A Tale of the Goddess Ishtar

A Tale of the Goddess Ishtar Ishtar is the East Semitic Akkadian, Assyrian and Babylonian goddess of fertility, love, war, and sex. She is the counterpart to the Sumerian Inanna, and is the cognate for the Northwest Semitic Aramean goddess Astarte. Ishtar, goddess, inanna, astarte, isis, erishkigal, Babylonia, Sumeria, Pantheon, Aramean, Ninurta, Gilgamesh, Mesopotamia, Assyria Music: "Finding the Balance" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/