Atargatis / Gates of Atar

Atar-Gatis of The Gates of Atar

 

Atar-Gatis is a "Goddess" from the Atar Plateau in Mauritania.  Atar-Gatis actual represents the Atar Mountains themselves.  

 

Gods and Goddesses are Earthly Features

Most ancient Gods and Goddesses are actually named after the Geological Features they represent. 

Actual stories about actual people sometimes can deeply associated with their geological counterpart.  

 

Ataratheh or Atar-atheh 

 

Atheh or Athi or Athli refers to the 12 points of the Zodiac and the 12 Hebrew Tribes of the Atar Mauritania, Lower AEgypt, West Africa.

 

 

Atar-Gatis

In the case of the Goddess Atargatis, she represents not only the mountain rains and lakes beneath her like Mermedah (Mermedah / Mermaidae / Mer Yam / Miryam / Miriam)

The Atarantes Peoples had Mermaids as a central part of their myths and religions. 

 

 

Atargatis Myth Origin Location 

The Northern Mountains of Mauritania are slips into 3 major parts, the Atlans, the Atars, the Adrars or the Eye of Ouadane (Odan).

Most people recognize the Eye of Ouadane as Eye of Sahara (Sara) and as the Eye of Gorus (Horus).  "Gorus" means squint as the Eye of Sahara is indeed "squinting". 

The original GHORUS meaning "Squint" is harder to say so over time the G was dropped it became became Horus to Upper Egyptians.   

 

 

The Atars are were most pre Greek Achaean Myths and Siran (Syran) Myths Originate. 

 

 

Atarantes Peoples

 

 

Atarantes PEoples 

Atarantes PEoples

 

 

 

Atarantes PEoples

Atarantes PEoples

 

Atarantes PEoples

 

Atarantes PEoples

 

Atarantes PEoples

 

Atargatis and the 12 Celestials 

 

Atargatis or Athena

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atargatis 

Atargatis Sea or Mermedha or Mer  Medha of Sea of Medha or Mebha Sea. Hadh or Hadad is her consort or the Sea next to Atargatis.  Tâyâret el Hâdh.

 

 

 

Atlantes Peoples

Draa Siria Dra Syria 

Dea Syria  

 

 

 

Atar

The Hebrew word atar (or atar) has several biblical meanings, most commonly related to the concept of a crown (etymologically, from a root meaning "to encircle") or to shut/bind (a different root, Strong's H332). It is also the root of place names like Ataroth, meaning "crowns". The term atar can also refer to a name of a person (Atarah, meaning "crown") or, in a different context, the word for "fire" in the Avestan language, associated with the Zoroastrian deity Atar.  

https://biblehub.com/topical/a/atar.htm

Crown/To encircle: The most common use is in the noun form atarah (אֲטָרָה), which means a crown, circlet, or diadem. The related verb, also atar (H5849), means "to encircle," both literally for a crown and figuratively, such as "to compass" an enemy or "to crown" a king.
To shut/bind: A different Hebrew word, also transliterated atar (H332), has a root meaning to "shut up," "close," or "bind". It can also be used to mean "close one's mouth".
Place names: Several places in the Bible are named Ataroth (or Ataroth-Addar), derived from the word for "crowns".
Person's name: Atarah is the name of a woman in the Old Testament, a wife of Jerahmeel, which is a feminized version of the word for "crown". 
Other contexts
Zoroastrianism: In the ancient Persian language of Avestan, Atar means "fire" and refers to the divinity of fire in Zoroastrianism.
Aramaic/Talmudic context: In some contexts, especially in later texts and commentaries, the word atar (or "makom") can mean "place" or "location". 

-Gatis

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gatis 

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/g%C4%83ti

Could be linked to the old Latvian word gātis, which means "gates" or "river source". 

The related Latvian names Gaits and Gaitis come from the native Latvian word gaita, which means "course, path, progress, pace, or way of going". 

Ignatius, meaning "fiery" or "glowing". ts name-day is celebrated on 8 January. The name is one of the relatively few surviving names of indigenous origin.

 

 

 

In Sanskrit, the word gatis (गति) means "gait," "going," "motion," "path," or "way". This term is also used in Jainism to refer to the four states of existence (gatis) in the cycle of rebirth. This Sanskrit word derives from the Proto-Indo-European root *gʷḿ̥tis or *gem- meaning "to go".  

Her consort is usually Hadad.

Atargatis and her consort Hadad.

