Ra gave Astarte to Set as a consort alongside Anat, the Canaanite goddess of war and desire joining the storm god in his desert domain after Horus claimed the Egyptian throne.
Astarte was adopted directly into the Egyptian pantheon during the New Kingdom, receiving temples at Memphis and Thebes and retaining her Canaanite identity while being integrated into Egyptian theology as a consort of Set.
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