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Ishtar/Astarte: Phoenician goddess, prominent in Sidon, Carthage, and Sicily—wherever the seafaring dwellers of ancient Palestine went. A fertility goddess, the sister and consort of Baal; rituals of worship included prostitution cults and child sacrifice. Ishtar/Astarte antedates and seems to have influenced the Greek reverence for Aphrodite.

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