Crossword-Solution: DERCETO
We have 4 clues for the answer “DERCETO”
| Clue | Answers |
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| ATARGATIS | 1 answer |
| SEMIRAMIS, mother of | 1 answer |
| ATA and Ate | 2 answers |
| GODDESS in form of half-fish | 2 answers |
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Poet’s word, with inverted comma, for the end of the day
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Hint 1 meaning
The old plural of Eye.
Hint 2 anagram
ENE
Hint 3 another clue
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Sentences with DERCETO (5)
Accordingly we shall find that, on the one hand, Venus is immediately connected with the symbolical egg; and, on the other hand, that she is identical with Derceto and Isis, and is declared to be that general receptacle out of which all the hero-gods were produced.
This lady was reputed to be the daughter of Derceto, the fish goddess, whom Pliny identified with Atargatis.
After her death she was worshipped as a dove goddess like "Our Lady of Trees and Doves" in Cyprus, whose shrine at old Paphos was founded, Herodotus says, by Phoenician colonists from Askalon.[474] Fish and doves were sacred to Derceto (Attar),[475] who had a mermaid form.
One half is a woman, but the part which extends from thighs to feet terminates with the tail of a fish."[476] Derceto was supposed to have been a woman who threw herself in despair into a lake.
Some writers connect Semiramis, in her character as a dove goddess, with Media and the old Persian mother goddess Anaitis, and regard as arbitrary her identification with the fish goddess Derceto or Atargatis.