Crossword-Solution: ATARGATIS
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| Clue | Answers |
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| Derceto | 1 answer |
| ATA and Ate | 2 answers |
| GODDESS in form of half-fish | 2 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
AERET
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with ATARGATIS (5)
During the Captivity, under the influence of the worship of the goddess Atargatis, they transferred the ceremony to the Friday, the eve of the Sabbath, a position which it has retained to the present day.
The original source of such a symbol is most probably to be found in the belief, referred to in a previous chapter,[45] that all life comes from the water, but that a more sensual and less abstract idea was also operative appears from the close connection of the Fish with the goddess Astarte or Atargatis, a connection here shared by the Dove.
This lady was reputed to be the daughter of Derceto, the fish goddess, whom Pliny identified with Atargatis.
The Greek Ninus is regarded as a male form of her name; like Atargatis, she may have become a bisexual deity, if she was not always accompanied by a shadowy male form.
Pliny identified that deity with Atargatis of Hierapolis.[466] In Babylonia the fish goddess was Nina, a developed form of Damkina, spouse of Ea of Eridu.