Who is Ishtar? A Mesopotamian god
The Mesopotamian god Ishtar or Inanna Who was Ishtar? Ishtar (also called Inanna) was an important god of West Asia. Beginning at least by 3000 BC the Sumerians, the Akkadians, the [...]
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Who is Astarte? West Asian religion
The goddess Astarte in the Late Bronze Age The goddess Astarte As early as about 3000 BC, Astarte was a Semitic goddess of love and fertility. People worshipped her in Mesopotamia and in the [...]
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Who was the Roman goddess Venus? Roman religion
Venus rising out of the ocean, from Tunisia in North Africa (300s AD) The goddess Venus was the goddess of growing things, gardens, love and fertility for the Romans. People sacrificed to [...]
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Who is Actaeon? Greek myth
Deer in the forest Who was Actaeon? Actaeon (ac-TAY-on) was a young man who liked to go hunting in the woods. He spent a lot of time alone in the woods with [...]
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Who was Hestia? Ancient Greek gods
Hestia, home, and the hearth: A woman and a girl cooking Hestia's hardly there Hestia doesn't appear in stories much. We have almost no images of her, either. She is [...]
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Who is Hera? Ancient Greek gods
The Greek god Hera was the sister and wife of Zeus. Greek god Hera Hera is the sister and wife of Zeus (the Greeks did not approve of this arrangement for real [...]
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Who is Gaia? Early Greek gods
Gaia is the earth. In the beginning... Many people in classical Greece believed that at the beginning of time there was only one being, which they called Chaos. (This is not unlike the Jewish [...]
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Who is Artemis? Ancient Greek gods
Artemis is the goddess of the moon. Greek goddess Artemis The Greek god Apollo had a twin sister named Artemis, who was also the daughter of Zeus and the nymph [...]
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Who is Aphrodite? Greek goddess
Birth of the goddess Aphrodite (from Pompeii, about 50 AD) The goddess of love Aphrodite (a-fro-DIE-tee) was the Greek goddess of love. So naturally she was always falling in love [...]
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Athena in Homer’s Odyssey
Athena in the Odyssey: Odysseus and Athena, on a red-figure vase Athena in the Odyssey In the Iliad and the Odyssey, Athena was on the side of the Greeks, because [...]
