Ishtar in Babylonia was Ashtoreth in Israel, Astarte in Canaan and Carthage, Isis in Egypt, Aphrodite in Greece, Ostara in Norway, and Eastre in Saxony (The Sixth Seal, 313-325, pg. 43).
“Ishtar, or Istar, the name of the chief goddess of Babylonia and Assyria, the counterpart of the Phoenician Astarte.”
“Ishtar,” The Encyclopaedia Britannica, Vol. 14, p. 870.
“Ashtoreth: The name of the supreme goddess of Canaan and the female counterpart of Baal. The name and cult of the goddess were derived from Babylonia, where Ishtar represented the evening and morning stars … From Babylonia the worship of the goddess was carried to the Semites of the West … The cult of the Greek Aphrodite in Cyprus was borrowed from that of Ashtoreth … ”
“Ashtoreth,” International Standard Bible Encyclopedia.
“Within many forms of Wicca the goddess has come to be considered as a universal deity … In this guise she is the ‘Queen of Heaven’, similar to Isis; she also encompasses and conceives all life, much like Gaia. Much like Isis … she is held to be the summation of all other goddesses, who represent her different names and aspects across the different cultures.”
“Goddess,” Wikipedia.
Frigga is identified as the Norse ‘queen of heaven’ by H. A. Guerber, Myths of Northern Lands, p. 51.
“The Saxon goddess Eastre, or Ostara, goddess of spring, whose name has survived in the English word Easter, is also identical with Frigga, for she too is considered goddess of the earth, or rather of Nature’s resurrection after the long death of winter. This gracious goddess was so deeply loved by the old Teutons, that even after Christianity had been introduced they still retained a pleasant recollection of her, utterly refused to have her degraded to the rank of a demon, like many of their other divinities, and transferred her name to their great Christian feast. It had long been customary to celebrate this day by the exchange of presents of colored eggs, for the egg is the type of the beginning of life; so the early Christians continued to observe this rule, declaring however, that the egg is also symbolical of the resurrection.”
H. A. Guerber, Myths of Northern Lands, pp. 57-58.
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