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Astarte
(As|tarte)
Pronunciation:
/əˈstɑːti/
a Phoenician goddess of fertility and sexual love who corresponds to the Babylonian and Assyrian goddess Ishtar and who became identified with the Egyptian Isis, the Greek Aphrodite, and others.
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