"The lioness or panther on which she sits (the great Asiatic mother Goddess) remind us of the--lion drawn car of Cybele who was worshipped in the neighbouring land of Phrygia across the Halys. So Adargate the great Syrian Goddess of Herapolis Bambyce, was portrayed sitting on a lioness.....At Babylon image of a Goddess whom the Greeks called Rheu had the figures of two lions standing on her knees. On Egyptian monuments the Semitic God Kadesh represented standing on a lion--Golden Bough. Among the Babylonian and northern Semites she was called Istar (ஈசுவரி) the Astoreth of Bible and Astorate of Phoenicia--The Hittite Empire, P. 204.

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