Hadad represents another smaller lake next to Memedah and flanking the south side of Athens Mauritania.

As Ataratheh, doves and fish were considered sacred to her: doves as an emblem of the love goddess, and fish as symbolic of the fertility and life of the waters.  

 

This is Lake Hadad or the "consort" or Lake Medah or Mer Medah aka Mir Yam or Miryam (Moses sister) or Atagatis herself the Lake to the North.

 

Mer Medah or Atar Gatis "The Gates of Atar" and her Valleys make up the "Goddess" herself. The Goddess of the Atar Mountains has stories that reflect historical events that including actual individuals with similar names and this is why many myth are similar.... They are real events that were accounted by different peoples, languages, religions and culture... 

 

Mermedah (Mer Medah / Mer Maid)empties into the Dhrâ‘ Achâmîm (Achaean) but First flowing past her "Consort" Hadad and on to the Achean Sea. 

 

 

 

Athla-bacatus or Athla in Pearls is Atar Gatis is the Mermaid in an actual clam shell making ATAR-GATIS THE PEARL ATHLA or simply Athla Bactus.  This Latin Map uses that terminology for naming the Atar Mountains of Mauritania in the West African Underworld. 

 

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/bacatus

 

 

Meaning: "Gait," "movement,"  or "way of walking".
Origin: Comes from the Sanskrit root word gaṃ ("to move" or "to go").
Usage: A fundamental concept in Indian classical arts like nāṭya (dramatic performance), where it describes the movements of a character on stage.
Example: Gajagati is a specific gati that means the "gait of the elephant," signifying a slow movement. 

Gleitet Mermedha”

Gleïtet Mermedha
Gleïtet Mermedha is a lake in Adrar Region, Mauritania

https://mapcarta.com/17108108

 

Tâyâret el Hâdh
Tâyâret el Hâdh is a locality in Adrar Region, Mauritania. Tâyâret el Hâdh is situated nearby to the locality E-n-Jeïlâne, as well as near Gaçbet ’Aouînet Teleski.

https://mapcarta.com/N7740645317

Bathet Meriama
Bathet Meriama is a stream in Adrar Region, Mauritania. Bathet Meriama is situated nearby to the locality Grâret el Khaṭṭ.

 

 

Atargatis is seen as a continuation of Bronze Age goddesses. At Ugarit, cuneiform tablets attest multiple Arabic goddesses, among them three are considered as relevant to theories about the origin of Atargatis:

ʾAṯirat, described as "Lady of the Sea" (rbt ảṯrt ym) and "mother of the gods" (qnyt ỉlm)
ʿAnat, a war goddess
ʿAṯtart, a goddess of the hunt also sharing Anat's warlike role, regarded as analogous to Ishtar and Ishara in Ugaritic god lists and as such possibly connected to love.

The original Aramaic name of the goddess was 𐡏𐡕𐡓𐡏𐡕𐡄 (ʿAttarʿattā), with its other forms including 𐡏𐡕𐡓𐡏𐡕𐡀 (ʿAttarʿattaʾ), 𐡀𐡕𐡓𐡏𐡕𐡄 (ʾAttarʿattā), 𐡀𐡕𐡓𐡏𐡕𐡀 (ʾAttarʿattaʾ), and the apocope form 𐡕𐡓𐡏𐡕 (Tarʿatta). The name ʿAttarʿattā was composed of:[13][14][15][16][17][18]

𐡏𐡕𐡓 (ʿAttar, from earlier ʿAṯtar), which during the Iron Age had evolved from being the name of the goddess ʿAṯtart to become used to mean "goddess" in general, and was used in the name ʿAttarʿattā in the sense of "goddess";[19]
and 𐡏𐡕𐡄 (ʿAttā), which is the Aramaic variant of the name of the Semitic goddess ʿAnat.[citation needed]
The Greek name of the goddess, attested in the forms Αταργατις (Atargatis), Ατταγαθη (Attagathē), Αταρατη (Ataratē), and Αταργατη (Atargatē), was derived from the non-apocope forms of its original Aramaic name, while her Greek name Δερκετω (Derketō) was derived from 𐡕𐡓𐡏𐡕 (Tarʿatta). 

