This video answers the question - who is Ishtar / Inanna?

Ishtar / Inanna was the goddess of life and fertility. Her primary legacy from the Sumerian tradition is the role of a fertility figure. She evolved, however, into a more complex character, surrounded in myth by death and disaster, a goddess of contradictory connotations and forces.

Ishtar is also an astral deity, associated with the planet Venus. With Shamash, the sun god, and Sin, the moon god, she forms an astral trinity. In this form, her symbol is a star with 6, 8 or 16 rays within a circle. As goddess of Venus, delighting in bodily love, Ishtar was the protector of prostitutes and patron of the alehouse. Part of her cult worship probably also included temple prostitution.

In later myths, she was known as Queen of the Universe, taking on the powers of An, Enlil and Enki.

Credits / Sources
- Britannica ([ Ссылка ])
- World History Encyclopedia ([ Ссылка ])

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