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	Atargatis - LoveToKnow 1911
		Atargatis appears generally as the wife of Hadad (Baal).
		Atargatis, in the capacity of fro?uovxos, wears a mural crown, is the ancestor of the royal house, the founder of social and religious life, the goddess of generation and fertility (hence the prevalence of phallic emblems), and the inventor of useful appliances.
		In another story she was hatched from an egg found by some fish in the Euphrates and by them thrust on the bank where it was hatched by a dove; out of gratitude she persuaded Jupiter to transfer the fish to the Zodiac (cf.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Atargatis (541 words)

	Atargatis and Ichthys
		Atargatis (pronounced ay-tar-GAY-tis) was an ancient Syrian goddess.
		An ancient writer speaks of a statue of Atargatis with the usual mermaid appearance, but surviving relics show her as a fish with a woman's head and legs.
		Her cult was spread from Syria by sea-going merchants to Greece and Italy and by slaves to the far north of the Roman Empire.
	www.beautiful-mermaid-art.com /atargatis.html (357 words)

	Atargatis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		As a consequence of the first half of the name, Atargatis has frequently, though wrongly, been identified as ‘Ashtart.
		Atargatis generally appears as the wife of Hadad.
		This assessment of the second half of the name Atargatis may miss an important play on words.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Atargatis (1081 words)

	Mermaid Bay (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		It is not unusual or surprising that this moon-goddess was depicted as a mermaid as the tides ebbed and flowed with the moon then as it does now and this was incorporated into the god-like personifications that we find in their art and the ancient literature.
		Atargatis is one of the first recorded mermaids and the legend says that her child Semiramis was a normal human and because of this Atargatis was ashamed and killed her lover.
		Oannes' goddess counterpoint was Atargatis (or, Atergatis, or, in Greece, Derketo) a Semetic moon goddess who became the first official mermaid, being depicted with a fish's tail; fish were sacred to her.
	www.angelfire.com /ma3/fantasia/bay.html (835 words)

	The Syrian Goddess: Index
		Atargatis, 41; goddess of Hierapolis, 1 (see also Goddess); identified with Derceto, 52; resemblance to Kybele, 55; son of, 8; spelling and composition of the name, 21; the priest of, 27
		Hierapolis, 42; bull-god on coins of, 10; central cult of Hittite origins, 12; coins of Atargatis at, 16; images in the sanctuary of, 11; name of the goddess at, 1; site of, 41; the shrine at, 49
		Lions, draw effigy of Atargatis, 56; goddess seated on, 70
	www.sacred-texts.com /cla/luc/tsg/tsg10.htm (1108 words)

	Near-East Goddesses Realm Inanna and Ishtar
		Biblical prophets condemn Her repeatedly under the name Ashtoreth; it is the use of this name, a seeming combination of Asherah and Astarte, which has caused so much confusion for modern scholars.
		Atargatis is one of the independent virgins and her myth speaks of a union with the archetypal vegetation-god and of incest; Ichthys being her son and lover.
		Names for, and/or aspects of, Atargatis are Derceto (Derketo), in Rome she was called Dea Syria, and among the Hittites, Tarkhu.
	inanna.virtualave.net /neareast.html (1611 words)

	JewishEncyclopedia.com - ATARGATIS: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The first element of the name is evidently the Aramean equivalent of Astarte; the second element may be the name of another goddess, Athe or Athah, who has been found in Phenician inscriptions.
		The chief temple of Atargatis in Palestine was the one in Ascalon.
		At Carnaim she had another, and it was in that sanctuary that Judah Maccabeus, without regard for the sanctity of the place, slew the inhabitants that had fled there for refuge.
	www.jewishencyclopedia.com /view.jsp?artid=2072&letter=A (143 words)

	Page/King of Cups and Atargatis/Derketo - Aeclectic Tarot Forum
		"Atargatis is said to have been worshiped at Karnion, the Ashtaroth-Karnaim of the Old Testament.
		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.
		Babylonian mythology tells of two fish that pushed ashore a giant egg, from which emerged the fertility corn-goddess Atargatis and her lover-son Ichthys, who dies and is reborn annually.
	www.tarotforum.net /showthread.php?t=37186 (2844 words)

	The Pinata (No. 276)
		Fish was not eaten by the followers of both Atargatis and Astarte and the sex rites identify both goddess as the one and the same deity.
		Here Atargatis is identified with ‘Athar (= Athtar, Ashtart, Astarte), in the same manner with which she is identified with Aphrodite in the Delos inscriptions (ERE ibid.).
		Pliny identifies Atargatis as Derceto and says that she was worshipped at Hieropolis or Bambyce or Mabog.
	www.ccg.org /english/s/p276.html (2529 words)

