Astaroth was also the Babylonian Goddess, Ishtar. Babylonian scriptures called her the “Light of the

World,” “Goddess of Goddesses,” and “Bestower of Strength.”

The “Ishtar Gate,” built approximately 575 BCE was the main entrance into Babylon.

It was the eighth of one of eight gates of the inner city. King Nebuchadnezzar II of Babylon dedicated

the Gate to Ishtar. It was one of the most impressive monuments in the ancient Near East. The Ishtar

Gate was decorated with dragons, bulls and lions.

Along with Ea (Satan) and Enlil (Beelzebub), she wound up in the grimiores when judeo/xianity arrived

on the scene as one of the top Crowned princes of Hell. These three were the most popular and well

known deities in the Middle East. Their reputations were destroyed, they were viciously slandered,

blasphemed and Demonized; labeled as “evil.”

“Although Sidon is respected, it could not be forgotten that her goddess was Ashtart, a name the

Israelite scribe wrote with the five consonants „strt, and vocalized them by the vowels of the familiar

Hebrew word for “shame,” making the Sidonian goddess appear in the bastard form Astoreth.”

-Excerpt from “Recovering Sarepta, A Phoenecian City by James B. Pritchard, 1978

“Of the various spellings of the name, Astarte, is found the Tel Amara letters. The Hebrew Astoreth

arose when the rabbinical school of the Massoretes in the sixth century decided to adopt a conventional

system to compensate for the lack of vowels in written Hebrew, and at the same time to insert in the

names of foreign divinities the vowels from the word „boshet‟, meaning abomination.”

-Excerpt from “Who‟s Who Non-Classical Mythology by Egerton Sykes, 1993

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