ishtar in English
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1. Ishtar Ishtar," the goddess Ishtar, "cried out like a woman in labor .
2. Astarte is the counterpart of the Babylonian goddess Ishtar
3. ISHTAR, Queen of Night, Open Thy Gate to me!
4. ▪ Page 124: Figurine of Ishtar and symbol of Marduk: Musée du Louvre, Paris
5. Maxwell Montes, the highest mountain on Venus, lies on Ishtar Terra.
6. Ishtar was abused there but released in exchange for another god.
7. Ishtar is the Akkadian counterpart of the West Semitic goddess Astarte.Inanna, an important goddess in the Sumerian pantheon, came to be identified with Ishtar, but it is uncertain whether Inanna is also of Semitic origin or whether, as is more likely, her similarity to Ishtar caused the two to be
8. According to Matthiae, this offers “conclusive proof” that Ishtar worship spanned some 2,000 years.
9. The Processional Way, which ran through the Ishtar Gate, was flanked by reliefs of striding lions.
10. Chastener (Light of the moon) lost their Ishtar in 6WW-28 (Vale of the Silent)
11. Once, Ishtar descended to the underworld to challenge her sister Ereshkigal, the Queen of the Underworld.
12. Aphrodite was originally an old - Asian goddess, similar to the Mesopotamian Ishtar and the Syro - Palestinian goddess Ashtart.
13. Ishtar, who was now worshipped as the "Mother of God and Queen of Heaven", continued to build her mystery religion.
14. She was also high priestess of the Temple of Ishtar at Magdala, and as such she would have been the keeper of the doves.
15. Although Ishtar and her counterpart Ashtoreth no longer exist, the traits that they represented —immorality and violence— are rampant.
16. It contains multiple reconstructed immense and historically significant buildings such as the Pergamon Altar and the Ishtar Gate of Babylon.
17. Ishtar soon became pregnant and claimed that it was the rays of the sun-god Baal that caused her to conceive.
18. However, “the most famous of [Nebuchadnezzar’s] achievements are the Processional Way and the Ishtar Gate,” says the book Babylon —City of Wonders.
19. A reconstruction of Babylon's Ishtar Gates, once considered one of the seven wonders of the ancient world, is a highlight at Berlin's Pergamon Museum.
20. The Phoenicians called her Astarte, the Assyrians worshiped her as Ishtar, and the Philistines had a temple of Asherah (1 Samuel 31:10)
21. It is often written Ashtoreth, particularly in Bible references to Philistine idols. The name may have been derived from that of the Assyrian goddess Ishtar.
22. Astarte is the name of a goddess as known from Northwestern Semitic regions, cognate in name, origin and functions with the goddess Ishtar in Mesopotamian texts
23. The story of his life revolves around his devotion to the goddess Ishtar (also known as Inanna) and painful yearning for an heir to the throne.
24. Iraqi officials say the attackers drove cars packed with explosives and set off their bombs in quick succession outside Baghdad's Ishtar Sheraton, Babylon and al-Hamra hotels.
25. The American reconstruction team has refurbished a modern museum on the site, as well as a model of the Ishtar Gate that for decades served as a visitors' entrance.
26. There is a large mountain range, Maxwell Montes, reaching 12km above the surroundings in Ishtar Terra, while Aphrodite Terra has a vast system of valleys spanning thousands of kilometres.
27. Astarte (from Greek Αστάρτη— Astártē) was a major goddess as known from Northwestern Semitic regions, closely related in name, origins, and functions with the goddess Ishtar in Mesopotamian texts
28. Other articles where Antum is discussed: Anu: …Anu was assigned a consort, Antum (Antu), but she seems often to have been confused with Ishtar (Inanna), the celebrated goddess of love.
29. The cult of Aphrodite was largely derived from that of the Phoenician goddess Astarte, a cognate of the East Semitic goddess Ishtar, whose cult was based on the Sumerian cult of Inanna.
30. During her tenure, she penned 42 amazingly eloquent temple hymns to praise not only her main master, but love and war goddess Ishtar/Inanna and their respective institutions of worship as well.
31. At the start of the 20th century, archaeologists excavated thousands of fragments of the Processional Way and the Ishtar Gate and then reconstructed many of them in the Pergamon Museum, in Berlin, Germany.
32. This weeping over him corresponds with that carried on over the legendary Adonis, a beautiful youth who was loved by Venus or Ishtar and who was killed by a wild boar in the mountains of Lebanon.