On the Syrian Goddess (Greek: Περὶ τῆς Συρίης Θεοῦ; Latin: De Dea Syria) is a Greek treatise of the second century AD which describes religious cults...

Derceto by the Greeks) was the chief goddess of northern Syria in Classical antiquity. Primarily she was a fertility goddess, but, as the baalat ("mistress")...

treatise On the Syrian Goddess satirizes cultural distinctions between Greeks and Syrians and is the main source of information about the cult of Atargatis...

Press Ltd., London.) Lucian of Samosata (200). De Dea Syria [On the Syrian Goddess]. 4. Witcombe: 8 The Iliad, transl. by R. Lattimore. (1970) University...

On the Syrian Goddess, each year during the festival of Adonis, the Adonis River in Lebanon (now known as the Abraham River) ran red with blood. The myth...

her shrine in Pozzuoli on 5 October 134. This form of the goddess, and the taurobolium, are associated with the "Syrian Goddess", understood as a late...

scholarship she is sometimes conflated or confused with Shalash, a Syrian goddess regarded as the spouse of Dagan. It is accepted that Shala's name has no plausible...

Shalash (Šalaš) was a Syrian goddess best known as the wife of Dagan, the head of the pantheon of the middle Euphrates area. She was already worshiped...

On the Syrian Goddess, fragments of the Phoenician History of Philo of Byblos, and the writings of Damascius). More recently, detailed study of the Ugaritic...

from interaction with the Hurrians. During the Hittite New Kingdom, she was identified with the Hurrian-Syrian goddess Ḫepat and the Hittite Queen Puduḫepa...

period, Edessa was one of the holy sites of the Syrian goddess Atargatis, which also had prominent centers throughout Syria and the Levant in places such...

and other prominent Bronze Age Syrian cities regarded her as the counterpart of Assyro-Babylonian goddess Ištar, and of the Hurrian Ishtar-like goddesses...

that they do indeed eat pork for followers of the Dea Syria (Atargatis, the 'Syrian goddess') in De dea Syria, noted in Jan N. Bremmer, "Attis: A Greek God...

com. Lucian, On The Syrian Goddess, edited and translated by J.L. Lightfoot (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003), 80-3. "Stories of the Prophets | Alim...

Inanna is the ancient Mesopotamian goddess of love, war, and fertility. She is also associated with sensuality, procreation, divine law, and political...

Dialogues translated by C. D. N. Costa (Oxford World's Classics, 2006) On the Syrian Goddess, Jane Lightfoot, 2000, OUP, 1989 See Sidwell pp. xiv–xv Sidwell...

mourning Adonis' death at a shrine inside the temple of Zeus Soter. Also in the second century, On the Syrian Goddess, attributed to Lucian, describes an Adonia...

– Goddess of the eight nomes of Lower Egypt Qed-her – Gate Goddess of Duat Qetesh (Qudshu) – A goddess of sexuality and sacred ecstasy from Syria and...

Hippocrates, and, in Roman times, Aretaeus, Arrian, and the Lucianic or Pseudo-Lucianic On the Syrian Goddess.[citation needed] Ionic acquired prestige among...

explanation, they posit that Pliny or his source misread the name cetus—or that of the Syrian goddess Derceto. "κῆτος" in Liddell, Henry and Robert Scott....

pre-Islamic Arabian goddess worshipped in the Arabian Peninsula before the rise of Islam and the Islamic prophet Muhammad in the 6/7th century. She was...

1900. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. Lucian, The Syrian goddess; being a translation of Lucian's De dea Syria, with a life of Lucian by...

into the Euphrates, and some fishes nudged this to shore, after which the doves sat on the egg until Aphrodite (thereafter called the Syrian Goddess) hatched...

to attack the enemy from behind or to unleash her hasami hound on them. Hipatu or Hiputa was the Late Luwian name of the Hurro-Syrian goddess Ḫepat. She...

Temple of the Winged Lions was the "Eye Baetyl" or "Eye-Idol". Numerous Nabatean bas-relief busts of the Northern Syrian goddess Atargatis were identified...

Satan Bast—Egyptian goddess of pleasure represented by the cat Beelzebub—(Hebrew) Lord of the Flies, taken from symbolism of the scarab Behemoth—Hebrew...

referring to Ninlil as a healing goddess or a myth apparently confusing her with Sudaĝ in the role of mother of Ishum. In Syrian cities such as Mari, Emar and...

lexical lists as the Mesopotamians. The formal structure of the pantheon was most likely based on either Mesopotamian or Syrian theology. The status of individual...

Apollo. In Hierapolis Bambyce, Syria (modern Manbij), according to the treatise De Dea Syria, the sanctuary of the Syrian Goddess contained a robed and bearded...

Latin: [ˈkɛreːs]) was a goddess of agriculture, grain crops, fertility and motherly relationships. She was originally the central deity in Rome's so-called...