![]() As the goddess of war, she is often shown winged and bearing arms. She is the goddess of love and sexuality, and thus, fertility she is responsible for all life, but she is never a Mother goddess. A multifaceted goddess, Ishtar takes three paramount forms. She shared many aspects with an earlier Sumerian goddess, Inanna (or Inana) the name Ishtar comes from the Semitic language of the Akkadians and is used for the goddess from about 2300 B.C.E. Ishtar, called the Queen of Heaven by the people of ancient Mesopotamia (modern Iraq), was the most important female deity in their pantheon. ![]()
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