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Throughout the Near East and the Aegean, including in Mesopotamia, Crete, Greece and Canaan, the son-god was often represented as a young bull or calf, which was natural since the Great Mother was associated with the cow. The process of death and rebirth was reenacted in annual rituals in which the bull (son) was slain and sacrificed so it could return to the Great Mother for rebirth and so the growing season could successfully begin anew. Another animal that acquired this meaning was the serpent, since serpents are chthonic creatures that hibernate in the winter and reappear in the spring when the plants come alive.
Astarte and her name are derived from the Babylonian and Assyrian goddess Ishtar. In Ugarit she was the daughter of El and Asherah, so her brother was Baal, and apparently she (and also Anat) was his consort. She then became established as Astarte along the Phoenician coast in cities such as Byblos, Tyre and Sidon, surpassing Asherah as the chief goddess there during the first millennium. Her cult spread across the Mediterranean, in particular to Cyprus and Greece, where she became Aphrodite.
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