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Ishtar   /ˈɪʃtɑr/   Listen
Ishtar

noun
1.
Babylonian and Assyrian goddess of love and fertility and war; counterpart to the Phoenician Astarte.  Synonym: Mylitta.





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"Ishtar" Quotes from Famous Books



... I remember Ishtar ere she was stolen from us by the Babylonians, and Ea, too, was ours, supreme in the Under World, who enabled Ishtar to conquer death. Mitra, likewise, was a good old Aryan god, ere he was filched from us or we discarded ...
— The Jacket (The Star-Rover) • Jack London


Words linked to "Ishtar" :   Semitic deity, Assyria, Babylon


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