Astarte
Astarte is an Ancient Near Eastern goddess worshipped from the Bronze Age through classical antiquity.1
She was the Northwest Semitic equivalent of the East Semitic goddess Ishtar and was associated with love, sex, war, and hunting. Astarte is also known as the Canaanite/Phoenician goddess of love, sex, war, and hunting who developed from the Mesopotamian deity Inanna/Ishtar.
She is usually associated with the storm god Baal but seems to have been much more popular.
She traveled to Egypt through trade where she was adopted as a war deity and consort of Set.
Astarte is the Greek form of the Canaanite Athart and the Phoenician Ashtart, both of which derive from the Akkadian Asdartu referencing the goddess Ishtar.
Hebrew scholars now believe that the goddess Ashtoreth mentioned so often in the Bible is a deliberate conflation of the Greek name Astarte and the Hebrew word boshet, indicating the Hebrews’ contempt for her cult.2