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>With Eshmun, this numerical affinity is also present in his name, which means “the Eighth” and refers to him being the eighth child of the god Sadyk. It is in his lordship over his seven siblings, the Kabeiroi and Dioskouroi, that his foundations as an underworld deity are further cemented. These seven chthonic deities reveal a link between Phoenician myth and the origins of the myths of Jason and the Golden Fleece, whom Philo credits with the invention of the first ship—a feat often attributed to the builders of the Argo—and whose mysteries the Argonauts were initiated into at Lemnos
>In the myth of Eshmun, Ashtoreth's character as a goddess of sex and death is firmly established in her pursuit of the young hunter, whose resurrection as the Ba'al of Sidon and the resultant healing powers his return from death bring him suitably reflect the Solar-chthonic aspects of gods such as Ningišzida, Nergal, Aplu, and Apollo. In the name Astronoë, the influence of the Greek world is evident, showing an alteration to her original moniker, which is believed to be related to irrigation and fertility, into a form composed around the Greek (astro), meaning “star.” This phonological adjustment serves to represent Ashtoreth's association with Venus as the morning and evening star, which is represented by the eight-pointed star of Ishtar, the five-sided star present in her Lemegeton seal, Astaroth's rank as a Duke, and the name of the Book of Offices spirit Star, whose name may originate in Astaroth's alternative name in the Livre des Esperitz, Estor
>The pentagram that appears in her Lemegeton seal is a well-known example of a geometrical form that expresses the Golden Ratio of φ or 1.618—the mathematical formulas in which the observable patterns of nature and the proportion of divine beauty are expressed—in the proportions between its uppermost points
