. The history of Herodotus. A new English version, ed. with copious notes and appendices, illustrating the history and geography of Herodotus, from the most recent sources of information; and embodying the chief results, historical and ethnographical, which have been obtained in the progress of cuneiform and hieroglyphical discovery . he Moon, Ehea, Diana, Nemesis, andthe Parcse, we have evi-dence from other sources ofthe various characters of thesame Goddess; and an in-scription, found at Caervor-ran (now in the Museum ofNewcastle), thus identifiesthe Syrian Goddess with Cy-17. lllli!^^r§ ^^^
. The history of Herodotus. A new English version, ed. with copious notes and appendices, illustrating the history and geography of Herodotus, from the most recent sources of information; and embodying the chief results, historical and ethnographical, which have been obtained in the progress of cuneiform and hieroglyphical discovery . he Moon, Ehea, Diana, Nemesis, andthe Parcse, we have evi-dence from other sources ofthe various characters of thesame Goddess; and an in-scription, found at Caervor-ran (now in the Museum ofNewcastle), thus identifiesthe Syrian Goddess with Cy-17. lllli!^^r§ ^^^ iTS/i-/7^ ^ bele, the mother of the Gods, with Ceres, andothers: ImminetleoniAirgocoelesti situ, spicifera, justiinventrix, urbium conditrix,ex quis muneribus nossi con-tigit Deos. Ergo eadem materDivum, Pax, Virtus, Ceres,Dea Syria, lance vitam etjura pensitans, in coelo visumSyria sidus edidit, Libyfecolendum ; inde cuncti didi-cimus ; ita intellexit numineinductus tuo Marcus CaeciliusDonatianus, militaris tribu-nus in prrefecto, dono Prin-cipis. Astarte is identifiedwith Atargatis again, by themention of the latter withthe temple that was in Car-naim (Ashteroth-Jiornim) orCarnion, a strong city ofGilead (see 1 Maccab. v. 26, 43; and 2 Mac. xii. 21-26); and withthe Syrian Goddess, by Lucian, as well as Xenophon, mentioning. Figure of Astarte, found in Etruria. Called in the Septuagint version the Atargatcion. Essay I. UNIVERSALITY OF ASTARTE. 451 the sanctity of fish aud pigeons (or doves) among the Syrians.(Cp. Xenoph. Anab. i.) Macrobius (Saturn, i. 30) says, to the great God Adad theone is added the Goddess Atargatis ; these being the Sun andEarth; and her statue stands on lions, as the Phrygians representthe Mother-Goddess Earth. (See below, p. 453.) From thisAdad or Hadad is derived the Syrian name of Ben-Hadad (1 KingsXV. 18). On the Goddess Earth and the bearded Apollo (Baal, orthe Sun) at Hierapolis, see Macrobius (Saturn, i. 19). Both theSyrians and Assyrians consi
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