{"id":1206,"date":"2016-09-08T06:19:17","date_gmt":"2016-09-08T10:19:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/revelationrevealed.online\/extras\/?p=1206"},"modified":"2016-09-08T06:19:17","modified_gmt":"2016-09-08T10:19:17","slug":"ishtar-and-her-counterparts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/revelationrevealed.online\/extras\/ishtar-and-her-counterparts\/","title":{"rendered":"Ishtar and her Counterparts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ishtar\u00a0in Babylonia was Ashtoreth in Israel, Astarte in Canaan and Carthage, Isis in Egypt, Aphrodite in Greece, Ostara in Norway, and Eastre in Saxony (<em>The Sixth Seal, 313-325, pg. 43<\/em>).<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cIshtar, or Istar, the name of the chief goddess of Babylonia and Assyria, the counterpart of the Phoenician Astarte.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\u201cIshtar,\u201d <em>The Encyclopaedia Britannica<\/em>, Vol. 14, p. 870.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAshtoreth: 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 \u2026 From Babylonia the worship of the goddess was carried to the Semites of the West \u2026 The cult of the Greek Aphrodite in Cyprus was borrowed from that of Ashtoreth \u2026\u00a0\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.internationalstandardbible.com\/A\/ashtoreth.html\" target=\"_blank\">Ashtoreth<\/a>,\u201d <em>International Standard Bible Encyclopedia<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWithin many forms of Wicca the goddess has come to be considered as a universal deity \u2026 In this guise she is the \u2018Queen of Heaven\u2019, similar to\u00a0Isis; she also encompasses and conceives all life, much like\u00a0Gaia. Much like Isis \u2026 she is held to be the summation of all other goddesses, who represent her different names and aspects across the different cultures.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Goddess\" target=\"_blank\">Goddess<\/a>,\u201d <em>Wikipedia<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Frigga is identified as the Norse \u2018queen of heaven\u2019 by H. A. Guerber, <em>Myths of Northern Lands<\/em>, p. 51.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe 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\u2019s 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.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">H. A. Guerber, <em>Myths of Northern Lands<\/em>, pp. 57-58.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ishtar\u00a0in 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). \u201cIshtar, or Istar, the name of the chief goddess of Babylonia and Assyria, the counterpart of the Phoenician Astarte.\u201d \u201cIshtar,\u201d The Encyclopaedia Britannica, Vol. 14, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[68,79,19],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1206","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-revelation-6","7":"category-revelation-612-17","8":"category-the-seals-opened","9":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/revelationrevealed.online\/extras\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/revelationrevealed.online\/extras\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/revelationrevealed.online\/extras\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revelationrevealed.online\/extras\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revelationrevealed.online\/extras\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1206"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/revelationrevealed.online\/extras\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1207,"href":"https:\/\/revelationrevealed.online\/extras\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1206\/revisions\/1207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/revelationrevealed.online\/extras\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revelationrevealed.online\/extras\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revelationrevealed.online\/extras\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}