Talk:Astaroth

Astaroth is a GODDESS. Some of her many names include: Aphrodite, Anat, Artemeis, Ashteroth, Ashtoreth, Astarte, Hathor, Inanna, Ishtar, and Juno.

“And it came to pass afterwards that Eleazar the high-priest the son of Aaron died, and was buried in Gabaar of Phinehas{gr.Phinees} his son, which he gave him in mount Ephraim. In that day the children of Israel took the ark of God, and carried it about among them; and Phinehas{gr.Phinees} exercised the priest's office in the room of Eleazar his father till he died, and he was buried in his own place Gabaar: but the children of Israel departed every one to their place, and to their own city: and the children of Israel worshipped Ashtaroth{gr.Astarte}, and Ashtaroth{gr.Astaroth}, and the gods of the nations round about them; and the Lord delivered them into the hands of Eglon{gr.Eglom} king of Moab and he ruled over them eighteen years.” Joshua 24:33 Septuagint (^[1] )

“A’ STAROTH, (the plural of Astarte) or Ashtaroth, or Ashtoreth, a GODDESS of the Sidonians. 1 Kings xi.5. Ashtaroth, in the Syrian language, signifies sheep; particularly ewes, when their dugs are turgid, and they give milk. From the fecundity of these animals, which in Syria continue to breed a long time, the Sidonians formed the notion of a deity, which they called ASTAROTH, or Astarte. Astarte, the singular number of ASTAROTH, a GODDESS of the Phoenicians. This deity is in Scripture (Jer. Xiv.18) called the QUEEN of Heaven…Solomon had many wives that were sorceresses, was prevailed upon them to introduce the worship of this GODDESS into Israel… ” ^[2]

“Moreover, the universe of the ancient religion of Mesopotamia was conceived as being under the control of Baal, the Father God and ASTAROTH, the MOTHER GODDESS. Baal, the Sun-god, was a hot, active, light, immaterial and positive principle; ASTAROTH, the Moon-GODDESS, was cold, passive, heavy, material and negative.” ^[3]

“The Sumerian goddess Inanna, better known by her Semitic name Ishtar, was worshipped all over the Western Lands under different local cultic names. To the Phoenicians and Philistines, she was Astarte; to the Canaanites she was Asherah. She appears in the Old Testament under these names as well as ASTORETH and Anat. These were all permutations of the name Ishtar, the fertility GODDESS and “Queen of Heaven” of the Semitic people.” “The worship of Astarte was quite common among the Hebrews and appears in the form of ASTAROTH. In Joshua 24:33 (a verse which does not appear in the King James version but is found in the Hebrew text) she is called Astarte, the “majestic lady” or Astarten kai Astaroth. ASTAROTH is a plural form of majesty and it is OBVIOUS that the word applies to Astarte.” ^[4]

“Venus Anadyomene…Astaroth GODDESS of the Zidonians” (Page 33 Catalogue of the Statues and Busts in Marble and Casts in the National Gallery of Victoria ^[5]

“ASTAROTH, or Astoreth, or Astarte, a celebrated Phoenician GODDESS….She was GODDESS of the woods, the celestial GODDESS, and was also called the “Queen of Heaven” ^[6]

Hebrew Word 6253. Ashtoreth "Ancient Semetic goddess; Phoenician diety" "Probably for ashtrah; Ashtoreth, the Phoenician GODDESS of Love" ^[7]

“Perhaps some light may be thrown upon its history by the observations of Adrichomius,* who speaks of the fane constructed by Solomon, upon the top of the Mount of Olives, for the worship of ASTAROTH, the idol of the Sidonians. The Venus of Paphos was represented by a symbol which had the peculiar form of this crypt; that is to say a eone; but the Phoenician ASTAROTH, and the Paphian GODDESS, were one and the same divinity.” ^[8]

“ASTAROTH, or Ashtaroth, in antiquity, a GODDESS of the Sidonians. “ “Astarte, the Singular of ASHTAROTH, a GODDESS of the Sidonians, and called, in scripture, the Queen of Heaven.” ^[9]

“GODDESS known as Ester, Esther, Ishtar and/or ASTAROTH” ^[10]

“Ashtaroth, and (once) ASTAROTH a city on the E of Jordan…doubtlessly so called from being a seat of the worship of the GODDESS of the same name. “Ashtoreth, [and once ASTARTE, (aka ASTAROTH)] the principal FEMALE divinity of the Phoenicians, as Baal was the principal MALE divinity….In the earlier books of the o.t. only the plural, Ashtaroth occurs, and it is not till the time of Solomon, who introduced the worship of the Sidonian Astarte, and only in reference to that particular GODDESS, Ashtoreth of the Sidonians, that the singular is found in the O.T.” ^[11]

“In later Jewish mythology, she [Astarte] became a female demon of lust; for what seems to be the use of the Hebrew plural form of ʻAštārōṯ in this sense, see Astaroth). ^[12]

“The term Astaroth is derived from the name of the Semitic Goddess Astarte, a goddess who appears in Ugaritic, Phoenician, and Akkadian sources. She is a cognate of the Babylonian goddess Ishtar. Because she is connected with forbidden things in the bible, namely with religions that were viewed as false and heretical by the ancient Israelites, Astarte cum Astaroth was demonized along with a host of other foreign deities. She, now a he, has remained a demon ever since – at least as far as most of Western civilization is concerned.” ^[13]

