A Phoenician Great Mother and Fertility, Goddess of the Earth and Water, originally from Syria, known as ATARATHEH and spread to Greece and Rome. In the Ugarit cuneiform tablets she was referred to her as Goddess of the Sea Atargatis was also known as: Aphrodite Derceto, Dea Syriae occasionally referred to as one word Deasura Doves and fish were sacred to her; they represented fertility and...