| http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#value | - This Goddess worship, as James and other scholars note, survived well into historic times in the composite figure of the Magna Mater of the Near East and the Greco-Roman world.12 We clearly see this religious continuity in such well-known deities as Isis, Nut, and Maat in Egypt; Ishtar, Astarte, and Lilith in the Fertile Crescent; Demeter, Kore, and Hera in Greece; and Atargatis, Ceres, and Cybe
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