Atargatis

Japanese: Atargatis
Atargatis

…A typical example is the cult of Baal Shamin in Palmyra. The mother goddess Atargatis is famous. Religious ceremonies included communion, a New Year's festival, and feasts, processions, and singing and dancing based on sacred marriage (hieros gamos).

From [Mermaid]

…This was further inherited by the Philistines as Dagan, the chief god of the half-man, half-fish. The Syrian moon-god Atargatis (or Derketō) is sometimes depicted as a woman with fish fins. She was in charge of fertility and became the prototype of the Greek Aphrodite and the Roman Venus. …

From [Star]

…The fishes were then said to have been turned into stars for their merit. This is in fact no other than the myth of the Syrian goddess Atargatis, who was identified by the Greeks with Aphrodite. According to this myth, the fishes were turned into stars because they had carried to shore the eggs they had found in the Euphrates, and had then helped Atargatis to be born. …

*Some of the terminology that mentions "Atargatis" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…その代表的な例はパルミュラのバアル・シャミーンBaal Shamīn崇拝である。地母神としてはアタルガティスAtargatisが有名である。宗教儀式には,共食制度,新年祭,聖婚(ヒエロス・ガモス)などに基づく饗宴,行列,歌舞があった。…

【人魚】より

…これはさらにペリシテ人に受け継がれ半人半魚の主神ダガンになった。またシリアの月神アタルガティスAtargatis(またはデルケトDerketō)は魚の鰭(ひれ)を持つ女の姿で表されることがある。この神は豊饒をつかさどり,ギリシアのアフロディテやローマのウェヌス(ビーナス)の原形となった。…

【星】より

…そこでその魚たちが,その功績によって星にされたと物語られている。これは実は,ギリシア人によってアフロディテと同一視されたシリアの女神アタルガティスAtargatisの神話にほかならない。それによると,魚たちが星にされたのは,ユーフラテス川の中で発見した卵を岸に運び上げ,それからアタルガティスが誕生するのを助けたためであったという。…

※「Atargatis」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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