relationship_id,subject_entity_id,relationship_type,object_entity_id,confidence,rationale,source_id,review_status,period_id
503,ENT_CAN_ASTARTE,patron_of,ENT_FERTILITY,medium,Astarte is associated with fertility and sexuality.,SRC_UGARIT_DDD,reviewed,
510,ENT_CAN_ASTARTE,patron_of,ENT_LOVE,medium,Astarte belongs to Northwest Semitic love/fertility goddess traditions.,SRC_UGARIT_DDD,reviewed,
1369,ENT_CAN_ASTARTE,reception_of,ENT_MES_INANNA_ISHTAR,medium,"Astarte as Canaanite reception of Mesopotamian Ishtar; love/war attributes, iconography, and name cognate.",SRC_UGARIT_DDD,reviewed,PER_CAN_BRONZE_AGE
1384,ENT_CAN_ASTARTE,received_as,ENT_APHRODITE,medium,"Phoenician Astarte transmitted to Greek Aphrodite via Cyprus, where the Phoenician cult of Astarte at Paphos was continuous into the Greek period. Herodotus (Hist. 1.105) identifies the Aphrodite sanctuary at Ascalon as the oldest and calls it Phoenician in origin. DDD_BIBLE s.v. ""Astarte"" reviews the Greek reception. Both goddesses rule love, beauty, and warfare; Aphrodite's war aspect (prominent in Cyprus and Sparta) reflects the Canaanite love/war dual role that has no Olympian parallel.",SRC_DDD_BIBLE,reviewed,PER_GRK_ARCHAIC
1518,ENT_CAN_ASTARTE,received_as,ENT_ARA_AL_UZZA,medium,Al-Uzza is the north Arabian continuation of the Semitic love/Venus goddess tradition that runs from Mesopotamian Inanna/Ishtar through Canaanite Astarte. The common elements are: (1) association with the planet Venus as the morning/evening star; (2) love and war function (Al-Uzza is invoked for protection in battle as well as for love); (3) association with sacred trees (Al-Uzza's sanctuary at Nakhla included sacred trees). The Nabataean Al-Uzza is sometimes depicted with the Aphrodite iconography that derives from Astarte. The transmission is most plausible through Phoenician-Arabian contact and the common Semitic religious substrate. Confidence medium: functional and iconographic parallels are strong; direct textual documentation of the Astarte→Al-Uzza transmission is limited.,SRC_HEALEY_NABATAEAN_RELIGION,reviewed,PER_ARA_PRE_ISLAMIC
1539,ENT_CAN_ASTARTE,received_as,ENT_SAB_ATHTAR,low,"The South Arabian Athtar and the Canaanite Astarte/Ugaritic ʿAttar share the same etymological root (the proto-Semitic *ʿAttar- base) and the planet Venus as their primary celestial association. The Ugaritic ʿAttar (masculine) who temporarily sits on Baal's throne and is deemed too small for it (KTU 1.6 I 53-65) represents the masculine form of the Venus deity that South Arabian Athtar preserves. The gender divergence — Astarte is female, Athtar is male — reflects either an early Semitic tradition that was later feminized in the Levantine context, or independent masculine and feminine developments from a common ancestral deity. Cross (1973) treats them as related variants of the same root deity. Confidence low: the name cognate is certain; the precise transmission direction and mechanism are debated.",SRC_CROSS_CANAANITE_MYTH,reviewed,PER_SABAEAN