“A good example is the Babylonian mother goddess, Ishtar. A beneficent deity of a very loving and generous nature, Ishtar, also seen as a moon goddess, first became Astarte, then ASTAROTH, one of the fallen angels and one of the highest demons in the hierarchy of hell.” ^[14]

“She [Venus, the Goddess of Love] was generally worshipped in the territories of Israel by the name of Astarte, or ASTAROTH, or Asterah, or the Goddess of the Groves.” ^[15]

"Juno, therefore, a translation of the Greek Hera, chief of the Goddesses in Greco-Roman pantheon, was the Roman equivelant of the Phoenician supreme GODDESS, ASTAROTH, known to us by the Greek name of ASTARTE, the goddess of fertility for the Semitic peoples." ^[16]

“Evidently, the adaptation of the roles and statutes of divine figures extends over time and space, and across the entire spectrum of deities, whose fate at the hands of popular belief and official doctrine cannot be predicted. Astarte is one case in point of a goddess who has managed to keep a hold on the minds of man from roughly the fifteenth century BC right through to the Middle Ages and beyond: (s)he will be highly instrumental in the destruction of Alexander VI in The Devil’s Charter. The name is found in Ugaritic (‘ttrt for Athtart[u]), Phoenician (‘štrt for Ashtart), Hebrew (Aštōret), Egyptian (‘strt, ‘strt, or istrt) and Greek (Astartē), and consequently related to, and the counterpart of, the Akkadian Aš-tar-[tum?] for Ishtar, the goddess of love and war. She appears to be the Evening Star, Venus, deified. In Ugarit, as well as in Egypt, she is seen as an armed consort of Baal, although she does not seem to have had a relationship with him. In Egypt, where Seth and Baal are conflated, Seth takes the daughters of Re, namely Anat and Astarte, as his wives. Here, Astarte is a war-goddess. She was also an important female deity in Phoenicia. The goddess further extends her mighty arms into various other Mediterranean cultures: “she became assimilated with the Egyptian deities Isis and Hathor, and in the Greco-Roman world with Aphrodite, Artemis, and Juno, all aspects of the Great Mother.” The Aramaic goddess Atargatis also takes on traits of Ashtart, who retains a life of her own, too. As she is a rival deity to Yahweh, it does not come as a surprise that the Hebrews did not flatter her greatly: Hebrew scholars now feel that the GODDESS Ashtoreth mentioned so often in the bible is a deliberat3e conflation of the Greek name Astarte and the Hebrew word boshet, “shame,” indicating the Hebrew contempt for HER cult. Ashtaroth, the plural form of the goddess’s name in Hebrew became a general term denoting GODDESSES and paganism.” “It is in this latter form that the name eventually reappears as the one of one of the principal, now male, demons frequently found in occult literature of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance." ^[17]

SnowWhite21 (talk) 23:45, 23 December 2017 (UTC) SnowWhite21 SnowWhite21 (talk) 23:45, 23 December 2017 (UTC)

— Preceding unsigned comment added by SnowWhite21 (talk • contribs) 23:33, 23 December 2017 (UTC)

ASTAROTH was a GODDESS until the NEW IDEA of HER being a Male Demon came about in 1458 it would be fitting to have ONE ARTICLE that covered both the GODDESS AND the NEW proposed idea of Astaroth being a Male Demon.

Quote from Current Wikipedia Page: The name "Astaroth" as a male demon is first known from The Book of Abramelin, purportedly written in Hebrew c. 1458, and recurred in most occult grimoires of the following centuries. Astaroth also features as an archdemon associated with the qliphoth (adverse forces) according to later Kabbalistic texts. ^[1]

SnowWhite21 (talk) 01:19, 20 January 2018 (UTC)

Astarte and Astaroth indeed do have a relationship. But that does not mean they don't have distinctive natures. This is very much a case of mythological assimilation. Similar to Baal and Bael (demon), who have separate wikipedia pages for a reason. They are considered different beings, despite the fact that the demon is very much inspired by the god. Thus even though one is inspired by the other, they should be explored separately as separate ideas. Although their pages can and should reference each other as related ideas. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 73.228.134.47 (talk) 13:33, 22 May 2020 (UTC)

In the Book of Joshua it is a city. 89.134.17.190 (talk) 19:20, 2 February 2024 (UTC)

Cities in the Book of Joshua does not mention a city named "Astaroth" Mr Fink (talk) 21:09, 2 February 2024 (UTC)

Maybe he means Ashteroth Karnaim Simple non combat (talk) 18:09, 22 November 2025 (UTC)

you can find a link between the 2 Heinrich Wendt (1608-1683) : . Georg Olms Verlag, Hannover 1988 Wendt say Bonifatius destroyes Astaroth there in Osterode (page 42 and in page 720 he talkl about thlat there was an temllple where the castle was build on) but I donnt think he(bonifatius) get her totally destroyd

Caspar Calvör:: Geschichte des Alten Niedersachsen tell us so say it Heinrich Pröhle: . Herrmann Mendelsohn, 1859. = a Temple of the Demon/God under the old Castle Hope thats helpfull :) I think shes getting stronger if we talk about her Astaroths Krieger (talk) 21:21, 24 November 2025 (UTC)

Bonifatius he killed the Dona-Eiche, a World-Tree (Weltenbaum/Tree of Live), and the attacked Gods/Demons in al of Germany in the middleage, you can read it for example in Wendts Chlronic on 4 pages or in other texts Astaroths Krieger (talk) 21:54, 24 November 2025 (UTC)