R.H. Allen , Starnames, Their Lore and Meaning, , [1990], 463, In Assyria Virgo represented Baaltis, Belat, Belit, and Beltis, Bel's wife; while some thought her the Mylitta of Herodotus. But this was a very different divinity, the Babylonian Molatta, the Moon, the Mother, or QUeen, of Heaven, against whose worship the Jews were warned in the Book of the Prophet Jeremiah, xliv, 17, 19, and should not be confounded with the Ashtoreth, the goddess of Zidonians, that our figure symbolized.