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In the Old Akkadian period ... [274] [275] The first three deities refuse, saying Inanna's fate is her ... Ishtar and Izdubar expanded the original roughly 3,000 ...
Copy of the Akkadian version of Ishtar's Descent into Hell, from the " Library of Ashurbanipal ' in Nineveh, 7th century BC, British Museum, UK.. The Descent of Inanna into the Underworld (or, in its Akkadian version, Descent of Ishtar into the Underworld) or Angalta ("From the Great Sky") is a Sumerian myth that narrates the descent of the goddess Inanna (Ishtar in Akkadian) into the ...
Ishtar (Sumerian Inanna) is a goddess associated with the planet Venus, [68] war and love. [69] After Gilgamesh returns to Uruk from his expedition to the cedar forest, she proposes marriage to him, which constitutes a reversal of contemporary courtship customs. [ 70 ]
Annunitum ("the martial one") was initially an epithet of Ishtar, [286] but later a separate goddess. [287] She is first attested in documents from the Ur III period. [288] She was a warrior goddess who shared a number of epithets with Ishtar. [289] It is possible she was depicted with a trident-like weapon on seals. [290]
[12] [13] While Gilgamesh and Enkidu are resting, Ishtar stands up on the walls of Uruk and curses Gilgamesh. [12] [14] [15] Enkidu tears off the Bull's right thigh and throws it at Ishtar's face. [12] [14] [15] [10] Ishtar calls together "the crimped courtesans, prostitutes and harlots" [12] and orders them to mourn for the Bull of Heaven.
Astarte appears as a playable Avenger-class Servant in Fate/Grand Order (2015), with her name stylized as "Ashtart". However, she first introduces herself as "Space Ishtar", and only reveals her true name after her third Ascension. There is an Idol House of Astarte in the Agatha Christie story "The Idol House of Astarte".
The cult of Ishtar and Tammuz may have been introduced to the Kingdom of Judah during the reign of King Manasseh [80] and the Old Testament contains numerous allusions to them. [81] Ezekiel 8:14 mentions Tammuz by name: [ 82 ] [ 77 ] [ 78 ] [ 79 ] "Then he brought me to the door of the gate of the Lord's house which was toward the north; and ...
Epithet Location Notes Akuṣitum Akus [29]: Akuṣitum (also spelled Akusitum) was the epithet of Inanna as the goddess of Akus, attested in royal inscriptions of the Manāna dynasty near Kish, in a later religious text pertaining to the deities of that city, in the god list An = Anum (tablet IV, line 134), and in the name of one of the gates of Babylon.