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Stargate: Atlantis Character
Athar
Status	Unknown
Gender	Female
Species	Ancient/Human
Origin	Proculus
Portrayed by	Leonor Varela
First Appearance	"Sanctuary"
Profession	N/A
Relatives	N/A
Special Features	ascended

Athar is a character on the TV series Stargate Atlantis portrayed by Leonor Varela.

After seeing an energy beam destroy Wraith ships in orbit of the planet Proculus, John Sheppard and his team go to investigate thinking that it is a weapon. On the surface they meet Chaya Sar, the High Priestess of the goddess Athar. Chaya is actually an Ancient, Athar. Before they ascended, she lived on Proculus. After she ascended, she remained on Proculus, and when the Wraith came, she lashed out with her mind & destroyed the fleet. As with Orlin and Oma Desala, she was exiled for interfering with "mortal life." Her punishment was the unending protection of Proculus. She says that she is not allowed to protect any others, or to help or teach the SGA. She says that the other Ancients would stop her if she tried to ("Sanctuary")

Mythology

In Mesopotamia, Athar, or Athyr, is the Canaanite God of the Morning Star or Evening Star (Venus). While Baal was battling Mot in the underworld, Athar usurped Baal’s throne. Although, after Ba'al returned from the underworld, Athar gave the throne back. The Ugaritic Athar ("Shining One, Son of Dawn") climbed the heights of heaven to challenge Ba'al. From this story, he is compared to the Greek story of Phaethon.

Athyr was also a name for Hathor (Hathor being a mistake in Greek transcribing of Athyr).