Ishtar | |
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love, 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
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Planet | Venus |
Symbol | hook-shaped knot of reeds, Star of Ishtar, lion, rod-and-ring symbol, symbolic staff, |
Consort |
Tammuz other consorts |
Parents | Anu |
Equivalents | |
Greek equivalent | Aphrodite |
Canaanite equivalent | Astarte |
Sumerian equivalent | Inanna |