Synonyms:
Ishtar, Mylitta
Meaning: Babylonian and Assyrian goddess of love and fertility and war; counterpart to the Phoenician Astarte
Usage examples
Ishtar cursed Gilgamesh.
Nin-sun links with Ishtar, whose Sumerian name is Nana.
She links with Ishtar as Nin, as Isis of Egypt linked with other mother deities.
Ishtar appears to be identical with the Egyptian Hathor, who, as Sekhet, slaughtered the enemies of the sun god Ra.
Then the temptress pleaded with him to go with her to Erech, where Anu and Ishtar had their temples, and the mighty Gilgamesh lived in his palace.
The goddess Ishtar appeared as "La Belle Dame Sans Merci" before Gilgamesh and addressed him tenderly, saying: "Come, O Gilgamesh, and be my consort.
The spring sun was personified as Tammuz, the youthful shepherd, who was loved by the earth goddess Ishtar and her rival Eresh-ki-gal, goddess of death, the Babylonian Persephone.
Ishtar's heart was filled with wrath when she heard the words which Gilgamesh had spoken, and she prevailed upon her father Anu to create a fierce bull which she sent against the lord of Erech.