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Origin of the name ATARGATIS.
Etymology of the name ATARGATIS.
Meaning of the baby name ATARGATIS.
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ATARGATIS. A
Syrian goddess, also called Derketo. Herodotus identifies her with
Aphrodite Urania. She presided over love and generation, and was
regarded as the begetter of the universe, and also as a feminine form of the
deity Hadad. Her chief temples were at Hierapolis (Mabig) and Askalon.
She was born of an egg that had descended from heaven into the Euphrates,
though the Syrian version of the legend was that she had been a woman who
had thrown herself into a lake, and there been transformed into a goddess
after giving birth to Semiramis. She was represented with the head and
body of a woman, and the tail of a fish, and her worshippers consequently
abstained from eating fish. Atargatis was chiefly worshipped at
Askalon. (An Archaic Dictionary, Cooper, 1876).
... In one of the Apocrypha of the Old Testament (II.
Maccabees 12, 26) we read that when Judas Maccabaeus defeated the Ammonites
and Arabians, they took refuge in the Temple of Atargatis. Her worship
is associated with that of sacred waters. At Ascalon there was a pool
near her temple in which were sacred fish. One legend relates that she
and her son plunged into the water and were changed into fish. Another
represents that she "was born of an egg which the sacred fishes found
in the Euphrates and pushed ashore." Compare
further 'Atheh. (An
Encyclopedia of Religions, Canney, 1921)
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