There would be little difficulty in antiquity in identifying Jesus, a male, with the planet Aphrodite (Greek) or Venus (Latin), a female. The reason for this is that Venus, as our informants tell us, was both a morning and evening star. Depending on the cosmic disposition of the star, it could be masculine or feminine, thus serve in male or female roles. Moore reports on Henninger’s study of Venus among the Semites as follows: The various Semitic names for Venus (Ishtar, Attar, etc.) all derived