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Jun. 26th, 2007 11:15 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Note to self; look into this.
"Greek historian Herodotus states that Aphrodite was originally an Asian goddess, related to Ishtar (Mesopotamia) and Ashtart/Astarte (Syria and Palestine)."
"Greek historian Herodotus states that Aphrodite was originally an Asian goddess, related to Ishtar (Mesopotamia) and Ashtart/Astarte (Syria and Palestine)."
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Date: 2007-06-26 04:19 pm (UTC)(http://www.alphabetvsgoddess.com/ highly recommended if you haven't read it...there are some others too but my brain is too far gone from the heat to come up with any of them)
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Date: 2007-06-26 04:38 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-06-26 04:58 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-06-27 12:05 am (UTC)Perseus Project is your friend.
It seems to me that Herodotus simply believed that Ishtar and Astarte (and possibly Innanna?) were the all the same Goddess, rather than one having come from the others. Personally, I'm not a fan of syncretism, but the ancients certainly were.