Associations to the word «Ishtar»

Wiktionary

ISHTAR, proper noun. A goddess of fertility, love, sex and war. In the Babylonian pantheon, she was the divine personification of the planet Venus; the Assyrian and Babylonian counterpart to the Sumerian Inanna and to the northwest-Semitic goddess Astarte.

Dictionary definition

ISHTAR, noun. Babylonian and Assyrian goddess of love and fertility and war; counterpart to the Phoenician Astarte.

Wise words

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