ISHTAR

Meaning of ISHTAR in English

/ish"tahr/ , n.

the Assyrian and Babylonian goddess of love and war, identified with the Phoenician Astarte, the Semitic Ashtoreth, and the Sumerian Inanna. Also called Mylitta .

Random House Webster's Unabridged English dictionary. Полный английский словарь Вебстер - Random House . 2012

ISHTAR — In Known as Ishtar in Akkadia, she was called {{link=Astarte">Astarte by western Semitic peoples and was identified with Inanna in …
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ISHTAR — n. ancient Assyrian and Babylonian goddess of love fertility and war
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ISHTAR — (Akkadian), Sumerian Inanna in Mesopotamian religion, goddess of war and sexual love. Ishtar is the Akkadian counterpart of the West …
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ISHTAR — Ishtar BrE AmE ˈɪʃt ɑː AmE \ -ɑːr
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ISHTAR — n. In Mesopotamian religion , the goddess of war and sexual love. Known as Ishtar in Akkadia, she was called …
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ISHTAR — Random stuff. Example: I got all kinds of ishtar in my room.
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ISHTAR — [Mesopotamian] Ishtar was the ancient Sumero-Babylonian goddess of love and fertility. She is often described as the daughter of Anu, …
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ISHTAR — Иштар
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ISHTAR GATE — Enormous burnt-brick double entryway built in the ancient city of Babylon с 575 BC. The gate was more than 38 …
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ISHTAR GATE — enormous burnt-brick entryway located over the main thoroughfare in the ancient city of Babylon (now in Iraq). It was built …
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VIRGO — I (Latin; " Virgin " or " Maiden ") In astronomy, the constellation lying between Leo and Libra; in astrology …
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VENUS — I Roman goddess of cultivated fields and gardens, later associated with Aphrodite . She was the daughter of Jupiter and …
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SIN — Sumerian Nanna In He was the father of {{link=Shamash">Shamash and, in some myths, of Ishtar . Sin was thought to …
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SHAMASH — In Sin , and the goddess Ishtar , was part of an astral triad of divinities. As the solar god, …
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GILGAMESH — Hero of the ancient Epic of Gilgamesh. The great literary work of ancient {{link=Mesopotamia">Mesopotamia , the epic is known from …
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ERESHKIGAL — In Her chief enemy was her sister {{link=Ishtar">Ishtar , a fertility goddess and guardian of life. Namtar, the death-bringing demon, …
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DUMUZI-AMAUSHUMGALANA — In He was the young bridegroom of the fertility goddess Inanna or {{link=Ishtar">Ishtar . Their marriage was celebrated annually as …
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ARTEMIS — In Greek religion , the goddess of wild animals, the hunt, vegetation, chastity, and childbirth. Artemis was the daughter of …
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VENUS — Venus with Cupid and a dolphin, classical sculpture; in the Museo Nazionale Romano, Rome ancient Italian goddess associated with cultivated …
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TUKULTI-NINURTA I — (reigned c. 1243c. 1207 BC), king of Assyria who asserted Assyrian supremacy over King Kashtiliashu IV, ruler of Kassite-controlled Babylonia …
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SHAMASH — (Akkadian), Sumerian Utu in Mesopotamian religion, the god of the sun, who, with the moon god, Sin (Sumerian: Nanna), and …
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MESOPOTAMIA, HISTORY OF — Sites associated with ancient Mesopotamian history. history of the region in southwestern Asia where the world's earliest civilization developed. The …
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HEBRAIC LAW — body of ancient Hebrew law codes found in various places in the Old Testament and similar to earlier law codes …
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GILGAMESH — the best known of all ancient Mesopotamian heroes. Numerous tales in the Akkadian language have been told about Gilgamesh, and …
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ASHUR — also spelled Assur, modern Qal'at Sharqat ancient religious capital of Assyria, located on the west bank of the Tigris River …
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VENUS — n. Roman goddess of cultivated fields and gardens, later associated with Aphrodite . She was the daughter of Jupiter and …
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GILGAMESH — n. Hero of the ancient Akkadian-language Epic of Gilgamesh. The great literary work of ancient Mesopotamia , the epic is …
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TAMMUZ — [Mesopotamian] The Akkadian vegetation-god, counterpart of the Sumerian Damuzi and the symbol of death and rebirth in nature. He is …
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NINATTA — [Mesopotamian] A goddess of music, serving Ishtar. She and Kulitta accompanied Ishtar's hymns when she sang passionately of her love …
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KULITTA — [Mesopotamian] A goddess of music, serving Ishtar. She and Ninatta accompanied Ishtar's hymns when she sang passionately of her love …
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ASHTORETH — (a star) the principal female divinity of the Phoenicians, called Ishtar by the Assyrians and Astarte by the Greeks and …
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