Qetesh was adopted from Canaanite religion into the Egyptian pantheon during the New Kingdom, worshipped at Coptos and depicted on Egyptian stelae in her characteristic pose atop a lion.
Astarte and Qetesh share overlapping iconography in Egyptian sources, both depicted as nude goddesses of sexuality. Some scholars consider Qetesh a hypostasis of Astarte in the Egyptian milieu.
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