Word: ashtoreth
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Algeria. A group of French diggers directed by the Rev. Father Lapeyre this summer probed the temple of Tanit, on the site of ancient Carthage. Virgin Queen of the moon and heavens. Tanit was the goddess who was elsewhere known as Artemis, Astarte, Ashtoreth, Demeter, Diana. The Carthaginian Tanit was, according to Father Lapeyre's report last week, a lover of child sacrifice. Urns were unearthed containing the charred bones of children as old as 12, as young as a few months. Animal bones found in other receptacles led expedition members to guess that lambs, pigs, kids had been...
...wealth. It was of such civilization that Jeremiah complained: Seest thou not what they do in the cities of Judah and the streets of Jerusalem? The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead the dough, to make cakes to the queen of heaven [Ashtoreth], and to pour out drink offerings unto other gods that they may provoke me [God] to anger.-Book of Jeremiah...
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