Atargatis generally appears as the wife of Hadad. They are the protecting deities of the community.[a] Atargatis, wearing a mural crown, is the ancestor the royal house, the founder of social and religious life, the goddess of generation and fertility (hence the prevalence of phallic emblems), and the inventor of useful appliances.[21]

Derceto, from Athanasius Kircher's Oedipus Aegyptiacus, 1652.
Derceto was venerated in mermaid form, i.e., with "a face of a woman, and otherwise the entire body of a fish" in a shrine by Ashkelon, Syria, according to Diodorus (1st century BCE), drawing on Ctesias (5th century BCE); the attached myth explaining that Derceto transformed into a fish, after drowning herself in a nearby lake.[b][22][24][25] The goddess was presumably revered in that fish-form at Ashkelon. It has been conjectured that the veneration of the goddess did indeed occur at Ashkelon and may have originated there.[26] However, there is no evidence that Atargatis was worshipped at Ascalon.[citation needed]

The image of Derceto as half-woman half-fish was also witnessed by Lucian (2nd century) somewhere in Phoenicia (i.e., Phoenice Syria), but at the Holy City of Phoenicia (Hierapolis Bambyce), she was depicted entirely as a woman. This temple was nominally dedicated to "Hera", but some thought it actually consecrated Derceto.[28] [29] Lucian in a later passage gives a description at length of this "Hera" whom the locals "call by a different name" (Atargatis), at Hierapolis.[c] The goddess was posed seated with two lions on her sides,[d] "In one hand she had a scepter, in the other a spindle, and on her head she wears rays, a tower [mural crown]..", and she wore a girdle (Ancient Greek: κεστός) as well. The head was set with a gemstone called lychnis which glowed by night.[31][32]

The worship of Atargatis going back to the Hellenistic Phoenicia (Seleucid Syria) is evidenced by inscriptions at Akko 

 

 

Athaliah (Hebrew: עֲתַלְיָה, Modern: ʻAtalya, Tiberian: ʿĂṯalyā, Greek: Γοθολία Gotholía; Latin: Athalia) was the daughter of King Ahab and Queen Jezebel of Israel; she was queen consort of Judah as the wife of King Jehoram, a descendant of King David, and was later queen regnant c. 841–835 BC.

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athaliah

 

 

Atargatis may be related to the myths of Atalanta and others.     

 

Atargatis, in Aramaic ‘Atar‘atah, was a Syrian deity," great goddess of northern Syria," and "the great mistress of the North Syrian lands," commonly known to the ancient Greeks by a shortened form of the name, Aphrodite Derceto or Derketo and as Dea Syria, "Goddess of Syria". her chief sanctuary was at Hierapolis (modern Manbij), northeast of Aleppo, occasionally 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.

At Ugarit, cuneiform tablets attest a fecund "Lady Goddess of the Sea" (rabbat 'atiratu yammi), as well as three Canaanite goddesses — Anat, Asherah and Astarte (Ashtart) — who shared many traits and might be worshipped in conjunction or separately during 1500 years of cultural history.

Possible late transfigurations: Atar-gatis, Atar, without the feminine suffix, is identified with the goddess Atah (Athah) worshipped at Palmyra, and may have had a shared origin with Anat. Atah was combined with Astarte (Ashtart) under the name Atar into the goddess Atar‘atah known to the Hellenes as Atargatis. If this origin for Atah is correct, then Atargatis is effectively a combination of Astarte and Anat.

 

Atagatis and Athena and Atlanta and Athaliah represent that Atar MOuntain Range anf d the stories about the historical events that may have actually happened in the 2000 BCE to 500 BCE timeframe in the Atar Mountains of Mauritania, Lower AEgypt and Lower AEthiopia..

Nabatean, c. 100 AD This statue comes from Khirbet Tannur. A standing figure of winged Victory (Nike) holds up a bust of Atargatis, crowned as Tyche ("Fortune") and encircled by the signs of the zodiac. The statue is divided into two pieces: the standing Nike, kept in the Amman Museum, and the bust of Tyche with zodiac, belonging to the Cincinnati Art Museum. The two pieces were reunited for a traveling exhibit, Petra: Lost City of Stone. The sculpture seen here is a copy, that is being kept in the Amman museum while the reunited statue travels (2005).

At Ugarit, cuneiform tablets attest multiple Canaanite goddesses, among them three are considered as relevant to theories about the origin of Atargatis: ʾAṯirat, described as "Lady of the Sea" (rbt ảṯrt ym) and "mother of the gods" (qnyt ỉlm)

 

Içikiâne  Achean Ithaka

Kykeon: An ancient Greek healing potion described in Homer's Odyssey.

Kyria: A female name of Greek origin, meaning "lady" or "mistress." 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atalanta   

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