Ashtaroth

• “Ashtaroth-karnaim," especially when it retains the word Ashtaroth elsewhere, is not easy to say, unless it should have some relation to boughs; as a place thick and shady with boughs.”

  From the Talmud and Hebraica

• “It blasphemes against Astarte, twisting Her name to Ashtaroth as a pun on the Hebrew word for "whore".”

  Wisdom, Justice And Mercy

• “394 In this classical land of Venus the worship of Ishtar – Ashtaroth is by no means obsolete.”

  The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night

• “As to Ashtaroth-karnaim, there is little doubt but that was in the kingdom of Bashan; the larger region being called Ashtaroth, Karnaim is added in a distinguishing limited sense: Deuteronomy 1: 4, "Og, the king of Bashan, which dwelt at Ashtaroth in Edrei.”

  From the Talmud and Hebraica

• “-- These lines were suggested by a passage in an unpublished drama by my friend, the author of "Ashtaroth" {A.L. Gordon} --”

  The Poems of Henry Kendall With Biographical Note by Bertram Stevens

• “If in "Ashtaroth" and "Bellona" we recognise the swing of a familiar metre, in such poems as "The Sick Stockrider" we perceive the genuine poetic instinct united to a very clear perception of the loveliness of duty and of labour.”

  Poems by Adam Lindsay Gordon

• “Man, a gigantic child, must play with Babylon and Ninevah, with Isis and with Ashtaroth.”

  Archive 2009-06-01

• “Anathoth is the plural of the name Anath, just as Ashtaroth (compare Deut 1: 4) is the plural of the divine name Ashtar (Astarte).”

  Anath: Bible.

• “Somewhere down the line, 'right-wing' became a direct synonym for 'nasty,' 'evil,' and 'begone from this place, foul fiend, in the name of Ashtaroth, Prince of Hell' waving crucifix and garlic dramatically in right wing person's pointy-toothed face.”

  Archive 2009-01-01

• “He did not need to know that these gods were called Baal, Osiris, Moloch, Ashtaroth, and the like: probably the less he knew about them the better for his orthodoxy.”

  Nineteen Eighty-four

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