	Mermaid Resource Page - mermade
		Atargatis, the mother of legendary Assyrian queen Semiramis, was a goddess who loved a mortal shepherd and in the process killed him.
		Ashamed, she jumped into a lake to take the form of a fish, but the waters would not conceal her divine the little mermaide dvd nature.
		Thereafter, she took the form of a mermaid - human above the waist, fish below, though the little mermade the earliest representations of Atargatis showed her as being a fish with a human head and legs, similar to the Babylonian Ea.
	www.governpub.com /gt/Mermaid.html (1267 words)

	Semiramis of Babylon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The legends ran as follows: Semiramis was daughter of the fish-goddess Atargatis of Ascalon in Syria and was miraculously preserved by doves fed her until she was found and up by Simmas the royal shepherd.
		Afterwards married Onnes one of the generals of Ninus who was so struck by her at the capture of Bactra that he married her after Onnes committed suicide.
		facts are partly to be explained by that according to the legends in her as well as in her disappearance from Semiramis appears as a goddess the daughter the fish-goddess Atargatis and herself connected with doves of Ishtar or Astartë.
	www.freeglossary.com /Semiramis_of_Babylon (952 words)

	Heliogabalus
		Atargatis was the most outstanding of the three and very popular in Syria.
		As Cybele and Atargatis are twins, it is not unlikely that castration was part of the Atargatis cult as well.
		The Syrian Atargatis cult explains the prostitution and castration that are mentioned as aspects of the cultic reforms of Heliogabalus.
	www.livius.org /he-hg/heliogabalus/heliogabalus-religion.html (1764 words)

	Truth About Doves, Semiramis wife of Nimrod at Tower of Babel
		To some she was known as Atargatis, because it was thought that she was half woman and half fish.
		Runners sent by her son had told Atargatis of the proficiency exercised by this young woman at the recent battle of Bactra.
		She had risen early to perform her morning toiletries, eager to learn more of and from the Anunnaki and was interrupted by the massive ebony form of the son of Atargatis.
	www.seekerworld.com /fiction/semiramis.html (2276 words)

	Atargatis - Wasteland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		She has of course the main vocal parts on the entire record, but on some tracks (Selina, Through The Mists Of Oblivion), there are angry vocals sounding like an ogre that feels annoyed and distracted by unwelcome visitors.
		Atargatis are playing gothic and dark metal with a lot of atmospheric passages.
		Compared to their previous self-produced EPs, the hugest progress they have made is the increasing variation and the better song writing.
	www.disagreement.net /reviews/atargatis_wasteland.html (318 words)

	Order of Nazorean Essenes
		Men of the Holy City say that Hera [Atargatis] was voluntary cause thereof, to the intent that Kombabos' goodness should not lie hidden and Stratonike should be punished because she did not build the temple readily.
		Atargatis is seen sometimes riding on a lion, sometimes enthroned between two of them; Hadad (not Baal Kevan) is seated between two oxen.
		Therefore she still stands like this, advising to all who come that they should worship Hera [Atargatis], confessing that she is no longer a goddess, but that other is.
	essenes.net /syriangoddess.html (10948 words)

	ATARGATIS - Online Information article about ATARGATIS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		ATARGATIS, a Syrian deity, known to the Greeks by a shortened See also:
		half of the name, Atargatis has frequently, though wrongly, been identified with Astarte.
		Atargatis, in the capacity of aohwuxos, wears a mural See also:
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /ARN_AUD/ATARGATIS.html (792 words)

	SEMIRAMIS
		The legends ran as follows: Semiramis was the daughter of the fish-goddess Atargatis (q.v.) of Ascalon in Syria, and was miraculously preserved by doves, who fed her until she was found and brought up by Simmas, the royal shepherd.
		appears as a goddess, the daughter of the fish-goddess Atargatis, and herself connected with the doves of Ishtar or Astartë.
		The same association of the fish and dove is found at Hierapolis (Bambyce, Mabbog), the great temple at which, according to one legend, was founded by SemIramis (Lucian, Dc dee Syria, 14), where her statue was shown with a golden dove on her head (33, 39).
	www.exorthodoxforchrist.com /semiramis.htm (613 words)

	The Goddess of the "Temple of the Winged Lions" At Petra (Jordan) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		As in the case of Zeus-Hadad, Glueck urged a syncretism of the Nabataean cult with the Syro-Parthian pantheon in regard to the supreme goddess of Et-Tannur.
		But when the characteristics of Atargatis are compared with the additional data recovered from the Temple at Petra, no direct link between that goddess and those items seems distinctly apparent.
		Hence, the iconography and even attributes of Atargatis may have been borrowed, as so much else was by the Nabataeans, but the persona of Atargatis was not.
	www.acacialand.com /temple.html (5203 words)

	Virtual Karak Resources Project: Historical Study
		Atargatis was one of the most prominent deities of the Nabatean pantheon, according to Glueck (Deities and Dolphins, p.
		Glueck says Atargatis combined with the native deity of Allat when the Nabateans settled down from traveling merchants to become an agricultural civilization.
		Atargatis’ association with grain also fits well with the temple given the fertile grain fields around Dhat Ras.
	www.vkrp.org /studies/historical/dhat-ras/info/temple-deity.asp (284 words)

