Astarte Ashtaroth Ashtoreth : Jewish goddess of moon, fertility, beauty, love.
... sweet water wavering by, That murmurs in a channel small Beneath a low grey wall, Then sings amid the fitful rye. Page 186 O sweet grave Siren of the night, Astarte's eremite, Thou feedest every leaf with solemn glee. Lo, the night-winds sigh happier, being chid by thee. ...
... ebbing from her shore The murmur ebbed and died. Like beauty losing maidenhood Astarte debonnair Undid the crocus-coloured snood That bound her glimmering hair. And up the ladder of the moon, As white smoke curls upon a glass, He saw with flakes of glory strewn A radiant figure pass. Astarte from her cloudy chair Paced with her troop of star-sweet girls; Unfilleted, her glorious... burning page Was furrowed with the ploughs of wrath, And thro' his wintry orbs white rage Rolled like the dead sea-froth. His lance poised slanting like a ray Of ominous sunlight fell. Astarte in the milky way Saw death half-risen from hell: And soon the cold hooves of his horse On shivering lilies trod, Till, yellow anguish borrowing force, Childe Thaliard cried on God... To loose a murmuring wind. And in the bridal pomp of hell Walked Beauty hand-in-hand with sin, And Thought, the glorious infidel, A helmèd Paladin; When shutting under cloudy bars Astarte's radiant eye, God sowed with multitudinous stars His peacock in the sky. The diamonds perished from the deep, The moon-tints from the edge, The wrinkled water smoothed in sleep His ...
... Indra (Zeus, Odin) protects the Ram, Agni (Moloch, Thor) the Bull, the Aswins (Castor & Pollux) the Twins, Upendra (Baal) the Crab, Varuna (Poseidon) the Lion, Aditi, called also Savitri or Sita (Astarte, Aphrodite) the Girl, Yama (Hades) the Balance, Aryama (Ares) the Scorpion, Mitra or Bhava (Apollo Phoebus) the Archer, Saraswati called also Ganga (Nais) the Crocodile, Parjanya (Apis) the Jar, Nara ...
... in Crete, Aphrodite in Cyprus. Their role changed when they were incorporated into the male-dominated religion of Zeus. Aphrodite was also known as Ishtar Page 68 in Babylon, and as Astarte in what is now Syria and Palestine. In Sumer she was worshiped as Innana, the great cosmic mother. In the Homeric hymns, which reflect the ideals and beliefs of a society pre- dominantly patriarchal ...
... could seize on the world for their passion and rapture, If there were souls that could hunt after God as a prey for their capture, Such might aspire to possess me. I am Ahana the mighty, I am Ashtaroth, I am the goddess, divine Aphrodite. You have a thirst full sweet, but earth's vineyards quickly assuage it: There must be thoughts that outmeasure existence, strengths that besiege it, Natures ...
... moon. In Ilion she receives a deeper interpretation: she is a power of the future and, with her lightning-tasseled sandals, seems to represent the swift and luminous faculty of intuition. Astarte: The name of the Semitic goddess of fertility, beauty and love. Applied to Greek Aphrodite. Athene: goddess of reason and skill who sprang, unmothered, from the forehead of Zeus. Depicted ...
... in the forest, Birds of the air and the gods in their heavens, but disgraced in the mortal." Then to the discontented rosy-mouthed Aphrodite Zeus replied, the Father divine: "O goddess Astarte, What are these thoughts thou hast suffered to wing from thy rose-mouth immortal? Bees that sting and delight are the words from thy lips, Cytherea. Art thou not womb of the world and ...
... potentiality of bliss; and the earthly rose is yet capable of the forms, colours and perfumes of the Rose of Heaven. "Come, come down to us", the Voices cry. But Ahana is the mighty goddess, she is Ashtaroth, she is Aphrodite. What need for her, then, to return to the earth? What attractions there, what compensations? In answer, the Voices raises a compulsive chorus, greeting her as Diana, Usha, Delight ...
... by beasts in the forest, Birds of the air and the gods in their heavens, but disgraced in the mortal." Then to the discontented rosy-mouthed Aphrodite Zeus replied, the Father divine: "O goddess Astarte, What are these thoughts thou hast suffered to wing from thy rose-mouth immortal? Bees that sting and delight are the words from thy lips, Cytherea. Art thou not womb of the world and from thee ...
... easy to understand this transference as well as that up-raising. The legend-milieu of early Christianity was chockful of divine beings impregnating human women no less than of cultic goddesses: Isis, Astarte, Anahita, etc. The Christian transference was a very refined act which isolated from the mixture of spiritual and physical impregnations current in Egyptian and Greek myths the purely spiritual component ...
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