it is Astarte, Ishtar, Venus, Yahwe, Dionysus, Christ, the mysterious and divine orgone energy flowing through the body of the universe.

An alternative view is that Esther is derived from the theonym Ishtar.

Hoschander alternatively suggested Ishtar-udda-sha (" Ishtar is her light ") as the origin with the possibility of-udda-sha being connected with the similarly sounding Hebrew name Hadassah.

Image: Pergamonmuseum Babylon Ischtar-Tor. jpg | Ishtar Gate is the oldest city gate in existence

The ziggurat is the most distinctive form, and cities often had large gateways, of which the Ishtar Gate from Neo-Babylonian Babylon, decorated with beasts in polychrome brick, is the most famous, now largely in the Pergamon Museum in Berlin.

The historic Nineveh is mentioned about 1800 BC as a centre of worship of Ishtar, whose cult was responsible for the city's early importance.

* c. 1750 BCE: Investiture of Zimrilim ( Zimiri-Lim, King of Mari, before the Goddess Ishtar ), facsimile of a wall painting on mud plaster from the Zimrilim palace at Mari ( modern Tell Hariri, Iraq ), Court 106, is made.

The best known of his historical novels is The Dragon of the Ishtar Gate.

* 575 BC — Ishtar Gate and throne room wall, from Babylon ( Iraq ) is made.

He is also credited for the construction of the Ishtar Gate, one of the eight gates leading into the city of Babylon.

This is the familiar form of the myth as it appeared in M. Jastrow's Descent of the Goddess Ishtar into the Lower World, 1915, widely available on the Internet.

Ishtar ( pronounced ; Transliteration: < sup > D </ sup > IŠTAR ; Akkadian: DINGIR INANNA ; Sumerian ) is the Assyrian and Babylonian goddess of fertility, war, love, and sex.

Then Ishtar passes back through the seven gates, getting one article of clothing back at each gate, and is fully clothed as she exits the last gate.

While Gilgamesh and Enkidu are resting, Ishtar stands upon the walls of the city ( which is Uruk ) and curses Gilgamesh.

Ishtar appears in the movies Blood Feast ( 1963 ) and Blood Diner ( 1987 ), although she is referred to as an Egyptian god.

The sequel to Blood Feast, Blood Feast 2: All U Can Eat ( 2002 ) also features Ishtar, but it is explained that she is Babylonian, even though " everyone seems to think she's Egyptian.

In Red River ( manga ), the character Yuri is said to be Ishtar incarnate.

In the game Eve Online, Ishtar is the name of an Heavy Assault cruiser of the Gallente federation.

In the game Catherine, Ishtar appears as Trisha, The Midnight Venus, and the myth is told in the " Rapunzel " game.

In the anime Yu-Gi-Oh !, the antagonistic character Marik Ishtar is presumably named for this goddess.

Ishtar is also a love interest for Destruction of The Endless in Neil Gaiman's Sandman comic book series.

Her Akkadian counterpart is Ishtar.

* Ishtaritu specialized in the arts of dancing, music, and singing and they served in the temples of Ishtar.

) Then Ishtar called together " her people, the dancing and singing girls, the prostitutes of the temple, the courtesans ," and had them mourn for the Bull of Heaven.

* Ishtaritu were temple prostitutes who specialized in the arts of dancing, music, and singing and served in the temples of Ishtar.

The story focuses on reporter Hibiki Kanzaki, who is caught in the middle of the action when he rescues an Emulator, Ishtar, while covering a battle between the U. N. Spacy and the Marduk.

His friendship with Hibiki is good enough such that he is the one Hibiki turns to when the latter decides to harbor Ishtar after rescuing her on an assignment.

Ishtar, a Babylonian Goddess, wore a fertility girdle, which, when it was removed, rendered the Universe barren.

E. von der Osten-Sacken describes evidence for a weakly developed but nevertheless existing cult for Ereshkigal ; she cites aspects of similarity between the goddesses Ishtar and Ereshkigal from textual sources – for example they are called " sisters " in the myth of " Inanna's descent into the nether world " – and she finally explains the unique doubled rod-and-ring symbol in the following way: " Ereshkigal would be shown here at the peak of her power, when she had taken the divine symbols from her sister and perhaps also her identifying lions ".

Dream inquires and warns Ishtar, and she reveals that she loved his brother.

The name probably means " she who ( comes ) at dusk ," which would identify Aphrodite in her personification as the evening star, a significant parallel she shares with Mesopotamian Ishtar.

Her chief center of worship was at Paphos, where the goddess of desire had been worshipped from the early Iron Age in the form of Ishtar and Astarte.

Sargon was claimed to be the son of La ' ibum or Itti-Bel, a humble gardener, and possibly a hierodule, or priestess to Ishtar or Inanna.

File: Ishtar goddess. jpg | Room 56-The famous Babylonian ' Queen of the Night relief ' of the goddess Ishtar, circa 1790 BC

Ishtar ( Inanna ) was the main goddess of Babylonia and Assyria.

Outside of Jewish tradition, Lilith was associated with the Mother Goddess, Inanna – later known as both Ishtar and Asherah.

In The Epic of Gilgamesh, Gilgamesh was said to have destroyed a tree that was in a sacred grove dedicated to the goddess Ishtar / Inanna / Asherah.

The two snakes coiled around a stick was a symbol of the god Ningishzida, which served as a mediator between humans and the mother goddess Ishtar or the supreme Ningirsu.

Similarities have been noted also with the story of Ishtar's or Inanna's descent into the underworld, Ishtar and Inanna being associated with the planet Venus.

Mesopotamia, as shown by successive law codes, those of Urukagina, Lipit Ishtar and Hammurabi, across its history became more and more a patriarchal society, one in which the men were far more powerful than the women.

The codes of Urukagina and Lipit Ishtar have been found.

Possibly it meant originally the seat of Ishtar, since Nina was one of the Babylonian names of that goddess.

The area was settled as early as 6000 BC and, by 3000 BC, had become an important religious center for worship of the Assyrian goddess Ishtar.

One such event destroyed the first temple of Ishtar which was then rebuilt in 2260 BC by the Akkadian king Manishtusu.

Thereafter successive monarchs such as Sargon II, Esarhaddon, Sennacherib and Ashurbanipal kept in repair and founded new palaces, temples to Sîn, Ashur, Nergal, Šamaš, Ishtar, and Nabiu of Borsippa.

Hoffman's largest film failure was Elaine May's Ishtar, with Warren Beatty.

Hoffmann and Beatty were unaffected by the flop, and Ishtar became a cult film.