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* Add your own Mailchimp form style overrides in your site stylesheet or in this style block. Set in a rural coastal town in the Mediterranean during a refugee crisis, Atargatis focuses on how a local family deals with the disappearance of a family member. One who loved her people dearly, and was loved just as dearly by them in turn. With Stephanie Yasemin Renique, Kerem Kocaer. She was a mother, a lover, a ruler of fierce power and grace. And this, some legends say, is how the constellation of Pisces came to be.Įven though the stories of this Goddess are great and many, the threads throughout all of them unite in one true knowing: that Atargatis was a powerful water Goddess-deeply connected to the watery depths of this world. It is said that when she was older, Atargatis went to Zeus, and asked him to put the symbol of the fish into the stars to show her gratitude to the ones who saved her life. She is often now popularly described as the mermaid-goddess. 5.81), and as Dea Syria (the 'Goddess of Syria, rendered in one word Deasura). The egg fell down from the skies and landed in the Euphrates river, where she was saved by a school of fish who nudged her egg to shore. Atargatis, in Aramaic ‘Atar‘atah, was a Syrian deity, more commonly known to the Greeks by a shortened form of the name, Derceto or Derketo (Strabo 16.785 Pliny, Nat. One story paints her arrival on Earth as hatching from Heaven's egg.

Now, in ancient Greece she was known as Derketo, a nymph-like maiden and the chief Syrian Goddess. And that is how the great myth of a fish-tailed Goddess-the first mermaid-was born. Some say what happened next, is that she became so overcome by grief from her birth-while others say it was because she accidentally killed her lover-that she threw herself into the water in complete and utter shame.įrom there, the legends say, her great beauty compelled the Gods of the sea to save her, and she was transformed into a fish. Template:Fertile Crescent myth (Levantine) For the metal band, see Atargatis (band). quota: 1 n a prescribed number all the salesmen met their quota for the month Type of: number a concept of quantity involving zero and units n a proportional share assigned to each participant Type of: allocation, allotment a share set aside for a specific purpose n a limitation on imports the quota for Japanese imports was negotiated.

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