Anuke

Another mystery! Goddess of war. Unforunately there is a huge lack of information and pics. She is depicted in armor carrying bows and arrows.

It is said that she is a very ancient goddess. Some say that she was a consort of Anhur, however when doing research on him, she is not mentioned.

Astarte

It is said the she is a very ancient goddess. Astarte first appears in the beginning of the Eighteenth dynasty along with other deities who worshiped by northwest Semitic people. Astarte was actually a warrior goddess of Canaan and Syria who is a Western Semitic counterpart of the Akkadian Ishtar worshiped in Mesopotamia. She was worshiped especially in her aspect of a warrior goddess, often paired with the goddess Anat. Like Anat, she is the daughter of Re and the wife of the god Set. In the battle between Horus and Set, these two goddesses appear as daughters of Re and are given in marriage to the god Set, here identified with the Semitic name Hadad. Astarte also was identified with the lioness warrior goddess Sekhmet, but often merged, at least in part, with Isis. We see many images found of Astarte suckling a small child.

There is a statue from the 6th century BC in the Cairo Museum, which normally would be taken as portraying Isis with her child Horus on her knee and which in every detail follows normal Egyptian conventions, but the inscription reads: "Gersaphon, son of Azor, son of Slrt, man of Lydda, for his Lady, for Astarte. Some say that she had a relationship with the god of the sea. From badly fragmentary papyrus it gives the legend of Astarte and the the sea god Yamm, who demanded tribute from the gods, particularly Renenutet. Her place is then taken by Astarte called, in this aspect, "daughter of Ptah". The story is lost from that point on but one assumes this liaison resulted in the goddess tempering the arrogance of Yamm.

She is associated with horses and chariots. On the stele set up near the sphinx by Amenhotep II celebrating his prowess, Astarte is described as delighting in the impressive equestrian skill of the monarch when he was still only crown prince. In her aggression can be seen in the bull horns she sometimes wears as a symbol of domination.

Astarte was connected with fertility, sexuality, and war. Her symbols were the lion, the horse, the sphinx, the dove, and a star within a circle indicating the planet Venus.

Depictions often show her naked. Astarte was accepted by the Greeks under the name of Aphrodite. The island of Cyprus, one of Astarte's greatest faith centers, supplied the name Cypris as Aphrodite's most common byname. Other major centers of Astarte's worship were Sidon, Tyre, and Byblos. Coins from Sidon portray a chariot in which a globe appears, presumably a stone representing Astarte. In Sidon, she shared a temple with Eshmun. At Beirut coins show Poseidon, Astarte, and Eshmun worshipped together.

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