Claudette
Claudette ♀ French: feminine diminutive form of
Claude, now also occasionally used in the English-speaking world. It gained considerable prominence in the 1930s as the name of the French film star Claudette Colbert (1903–96), a Hollywood favourite for many years. Her original name was Lily Claudette Chauchoin.
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Excavations shedding new light on Canaanites
News Wire article from: AP Online; 8/29/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...turned to worship Baal and other Canaanite deities such as the goddess Ashtaroth, inspiring the wrath of their prophets. ``And they forsook the Lord and served Baal and Ashtaroth. And the anger of the Lord was hot against Israel, and he delivered...
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Studies in Hebrew and Ugaritic Psalms.
Magazine article from: The Journal of the American Oriental Society; 10/1/1997; ; 700+ words
; ...Bashan, who was a leftover of the Rephaim (healers, deified ancestors) dwelling at Ashtaroth and Edrei (Deut. 1:4; Josh. 12:4; 13:12, 31). Ashtaroth, mentioned already in the Egyptian execration texts, is modern Tell Ashtarah in...
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Worldly and otherworldly
Magazine article from: The Spectator; 8/30/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...rites or piety. Of this type, Foden selects 'The Grove of Ashtaroth', in which a Rand millionaire takes to atavistic rituals...The Wind in the Portico' is a reworking of 'The Grove of Ashtaroth' without the sex. Foden also prints an 18th-century pastiche...
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New Canaan: Excavations shedding new light on Canaanites
Newspaper article from: Sunday Gazette-Mail; 8/30/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...turned to worship Baal and other Canaanite deities such as the goddess Ashtaroth, inspiring the wrath of their prophets. "And they forsook the Lord and served Baal and Ashtaroth. And the anger of the Lord was hot against Israel, and he delivered...
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 "Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)")
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CANAANITES UNCOVERED EXCAVATIONS SHED NEW LIGHT ON ANCIENT BIBLICAL LAND.(News/National/International)
Newspaper article from: Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO); 8/30/1998; 700+ words
; ...turned to worship Baal and other Canaanite deities such as the goddess Ashtaroth, inspiring the wrath of their prophets. ``And they forsook the Lord and served Baal and Ashtaroth. And the anger of the Lord was hot against Israel, and he delivered...
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 "Messenger-Inquirer (Owensboro, KY)")
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History Hunt: Many Easter symbols pre-date holiday itself.
Newspaper article from: Messenger-Inquirer (Owensboro, KY); 4/8/2007; 700+ words
; ...to the time of the Tower of Babel. She's been worshipped over the centuries as Semiramis, Ishtar, Astarte, Ostera and Ashtaroth or Ashtoreth, according to Christian-Answers.Net. Some medieval Christians thought the hare was an evil omen, and that...
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Sigmund Freud's antique gods.
Magazine article from: Quadrant; 5/1/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...went by other names as well, according to the region and its culture. In Phrygia she was called Cybele; in Phoenicia, Ashtaroth; in Sicily, Prosperina; and in Crete, Rhea. One doesn't need to extend this list, but be assured it goes on. Isis...
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English Attitudes
Newspaper article from: Jerusalem Post; 10/20/1995; ; 700+ words
; ...useful place, while he was also regarded as an "other," who needed to be differentiated and contained. In The Grove of Ashtaroth Buchan paints a fantastic picture of an apparent colonial gentleman obsessed and transformed by his Oriental heritage. In...
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Casting a spell
Magazine article from: The Spectator; 1/19/2008; 700+ words
; ...fretted textures in memorable images such as 'The Insulting Bird', 'Passionate Embrace' (from Manon Lescaut) and 'Ashtaroth' (from Wilde's 'The Sphinx'): marvellous patterns. Five watercolours by Nielsen include 'The Dancing Princess...
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Library acquisitions.
Magazine article from: Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society; 12/1/2004; 700+ words
; ...Adam Lindsay (1833-1870). Poems: sea spray and smoke drift: bush ballads and galloping rhymes; miscellaneous poems; Ashtaroth: a dramatic lyric; the roll of the kettledrum (illustrated). Melbourne: A.H. Massinor & Co., 1894. RARE...
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Ashtaroth
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Ashtaroth , Hebrew plural form of Ashtoreth, the name of the Canaanite fertility goddess and consort of Baal . Her name is vocalized in Greek as Astarte . She was worshiped at various local shrines. There are several references to her in the Bible.
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Adam Lindsay Gordon
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...police and later became famous as a steeplechase rider and horse owner. His works include Sea Spray and Smoke Drift (1867), Ashtaroth (1867), and the vigorous Bush Ballads and Galloping Rhymes (1870). Depressed by debts, he committed suicide at 36...
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Black Mass
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology
...an infant's throat was cut, the blood was poured into the chalice, and prayers were offered to the demons Asmodeus and Ashtaroth. Other obscene rites were associated with the host. At the trial of La Voisin, evidence was given that some Black Masses...
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Astarte
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
...corresponds to the Babylonian and Assyrian goddess Ishtar and who became identified with the Egyptian Isis, the Greek Aphrodite, and others. In the Bible she is referred to as Ashtaroth or Ashtoreth and her worship is linked with that of Baal.
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Astaroth
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Astaroth , variant of Ashtaroth .
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