Download "Gilgamesh" Heaven`S Gate For Free ' title='Download "Gilgamesh" Heaven`S Gate For Free ' />Ishtar Wikipedia. Ishtarlove, beauty, sex, desire, fertility, war, combat, and political power. Old Babylonian relief from the early second millennium BCE showing Ishtar wearing a crown and flounced skirt, holding her symbol, currently held in the Louvre Museum. Planet. Venus. Symbolhook- shaped knot of reeds, Star of Ishtar, lion, rod- and- ring symbol, symbolic staff,Consort. Tammuzother consorts. Parents. Anu. Equivalents. Greek equivalent. Aphrodite. Canaanite equivalent. Astarte. Sumerian equivalent. Inanna. Ishtar (; cuneiform: 𒀭𒈹Dištar) was the Mesopotamian goddess of love, beauty, sex, desire, fertility, war, combat, and political power, the East Semitic (Akkadian, Assyrian, and Babylonian) counterpart to the Sumerian. Inanna, and a cognate of the Northwest Semitic goddess Astarte and the Armenian goddess Astghik. Ishtar was an important deity in Mesopotamian religion from around 3. BCE, until its gradual decline between the 1st and 5th centuries CE with the spread of Christianity. Ancient Akkadiancylinder seal depicting Ishtar resting her foot on the back of a lion while a female attendant stands in front of her paying obeisance, c. BCEThe ancient Mesopotamians worshipped Ishtar as the goddess of both warfare and sexuality. Unlike other gods, whose roles were static and whose domains were limited, the stories of Ishtar describe her as moving from conquest to conquest. She was portrayed as young and impetuous, constantly striving for more power than she had been allotted. Although she was worshipped as the goddess of love, Ishtar was not the goddess of marriage, nor was she ever viewed as a mother goddess. A description of her from one of her hymns declares, When the servants let the flocks loose, and when cattle and sheep are returned to cow- pen and sheepfold, then, my lady, like the nameless poor, you wear only a single garment. The pearls of a prostitute are placed around your neck, and you are likely to snatch a man from the tavern. Ishtar had many lovers; 1. Guirand writes: Woe to him whom Ishtar had honoured The fickle goddess treated her passing lovers cruelly, and the unhappy wretches usually paid dearly for the favours heaped on them. Proshow Producer 5 Style Pack Free Download. Animals, enslaved by love, lost their native vigour: they fell into traps laid by men or were domesticated by them.