relationship_id,subject_entity_id,relationship_type,object_entity_id,confidence,rationale,source_id,review_status,period_id
2376,ENT_ARA_ATARGATIS,reception_of,ENT_CAN_ASTARTE,high,"Atargatis is the Aramean reception of the West Semitic love/war goddess whose canonical Canaanite/Phoenician form is Astarte (Ashtart). The first element of Atargatis's theonym — Atar — is the Aramaic form of Ashtart/Astarte, making the etymology itself the evidence for the reception. The goddess retains Astarte's core domains (love, fertility, sovereignty) while incorporating additional aspects (sacred fish, prophetic oracles, the galli cult) that develop distinctively in the Syrian Aramean context. The spread of the Atargatis cult across the Hellenistic world replicates the earlier spread of Astarte through Phoenician trade routes. Lipiński (2000) pp. 589-592.",SRC_LIPINSKI_ARAMEANS,reviewed,PER_ARA_IRON_AGE
2377,ENT_ARA_ATARGATIS,syncretized_with,ENT_APHRODITE,high,"Atargatis was routinely identified with Aphrodite in the Hellenistic world. Lucian opens De Dea Syria by explicitly listing the Syrians' identification of ""the goddess"" with Aphrodite among other Greek identifications. The Delos Atargateion (2nd c. BCE) contains dedications to Atargatis and Aphrodite in both separate and combined forms. Coins from Hierapolis and Palmyra depict Atargatis in iconographic modes borrowed from Aphrodite. This is one of the most extensively documented Greek-Oriental deity syncretisms of the Hellenistic period. Lipiński (2000) p. 598; Lucian §32.",SRC_LUCIAN_DEA_SYRIA,reviewed,PER_ARA_IRON_AGE
2378,ENT_ARA_ATARGATIS,aligned_with,ENT_MES_INANNA_ISHTAR,medium,"Atargatis and Inanna/Ishtar are parallel expressions of the Semitic great goddess tradition: both encompass love, fertility, war, sovereignty, and prophecy in a single divine figure; both have lion iconography (the lion throne); both have sacred prostitution traditions associated with their cults; and both are the supreme female divine powers of their respective traditions. The alignment is typological and structural — representing different regional expressions of the ancient Near Eastern great goddess — rather than a direct historical reception. Lipiński (2000) p. 600.",SRC_LIPINSKI_ARAMEANS,reviewed,PER_ARA_IRON_AGE