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The finger-rings were either of gold or silver, and generally set with a stone, which bore a device, and which the wearer used as a seal. The most elaborate male costume which has come down to us is that of a figure found at Golgi, and believed to represent a high priest of Ashtoreth.
And the high places that were before Jerusalem, which were on the right hand of the mount of corruption, which Solomon the king of Israel had builded for Ashtoreth the abomination of the Zidonians, and for Chemosh the abomination of the Moabites, and for Milcom the abomination of the children of Ammon, did the king defile.
Then Horus returned to the Boat of Rā-Harmakhis, in the form of the winged disk which shone with many colours, and said, "Advance, O Rā, and look upon thine enemies who are lying under thee in this land." Rā set out on the journey, taking with him the goddess Ashtoreth, and he saw his enemies lying on the ground, each of them being fettered.
"And I have probably invoked some terrible heathen deity Ashtoreth, or Pugm, or Baal! How awful!" he added, with mock gravity. The girl rose to her feet. "You are laughing at me. The people about here are superstitious, and I am a Celt, too. I belong here." He jumped up with a quick protest. "No, I'm not laughing at you. Please don't think that!
Here was one of the most celebrated of all the temples of Astarte or Ashtoreth, the Phoenician Nature-Goddess; and here ruled for many centuries the sacerdotal class of the Cinyridae. The remains of the temple have been identified, and will be described in a future chapter. They have the massive character of all early Phoenician architecture.
Indeed the Syrian and Jewish rites dated largely from Babylonia. "The Hebrews entering Syria," says Richard Burton "found it religionized by Assyria and Babylonia, when the Accadian Ishtar had passed West, and had become Ashtoreth, Ashtaroth, or Ashirah, the Anaitis of Armenia, the Phoenician Astarte, and the Greek Aphrodite, the great Moon-goddess who is queen of Heaven and Love."
They had some god, or gods, whom they looked to as the head or king of their nation, who had a special favour to them, and would bless and prosper them according as they showed him special reverence, and after that god the whole nation was often named. The Ammonites' god was Ammon, the hidden god, the lord of their sheep and cattle. The Zidonians had Ashtoreth, the moon.
Do you remember? Tell me! Do you remember how you received me?" "Yes, and I shall never forget it," said Hannibal gently. "Those days are my happiest memory." "You received me as if I were a divinity, as if Ashtoreth, who illumines our nights had descended from the sky to give you her protection.
They had many gods, whom they called altogether Baalim, or lords; and goddesses, whom they called Ashtoreth; and they thought that each had some one city or people to defend; and that the Lord Jehovah of the Israelites was such another as these, instead of being the only God of Heaven and earth.
"With these in troop Came Ashtoreth, whom the Phoenicians called Astarté, Queen of Heaven, with crescent horns; To whose bright image nightly by the moon Sidonian virgins paid their vows and songs." "Now haste ye, my handmaidens, haste and see How he sits there and glowers with his head on his knee."
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