Jeremiah 44:15-18

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-In the time of Jeremiah the queen of heaven was the
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-Assyro-Babylonian Ishtar. Inasmuch as there were immoral ceremonies connected
-with this worship, it aroused Jeremiah’s hot indignation, particularly since it
-appears to have been a prominent part of the idolatry then practiced. The
-Assyro-Babylonian Ishtar, the mother goddess, was the equivalent of the
-divinity known to the Hebrews as Ashtoreth and to the Canaanites as Astarte,
-whose figurines are found in Palestine. This goddess of fertility, of
-maternity, of sexual love, and of war was worshiped in rites of a grossly
-immoral and debasing character. She was essentially the same goddess though
-worshipped under many names and in many aspects, such as the earth-mother, the
-virgin-mother, and is identified in a general sense with Atargatis, the “Great
-Mother” of Asia Minor, Artemis (Diana) of Ephesus, Venus, and others.
-Roman Catholics today call Mary the Queen of Heaven, but
-this has nothing to do with the queen of heaven in Jeremiah’s time.
--- Gerhard Pfandl, correspondence