Name of the Phoenician goddess of fertility and love. She was associated with Inanna of the Sumerians, Ishtar of Akkadians, Assyrians and Babylonians, Astarot of the Israelites, and Tanit in Carthage. For the Romans it was equivalent to Venus. Veneration of nature and life. Name of an asteroid ( 672 ) . Name of black metal band from Greece. Common name of a plant also called astartea, of the family Myrthaceae. It is native to Australia.
