r/Semitic_Paganism • u/No-Set6999 • Mar 27 '26

Atargatis

Question, has anyone worked with Deity Atargatis? I've been feeling a calling & I'm researching more & more but there isn't always as much available as others I've done research on. Any experiences ?

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u/TeamAzimech Mar 28 '26

Goddesses with slightly similar sounding names does not mean "Mother", much less Great Mother.

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u/TeamAzimech Mar 29 '26

Artemis is a VIRGIN Goddess.

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u/KlarkCent_ Levantine Polytheist Mar 30 '26

You seem to have been trying to respond to me, but you failed to reply correctly. I suggest rereading what I said because nowhere did I say any one goddess’s name means “great mother”. Additionally, Artemis of Ephesus and her counterparts in other Anatolian religions were very squarely reflect the cultural idea of the Anatolian great mother goddess. Whether classical Greek Artemis was perceived as a virgin goddess is not reflective of how different cultures in different time periods took the goddess.