#Atargatis

[tsalmu]

Divine Couple of Adad & Ishtar (Attar)? From the palace of Aramean King Kapara Aleppo, Syria c. 800 BCE Housed in Syria-Aleppo Museum

#aram #aramea #syria #aleppo #baal #baal hadad #Adad #adda #addu #haddu #ishtar #attar #ashtart #astarte #atargatis #syrian gods #aramean gods #polytheism #syrian costume #aramean costume #divine pair #divine couple

[diadyomene]

Eurynome - Inanna - Ishtar - Astarte - Atargatis - Aphrodite - Venus

#inanna #ishtar #astarte #atargatis #aphrodite #venus #eurynome

[jstor]

Oh hey, MERMAIDS!

#mermaid #mermaids #little mermaid #sirens #merfolk #mami wata #Atargatis #jstor daily #jstor #academic research #research

[syrensocks]

Have you ever seen a thicc fish so in love?

@riddleblot did the sketch, I did the rest. Based on a scene from PepperPflaume ‘s fic Atargatis <3

#twisted wonderland #floyd leech #riddle rosehearts #twst #floyd x riddle #フロリド #atargatis #syrendraws

[dea-syria]

“I,” said a voice—“I am Desire. In Greece I am revered, and there I am Aphrodite. In Italy I am Venus; in Egypt, Hathor; in Armenia, Anaitis; in Persia, Anâhita; Tanit in Carthage; Baaltis in Byblus; Derceto in Ascalon; Atargatis in Hierapolis; Bilet in Babylon; Ashtaroth to the Sidonians; and Aschera in the glades of Judæa. And everywhere I am worshipped, and everywhere I am Love. I bring joy and torture, delight and pain. I appease and appal. It is I that create and undo. It is I that make heaven and people hell. I am the mistress of the world. Without me time would cease to be. I am the germ of stars, the essence of things. I am all that is, will be, and has been, and my robe no mortal has raised. I breathe, and nations are; in my parturitions are planets; my home is space. My lips are blissfuller than any bloom of bliss; my arms the opening gates of life. The Infinite is mine. Mary, come with me, and you shall measure it.”

--Edgar Saltus, "Mary Magdalen"

#aphrodite #venus #hathor #anaitis #anahita #tanit #baaltis #derceto #atargatis #bilet #ashtaroth #asherah #universal #love #stars #world #eternal #space #life #infinite

[thegodwhocums]

Atargatis, Yale Museum

#personal #deities #it's the mural crown for me #syncretism #cybele #art #atargatis

[elizabeth-halime]

#history #Asherah #Athirat #Anat #Atargatis #Nikkal #Marah #Kadesh #Kades #Quadshu #Baalat #Pidraya #malidthu #Koshartu #canaanite mythology #Canaanite goddess #Mythology #Goddesses

[burn-ingseraphim]

🌞

#Ahriman #Atargatis #astrology #spirituality #sumerian #roman #and more #i follow ahriman btw :)))

[rainbowfiredumpster420]

I drew this as a belated Mother’s Day gift, but it’s also for MerMay month because mermaid.

Here is Atargatis, or at least my depiction of her in a really old story of mine. According to the internet, she is the following:

Atargatis is said to be the mermaid who was the original inspiration for all mermaid stories. She was an Assyrian Goddess. She was said to be the goddess of the moon, fertility and water and was worshipped 3000-4000 years ago in ancient Assyria and later all over the Mediterranean.

I gave her a different body type compared to most characters I’ve designed in the past. Hers is curvier and thicker, which is appropriate to her mother goddess status.

This was finished in two days, starting from 5 PM to 8 AM. I was pretty exhausted by the time I was done. I’m glad I managed to make it in time for MerMay and caught up to Mother’s Day even though it was belated. I had fun designing her tail. Someday I’ll make a full body rendition of her with her tail in complete display.

#mermaid fanart #mermay month #mermaid #atargatis #sea goddess #Portfolio ni Atis #mermay 2023 #merfolk #merfolk art #clip studio art

[kordiallykhaotic]

Sofishticated Antiquity

MerMay Day 23: Tradition

Went historical with this one! Based today’s prompt off of one of earliest mermaid stories, the Assyrian goddess Atargatis!

