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

Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do, as well as talk, and to make our words and actions all of a color.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca