Astarte

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Astarte
Goddess of war, beauty, hunting, love
Phoenician statuette figurine of ʿAštart from El Carambolo in Spain
Major cult center	Ugarit, Emar, Sidon, Tyre
Planet	possibly Venus
Symbols	lion, horse, chariot
Parents	Epigeius and Ge (Hellenised Phoenician tradition) Ptah or Ra (in Egyptian tradition)
Consort	possibly Baal (Hadad)[1][2]
Equivalents
Greek equivalent	Aphrodite
Roman equivalent	Venus
Mesopotamian equivalent	Ishtar
Sumerian equivalent	Inanna
Hurrian equivalent	Ishara;[3] Shaushka[4]
Egyptian equivalent	Isis

Astarte (/əˈstɑːrtiː/; Ἀστάρτη, Astartē) is the Hellenized form of the Ancient Near Eastern goddess ʿAṯtart. ʿAṯtart was the Northwest Semitic equivalent of the East Semitic goddess Ishtar.^[5]

Astarte was worshipped from the Bronze Age through classical antiquity, and her name is particularly associated with her worship in the ancient Levant among the Canaanites and Phoenicians, though she was originally associated with Amorite cities like Ugarit and Emar, as well as Mari and Ebla.^[6] She was also celebrated in Egypt, especially during the reign of the Ramessides, following the importation of foreign cults there. Phoenicians introduced her cult in their colonies on the Iberian Peninsula.