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Queen of Heaven

In Jeremiah 7:18 and Jeremiah 44:17-18 we are told that the Judean women baked cakes and burned incense for “the Queen of Heaven”. They also presented wine offerings to her. This Queen of Heaven is probably a reference to the goddess Astarte.

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