Symbolized by skylight and wife or lover of
Vahagn, Astghik, or Astlik, is the
Armenian goddess of
love,
beauty, and water. The so called
Vartavar festival, in mid June, is still the honorable celebration of her in Armenia were releasing doves and sprinkling water on each others are common.With the sun god
Aramazd and the moon goddess
Anahit she forms an astral trinity. She is similar to the
Greek Aphrodite and the
Mesopotamian Ishtar. Her name means "
star" (Armenian: ‘astgh’) a genuine Armenian word, which through the
Indo-European origin ‘ster’ is
cognate to Sanskrit and Avestan star, Pahlavi star, Persian sitara´, Pashto storai, Latin and Italian stella, French astre, Spanish astro, German stern, English star, etc. hence, the name is not believed to be related to Semitic
Ishtar.
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[Other] The Armenian goddess of love and fertility. With the sun god Vahagn and the moon goddess Anahit she forms an astral trinity. She is similar to the Greek Aphrodite and the Mesopotamian Ishtar. Her name means "little star".
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