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Queen of Heaven
Below is a Bible verse which talks about people worshiping the planet Venus as the “Queen of Heaven.” They were apparently quite happy and prosperous, and were unhappy that some priests were trying to get them to give up their Queen of Heaven beliefs.
Jeremiah 44:17 (NIV)
“We will certainly do everything we said we would: We will burn incense to the Queen of Heaven and will pour out drink offerings to her just as we and our fathers, our kings and our officials did in the towns of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem. At that time we had plenty of food and were well off and suffered no harm.”
Some scholars say that the above is talking about worship of the moon and the goddess Artemis/Diana, who was worshipped by the Greeks and Romans and called the “Queen of Heaven” as well.
And there are others who claim that it’s referring to Venus, Asherah, Ashtoreth, Ishtar, or Isis, all of which seem to be some shiny star or planet in the sky or up in heaven.
The idea of “Go in peace” or “Peace be with you” originated from stories of Venus and the sun as well, since the two are always close together, going into the supposed underworld at night, and wishing them a safe journey through the imagined underworld of darkness. “Shalem” eventually turned into “Shalom” over time.
If the above verse about the Queen of Heaven is talking about the moon instead of the planet Venus, the same sentiments apply to it as well, since both the moon and Venus were considered fertility goddesses. I personally think it refers to the planet Venus, but others disagree, and think it refers to the moon. Others think it refers to the star Sirius, which was also a fertility goddess which became visible in the sky right before the Nile river in Egypt flooded each year.
Regardless, it seems to refer to some actual shiny heavenly object that everyone can see with their own eyes if they know when and where to look in the sky.
At certain times, Venus can be visible in the morning, yet not visible in the evening, or in a different position than it was in the morning, so many ancient cultures had two different names for Venus. One for the morning appearance, or morning star, and a different name for the evening appearance, or evening star. To the ancients, the planets were mystical sources of light, which moved around differently than actual stars, so they made up stories about them, gave them names, deified them even, and invented elaborate stories about them, such as the one about Venus being “cast out of the high heavens” because of some imagined battle in heaven which never really happened in reality.
Back to the Bible, looking at the rest of the Isaiah 14 verse, you can see how the imagery of Venus not being able to rise up to the heights of the clouds and among the “stars of God” comes into play through the poetry/taunt.
Isaiah 14:13-15 (KJV)
“For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north: I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High. Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit.”
Personifying the planet Venus as a god or goddess or fallen angel, stories were made up to explain why it couldn’t rise up into the “high heavens” where the sun and moon and outer planets appear in the sky. “Most High” was a description or title used to refer to the planet Zeus/Jupiter by several different ancient societies. Some societies also called Saturn the “Most High” as well, because it was considered the outermost planet at the time.
It’s been suggested in several books and articles I’ve read that the name of God to many of the northern tribes of Israel was “El” and that it means “most EL-evated” or “most high,” and that in fact such a title belonged to the planet Saturn at that time.