She may or may not have accidentally killed her mortal shepherd lover (via divine lovemaking) and in her grief cast herself into a lake making herself into a sea creature.

#mermay #mermay 2023 #day 23 #tradition #assyrian #mythology #atargatis #mermaid #mermaids #mermaid art #mermay art #art #digital art #illustration #illustrators on tumblr #procreate #procreate art

[kitzatara]

Mermay Day 9! “Heartbreak”

This piece is a depiction of Atargatis, one of the first and oldest mermaid stories in recorded history. According to the legend she accidentally killed her lover, and in sorrow and shame she flung herself into the ocean. There she transformed into a fish, but the sea could not hide her beauty and the transformation only went half way. I thought it fitting the mermaid goddess fit the theme

#mermaid #atargatis #mythology #assyrian #babylonian #mermay #mermay 2023 #drawmermay2023 #drawing #sketch #artist #art #my art

[tsalmu]

Atarata (Atargatis/Astarte) & (Baal) Hadad

Shamash (Sun God) & Syn (Moon God)

Unknown Deities. Goddess Second-from-left may be Kubaba?

Aramaic names of deities:

a) HDD “Hadad”

b) ’TRT “’Attar‘ata”

c) Ṣ(YN)? “Sîn”

d) MK[N]-’BW[’] R[’]Š TŠḤ[N] “Mukīn-abūa the head (re’š) of Tušhan”

The Başbük Rock Wall Panel

Başbük, Türkiye

c. 750 BCE?

Wall picture of several Syro-Anatolian deities.

Drawings by Selim Ferruh Adalı

Source:

ANE Today (News Article)

Cambridge Core (Original Article from Cambridge University Press)

#shamash #sin #yarach #yarich #baal #hadad #adad #baal hadad #astarte #ashtart #atargatis #atarata #syn #kubaba #canaan #canaanite gods #phoenicia #phoenician gods #aram #aramean gods #syria #syrian gods #levantine gods #mesopotamia #mesopotamian gods #pagan gods #polytheism #archeology #magic #witchcraft

[diadyomene]

#aphrodite #venus #atargatis #derceto #mermaid #sea fables explained

[katherinehillierillustration]

MythologyMermay day 8 : ATARGATIS

Atargatis is an ancient fertility deity of Assyrian religion. As with most very very very old east Mediterranean gods, there's a lot of conflation between mythologies, and she’s also known as Aphrodite, Amphirite and a whole bunch more.

Atargatis is also considered to be history’s first ever mermaid!

She fell in love with a peasant man and they had sex, but he couldn't handle her goddess sex powers, so he died. Miserable Atargatis gave birth to their daughter on the beach, then flung herself into the ocean, where she lives eternally as a fish-tailed woman.

You can get prints of my mermay art here

Feel free to join in with #mythologymermay2022 ! Use the hashtag and I’ll share all the artwork I see.

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#atargatis #mermaid #assyrian #mythology #mermay #mythologymermay2022 #goddess #sea goddess

[apollo-gate]

Atargatis

#character reference #atargatis #AttinaRo #attina #AtargatisRO

[dea-syria]

In a class of legends, "specially connected with the worship of Atargatis", wrote Professor Robertson Smith, "the divine life of the waters resides in the sacred fish that inhabit them. Atargatis and her son, according to a legend common to Hierapolis and Ascalon, plunged into the waters--in the first case the Euphrates, in the second the sacred pool at the temple near the town--and were changed into fishes". The idea is that "where a god dies, that is, ceases to exist in human form, his life passes into the waters where he is buried; and this again is merely a theory to bring the divine water or the divine fish into harmony with anthropomorphic ideas. The same thing was sometimes effected in another way by saying that the anthropomorphic deity was born from the water, as Aphrodite sprang from sea foam, or as Atargatis, in another form of the Euphrates legend, ... was born of an egg which the sacred fishes found in the Euphrates and pushed ashore."

--Donald A. Mackenzie, "Myths of Babylonia and Syria"

#atargatis #water #mother and son #fish #egg