- Ishtar Assyrian Goddess
- Ishtar The Assyrian Venus Statue
- Ishtar The Assyrian Venus Painting
- Ishtar The Assyrian Venus Goddess
Ishtar, the warrior goddess worshipped by the Assyrians. Ishtar was the goddess of love and war. She is depicted on the stele as a virile, war-loving figure, which is more commonly found on cylindrical seals. The goddess is shown standing on the back of a lion - the animal form she usually takes. She is holding the lion's leash in her left hand. Number 41, once again, does not even mention the etymology of the word Ishtar (it discusses the translations of several verbs in the story of her descent to the underworld, and mentions that Ishtar is 'identified' with the dawn star/Venus (Pinker, A., 2005, p.
Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The chief Babylonian and Assyrian goddess, associated with love, fertility, and war, being the counterpart to the Phoenician Astarte.
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- proper noun A goddess of fertility, love, sex and war. In the Babylonian pantheon, she was the divine personification of the planet Venus. Assyrian and Babylonian counterpart to the Sumerian Inanna and to the cognate northwest Semitic goddess Astarte.
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- noun Babylonian and Assyrian goddess of love and fertility and war; counterpart to the Phoenician Astarte
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
Ishtar Assyrian Goddess
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Ishtar The Assyrian Venus Statue
Examples
Ishtar is a great movie, a real gem, and more and more people are coming to realize this.
Ea tries to rescue Ishtar from the underworld by sending a servant and is partially successful (Dalley 1989: 158).
Ea tries to rescue Ishtar from the underworld by sending a servant and is partially successful (Dalley 1989: 158).
Sometimes she was called Ishtar, a goddess of love and fertility and identified in mythology with Venus, the brightest light in the heavens.
Sometimes she was called Ishtar, a goddess of love and fertility and identified in mythology with Venus, the brightest light in the heavens.
Sometimes she was called Ishtar, a goddess of love and fertility and identified in mythology with Venus, the brightest light in the heavens.
Sometimes she was called Ishtar, a goddess of love and fertility and identified in mythology with Venus, the brightest light in the heavens.
Her name Ishtar is that by which she was known in Assyria; and the same term prevailed with slight modifications among the Semitic races generally.
Every year, the first Sunday after the first full moon after the spring equinox became known as Ishtar's Sunday, and was celebrated by rabbits and eggs, and a pig must be eaten that day.
While he's 'particularly drawn to the films he made in the late 60s and 70s,' and you'll see that in his Warren Beatty top 5, you'll find plenty leaving comments arguing that Ishtar is a 'great movie,' even 'the most misjudged movie of all time.
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Ishtar The Assyrian Venus Painting
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Ishtar The Assyrian Venus Goddess
English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Learned borrowing from Akkadian𒀭𒈹(dIštar). Doublet of Astarte.
Proper noun[edit]
Ishtar
- A goddess of fertility, love, sex and war. In the Babylonian pantheon, she was the divine personification of the planet Venus; the Assyrian and Babylonian counterpart to the Sumerian Inanna and to the northwest-Semitic goddess Astarte.
Anagrams[edit]
- A-shirt, Trisha
