For the metal band, see Atargatis .Atargatis, in Aramaic ?Atar?atah, was a Syrian deity, "the great mistress of the North Syrian lands" Rostovtseff called her,M. Rostovtseff, "Hadad and Atargatis at Palmyra", American Journal of Archeology 37 (January 1933) , pp 58-63, examining Palmyrene stamped tesserae. commonly known to the Greeks by a shortened form of the name, Derceto or DerketoStrabo 16.785; Pliny, Natural History 5.81. and as Dea Syria, "Goddess of Syria", rendered in one word Deasura.