Shub-Niggurath
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Shub-Niggurath is a fictional deity created by H. P. Lovecraft. She is often associated with the phrase "The Black Goat of the Woods with a Thousand Young". The only other name by which Lovecraft refe
Artistic portrayal of Shub-Niggurath, along with her "Thousand Young"
Astarte
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Astarte is the Hellenized form of the Ancient Near Eastern goddess ʿAṯtart. ʿAṯtart was the Northwest Semitic equivalent of the East Semitic goddess Ishtar.
Shub-Niggurath
…explicitly defined Shub-Niggurath as a mother goddess in The Mound, where he calls her "Shub-Niggurath, the All-Mother". He describes her as a kind of Astarte in the same story. In Out of the Aeons, she is one of the deities siding with humanity against "hostile gods". August Derleth classified Shub-Niggurath…
Phoenician statuette figurine of ʿAštart from El Carambolo in Spain
A mask from 4th century BC Carthage of an androgynous, bearded individual, has been argued to be Astarte
Archer Astarte riding a horse on an Egyptian stele
Standard naked idols from Israel and Judea