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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



... by ancient Egyptians to their moon-goddess; and these had imprinted on them a pair of horns, symbolic of the ox at the sacrifice of which they were offered on the altar, or of the horned moon-goddess, the equivalent of Ishtar of the Assyro-Babylonians. The Greeks offered such sacred cakes to Astarte and other divinities. This cake they called bous (ox), in allusion to the ox-symbol marked on it, and from the accusative boun it is suggested ...
— Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 - "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" • Various


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


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