Usually means: Ancient Mesopotamian goddess of love.
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▸ noun:  (Mesopotamian mythology) 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.

Similar:
mylitta, Inanna, Astarte, Ashtoreth, Anat, Venus, Isis, Astghik, Eris, Aphrodite, more...

Types:
goddess, queen, lover, warrior, mother, daughter, sister, wife, more...

Phrases:
Ishtar Gate, ishtar terra, Star of Ishtar, Agatha and the Curse of Ishtar, more...

Adjectives:
lipit, babylonian, great, semitic, inanna, mesopotamian, libit, mighty, assyrian, glorious, ubil
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Similar:
mylitta, Inanna, Astarte, Ashtoreth, Anat, Venus, Isis, Astghik, Eris, Aphrodite, more...

Types:
goddess, queen, lover, warrior, mother, daughter, sister, wife, more...

Phrases:
Ishtar Gate, ishtar terra, Star of Ishtar, Agatha and the Curse of Ishtar, more...

Adjectives:
lipit, babylonian, great, semitic, inanna, mesopotamian, libit, mighty, assyrian, glorious, ubil



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