The Egyptians honored her as a Goddess of War and tenacity. She was a Goddess of Love and Fertility to the Semites. Among the Greeks She was transposed into the Goddess of Love Aphrodite. In the Bible she is referred to as "the abomination".

The worship of Astarte spread far and wide, and in time, she was worshipped by the Phillistines, the Greeks, the Romans, the Sicilians, and in many parts of Europe and Africa. The Egg is her sacred symbol.

Astarte was also worshipped as Freya by the Norse, Indrani by the Hindus, by the Celts as Danu, and by the Egyptians as Hathor. Like Artemis/Diana, She often carries a bow and arrows, and is the center of many millenia of devotion.