Astarte is from the Phoenician *ʿAštart* — the goddess of love, beauty, fertility, and war. **A modern revival name in the broader vintage-ancient aesthetic**. **Astarte in Phoenician/Canaanite mythology** — **the foundational goddess of love and war across ancient Phoenicia, Canaan, and the broader Levant from c. 1500 BCE-100 CE**; her cult was the dominant feminine divinity across Phoenician city-states including Tyre, Sidon, Byblos, and Carthage; her name appears throughout the Hebrew Bible (as Ashtoreth — referenced in Judges, 1 Samuel, and 1 Kings as a rival goddess to Yahweh); cognate with the Mesopotamian Inanna/Ishtar, and the foundational precursor of the Greek Aphrodite, Roman Venus, and Egyptian Isis; **the iconic Lady of Galera (now at the National Archaeological Museum of Spain) is one of the most-celebrated Phoenician sculptural depictions of Astarte**, dating to the 7th century BCE. **Astarte (Carthaginian and Roman heritage)** — central goddess at Carthage alongside Tanit; her cult survived for 2,000+ years across the Mediterranean. **Princess Astarte** — modern revival naming. **Astarte (the asteroid)** — minor planet 672 Astarte discovered 1908. **Crowley's *Liber Astarte* (1909)** — Aleister Crowley's magical text. The Astarte name reflects the broader 2020s American taste for ancient Mediterranean goddess names alongside Ishtar, Inanna, and Astarte.
Featured throughout ancient Mediterranean heritage.
Astarte reduces to three.