> in the 20th dynasty text, the contendings of horus and seth, anat and atart are referred to as divine daughters who are also the future wives of the god set, whom the egyptians identified with baal > astarte and the sea (also pamherst ix or simply the astarte papyrus) is an egyptian hieratic tale, dating from the new kingdom, which relates a story about the goddess astarte and her rival yam. though astarte and yam appear to have originated as canaanite deities, both were, at times, worshipped in ancient egypt as well > yam, a deity who is a personification of the sea, demands tribute from the gods. if his demands are not met, he will overrun the "sky, earth, and mountains." astarte brings tribute from ptah, nut, and renenutet, who were native deities. yam changes the deal: he wants her as his wife and divine jewelry that would grant him lordship over the world > the cult of aphrodite was largely derived from that of the phoenician goddess astarte, a cognate of the east semitic goddess ishtar, whose cult was based on the sumerian cult of inanna > the venus callipyge, also known as the aphrodite kallipygos (greek:  ), all literally meaning "venus (or aphrodite) of the beautiful buttocks", is an ancient roman marble statue, thought to be a copy of an older greek original > aphrodite, the greek goddess of love and beauty, was often described as golden-haired and portrayed with this color hair in art. aphrodite's master epithet in the homeric epics is  (khrus), which means "golden" > sappho also praises aphrodite for her golden hair, stating that since gold metal is free from rust, the goddess' golden hair represents her freedom from ritual pollution > the most famous statue of aphrodite, the aphrodite of knidos, sculpted in the fourth century bc by praxiteles, represented the goddess' hair using gold leaf and contributed to the popularity of the image of aphrodite as a blonde goddess
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