Ishtar

[ ish-tahr ]

/ ˈɪʃ tɑr /

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

Also called Mylitta.

Example sentences from the Web for ishtar

The name Easter may, or may not, be derived from the Sumerian goddess Inanna, or Ishtar—the source of the Hebrew name Esther.

Meet Krampus, the Seriously Bad Santa |Jay Michaelson |December 5, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
Belle Jar has more: Ishtar was the goddess of love, war and sex.

Happy Easter, Which is Not Named After Ishtar, Okay? |Megan McArdle |March 29, 2013 |DAILY BEAST
Anyway, the point I am trying to make here is that, yes, Ishtar was associated with fertility and sex.

Happy Easter, Which is Not Named After Ishtar, Okay? |Megan McArdle |March 29, 2013 |DAILY BEAST
How Ishtar came to take on so violent a character is not altogether clear.

The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria |Morris Jastrow

If parents threw their children into the furnace to Molech, why should they not devote their daughters to Ishtar?

Folkways |William Graham Sumner
Again Sarchedon glanced at Ishtar; but her veil was down, and she made no sign.

Sarchedon |G. J. (George John) Whyte-Melville
Of Tammuz, the popular myth related that it was Ishtar, represented as his consort, who carried him off.

The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria |Morris Jastrow
Next to Ashur, or rather by the side of Ashur, Ishtar was invoked as the great goddess of battle and war.

The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria |Morris Jastrow

Ishtar

/ (ˈɪʃtɑː) /

the principal goddess of the Babylonians and Assyrians; divinity of love, fertility, and war