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A Goddess of the Old Religion.

2006-08-23 14:45:36 · 9 answers · asked by Nicolette 6 in Society & Culture Religion & Spirituality

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ashtoreth a sementic goddess of love and fertility

2006-08-23 14:50:02 · answer #1 · answered by tyrantblade 2 · 0 0

Oh dear god, girl. Ashtaroth is a VERY BAD demon. Plancy's dictionnaire infernal. He's one of the higher demons of hell. I have a picture somewhere but couldn't find it online. I know his seal is readily available and there are various sites declaring that jezebel introduced his worship. It is not good. I promise you that you should NOT summon him OR worship him because there is a slight case of mistaken identity. As in this is a gigantic winged beast that commands legions of demons in hell. I would advise against it because he will send a lacky to terrorise you. (They like doing that). Please be careful. You have no idea how common demons are and it could and can happen to you. Stay away from it. They don't make deals they don't respond to worship. All they want is to perform what they do best.

Astarte in the old testament was called athoreth which may be the cause of confusion. She was a fertility goddess and is related to the capricorn symbol which the churched have so lovingly denominated as the symbol of the beast (not true)

As for Baal, well he's worse than Ashtaroth. he's basically a three headed spider. http://content.answers.com/main/content/wp/en/thumb/3/30/250px-Bael.jpg

Anyway if you need any help with that kind of stuff please feel free to e-mail me melani_stott@yahoo.co.uk. I can put you in contact with other people if you don't agree with me but I'd rather you ask than do something which could put you in danger or those around you.

2006-08-27 18:37:19 · answer #2 · answered by ? 3 · 0 0

ASHTAROTH, or ASTARTE, a goddess of the
Zidonians. The word Ashtaroth properly signifies
flocks of sheep, or goats; and sometimes the grove, or
woods, because she was goddess of woods, and groves
were her temples. In groves consecrated to her, such
lasciviousness was committed as rendered her worship
infamous. She was also called the queen of heaven;
and sometimes her worship is said to be that of ‘‘the
host of heaven.’’ She was certainly represented in the
same manner as Isis, with cow’s horns on her head, to
denote the increase and decrease of the moon. Cicero
calls her the fourth Venus of the Syrians. She is
almost always joined with Baal, and is called a god,
the scriptures having no particular word to express a
goddess.
It is believed that the moon was
adored in this idol. Her temples
generally accompanied those of the
sun; and while bloody sacrifices or
human victims were offered to Baal,
bread, liquors, and perfumes were
presented to Astarte. For her, tables
were prepared upon the flat terraceroofs
of houses, near gates, in porches,
and at crossways, on the first day of
every month; and this was called by
the Greeks, Hecate’s supper. Solomon,
seduced by his foreign wives,
introduced the worship of Ashtaroth into Israel; but Jezebel, daughter of the king of Tyre,
and wife to Ahab, principally established her worship.
She caused altars to be erected to this idol in every
part of Israel; and at one time four hundred priests
attended the worship of Ashtaroth, I Kings xviii. 7.

2006-08-23 22:27:00 · answer #3 · answered by lastdayswarning 1 · 0 0

to why you would ask i have no idea, but knowledge is knowledge i guess...here it goes

Also known as Astaroth, Ashtaroth was usually depicted as an ugly demon riding a dragon and carrying a viper in his left hand. He was the Treasurer of Hell, and was also the Grand Duke of its western regions. He encouraged sloth and idleness, or lazyness and idle worship...

Ashtaroth was one of two demons prayed to in the Black Masses of Catherine Monvoisin, Madame de Montespan (mistress of Louis XIV), and a 67-year-old priest by the name of Guibourg. (The other demon prayed to was Asmodeus.)

In 1678, Nicolas de la Reynie, Louis XIV's Lieutenant-General of Police, arrested these people along with 215 priests, sorcerers, and fortune tellers who had dabbled in black magic. 110 of these people were tried and sentenced. Some were hanged, some were exiled, and some were imprisoned for life. Of Guibourg, La Reynie said:

A libertine who has travelled a great deal...and is at present attached to the Church of Saint Marcel. For twenty years he has engaged continually in the practice of poison, sacrilege and every evil business. He has cut the throats and sacrificed uncounted numbers of children on his infernal altar. He has a mistress...by whom he has had several children, one or two of whom he has sacrificed.... It is no ordinary man who thinks it a natural thing to sacrifice infants by slitting their throats and to say Mass upon the bodies of naked women.
It seems quite likely that Madame de Montespan was one of the living altars for Guibourg's masses. In one such mass, "at the moment of the bread and wine a child's throat was cut and its blood drained into the chalice. Simultaneously, a prayer was recited to the demons Ashtaroth and Asmodeus: 'Prince of Love, I beseech you to accept the sacrifice of this child...that the love of the King may be continued...'"

Shortly before the arrest of Guibourg and his cohorts, a sorcerous attempt was made upon the life of Louis XIV. An altered consecrated wine was prepared to be slipped into Louis XIV's food. In the wine was dried powdered bats, menstrual blood, semen, and, "to give consistency," flour.

2006-08-23 21:51:28 · answer #4 · answered by elitewolverine 1 · 0 0

I don't know much about this other than there is a reference to it in the Final Fantasy series which relies alot on mythology for their storytelling.

Have you tried Wikipedia?

2006-08-27 08:30:54 · answer #5 · answered by akashan 2 · 0 0

Astoroth is the name of a demon.

2006-08-23 21:50:23 · answer #6 · answered by kingofnarniaforever 4 · 1 0

astoroth is a charachter in soulcalibur

2006-08-23 21:53:07 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

Dont go there

2006-08-24 10:35:39 · answer #8 · answered by Ben 3 · 0 0

Sorry don't know who this is?

2006-08-23 21:50:13 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

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