	Oriental Religions in Roman Paganism: V. Syria
		During the imperial period, however, the slaves were no longer the only missionaries that came from Syria, and Atargatis was no longer the only divinity from that country to be worshiped in the Occident.
		During the second century before Christ the traders of that nation had established settlements along the coast of Asia Minor, on the Piræus, and in the Archipelago.
		The fish was sacred to Atargatis, who undoubtedly had been represented in that shape at first, as Dagon always was.
	www.sacred-texts.com /cla/orrp/orrp09.htm (7806 words)

	Atargatis biography @ Tartareandesire.com
		The band ATARGATIS was founded in the end of 1997.
		The term ATARGATIS is derivated from Greek mythology and represents the name of a Syrian love, fertility and moon goddess.
		After the first concerts in 1999 the debut EP "Alba Gebraich" was soon released.
	www.tartareandesire.com /bands/atargatis.html (226 words)

	Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2000.10.07
		In his brilliant and underrated account of pagan pilgrimage to the great temple of Atargatis in Hierapolis (Manbij) in Syria, Lucian evokes the multicultural constituency of the goddess' adherents.
		Indeed, it was the Christian bishop Alexander of Hierapolis, from the very city of Atargatis now Christianized, who was responsible in the years immediately before the Council of Ephesus in 431 for setting up the Shrine of St Sergius in the Mesopotamian wilderness at Rusafa.
		As Fowden well describes, it was only with the coming of Islam and the conquest of the Roman East that the 'Barbarian Plain' lost its centuries-old distinction as the supreme frontier between worlds which had only been so temporarily breached by Alexander.
	ccat.sas.upenn.edu /bmcr/2000/2000-10-07.html (891 words)

	Cybele and Dagon, Amphibious Gods
		An identification or association was sometimes made between Dagon and the goddess Atargatis (or Atergata), who had the upper body of a woman and the lower body of a fish.
		Atargatis was worshipped in Carnaim, a town in Bashan.
		The fishtail on the goddess was said to represent her journey through the Underworld.
	www.crystalinks.com /cybeledagon.html (1189 words)

	BLABBERMOUTH.NET - ATARGATIS To Support CREMATORY, ILLUMINATE
		ATARGATIS' debut album, entitled "Wasteland", was released in March via Massacre Records.
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	www.roadrunnerrecords.com /blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=57604 (309 words)

	MERMAIDS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		He was not originally a traditional merman, being at first only wrapped in a fish cloak, instead of actually being half-fish, but he evolved into one eventually.
		While Oannes represented the sun and the 'good' aspects of the sea, Atargatis represented its darker, destructive aspects.
		In Greek mythology, we find an actual race of sea-dwelling beings; 300 sea nymphs, called Oceanids, were born of a union between Oceanus and his sister, Tethys.
	www.angelfire.com /ca/MCTP/article11.html (590 words)

	Mermaids in History
		Although Amphitrite is usually portrayed with a fully human form--so she is not a mermaid--in legend she, like Poseidon, was able to travel under the sea as easily as on land.
		One of the earliest mermaids was Syria's Atargatis, loosely related to Astarte and Aphrodite, and perhaps to Pisces.
		Sometimes--but not always--this goddess is portrayed with the lower body of a fish, relating to the cycles of the moon and the tides.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/spirits_magickal_and_mundane/67188 (522 words)

	Pisces Myths
		This ties in with the Piscean age, of 2000 years ago, of Christ the great redeemer and saviour, and also represents religious rituals, which still goes on to to-day in communion, with the eating of bread and wine which represents the blood and body of Christ.
		The earliest Egyptian and Babylonian stories about the heavenly fishes are associated with the Syro-Phonenician fish cult of the great goddess Atargatis, her temples, had pools of fish.
		These fish were sacred, and no one was allowed to touch them, although the fish were ritually eaten.
	www.astroawareness.com /myths/mythpisces.html (343 words)

	mythial tales for Virgo
		She literally hates disorder, as most Virgos do.
		The Syrian Goddess Atargatis was herself a harlot, who served men, and so enhanced and allowed them to be semi-divine - this is where men were initiated.
		The principle of Atargatis is to be true to ones inner-self.
	www.astroawareness.com /myths/mythvirgo.html (664 words)

	ATARGATIS \| Rockdetector
		ATARGATIS, titled after an ancient Syrian goddess of love and fertility and featuring Stephanie Luzie of DARKWELL, came together during 1997 and would debut commercially with the EP 'Alba Gebraich' in 1999.
		ATARGATIS signed to Massacre Records in April 2005.
		ATARGATIS supported CREMATORY and LACRIMAS PROFUNDERE in October 2006 prior to a round of opening slots to ILLUMINATE in January 2007.
	www.rockdetector.com /artist,33975,rdbio.sm?fewerSearchOptions=1 (175 words)

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