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Britannica 11th
Encyclopaedia Britannica · 11th edition
Atargatis
Britannica 11thATARGATIS, a Syrian deity, known to the Greeks by a shortened form of the name, Derketo (Strabo xvi. c. 785; Pliny, Nat. Hist. v. 23. 81), and as Dea Syria, or in one word Deasura (Lucian, de Dea Syria). She is generally described as the " fish-goddess." The n ...
Vol. 2, pp. 823-823
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Animal Worship
Britannica 11th... mples of Apollo and Aphrodite were sacred fish, which may point to a fish cult. Atargatis is said to have had sacred fish at Askdon, and from Xenophon we read that the fish of the Chalus were regarded as gods. Goat. — Dionysus was believed to take the form of ...
Vol. 2, pp. 50-52
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Atalanta
Britannica 11th... she was suckled by a she-bear, and then saved by huntsmen, among whom she grew ATARGATIS— ATCHISON up in be skilled with the bow, swift, and fond of the thane, liL.r the virgin goddess Artemis. At the Calydonian boar-hunt her arrow* were the first in hit ihr ...
Vol. 2, pp. 822-822
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