atargatis, the African Coelestis,
the Moorish Varsutina, the Arabian Obodas and Dusaris, or the Norican Belenus ...
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Footnotes
... Acts 2:9 ff. 26 Probably Palestine is here meant. 27 The great Syrian goddess Atargatis.
28 Reference is obscure. 29 A reference to astrological doctrine. ...
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The Medes and the Second Chaldaean Empire
... Herodotus calls the goddess Aphrodite Urania, by which we must understand Derketo
or Atargatis, who is mentioned by several other classical authors, eg ...
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Atargatis
... Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia ATARGATIS. a-tar'-ga-tis (Atargatis; the
Revised Version (British and American) wrongly ATERGATIS ...
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Ataroth (7 Occurrences)

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Kittim (8 Occurrences)
... Naturally they brought with them their religion, the worship of the moon-goddess
Atargatis (Derceto) being introduced at Paphos, and the Phoenician Baal at ...
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Diana (5 Occurrences)
... In Cappadocia she was known as Ma; to the Syrians as Atargatis or Mylitta; among
the Phoenicians as Astarte, a name which appears among the Assyrians as Ishtar ...
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Carnaim
... In the temple of Atargatis, which was situated here, those who fled from the city
were put to death. It is apparently identical with Ashteroth Karnaim. ...
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At'arah (1 Occurrence)
At'arah. Atarah, At'arah. Atargatis . Multi-Version Concordance At'arah (1
Occurrence). ... (See RSV). Atarah, At'arah. Atargatis . Reference Bible.
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Artemis (5 Occurrences)
... In Cappadocia she was known as Ma; to the Syrians as Atargatis or Mylitta; among
the Phoenicians as Astarte, a name which appears among the Assyrians as Ishtar ...
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Carchemish (3 Occurrences)
... The patron-deity of the city was the Asiatic goddess Atargatis, whose worship, when
the place lost its importance, was removed to the new Hierapolis now ...
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Atergatis
... Aterezaias, Atergatis. Ateta . Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia ATERGATIS.
a-ter'-ga-tis. See ATARGATIS. Aterezaias, Atergatis. Ateta . Reference Bible
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