For the metal band, see
Atargatis (band). Atargatis, in Aramaic ‘Atar‘atah, was a
Syrian deity, "the great mistress of the North Syrian lands"
Rostovtseff called her, commonly known to the Greeks by a shortened form of the name, Derceto or Derketo (
Strabo 16.785;
Pliny, Nat. Hist. 5.81), and as Dea Syria ("Goddess of Syria", rendered in one word Deasura). She is often now popularly described as the mermaid-goddess, from her fish-bodied appearance at
Ascalon and in
Diodorus Siculus — a widely accessible source — but which is by no means her universal appearance.
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[Other] The 'Syrian goddess', the 'fish goddess'. A fertility goddess represented at Ascalon as half woman, half fish.
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