Diana's name is also used as the third divine name in a Wiccan energy chant-" Isis Astarte Diana Hecate Demeter Kali Inanna ".

Europa ( in Greek: broad-eyes ) was a Phoenecian princess who Zeus transformed into a white bull abducted and carried her to Creta, and is equated with Astarte as a moon goddess by ancient sources.

A nearly identical story is told by Plutarch, in his On Isis and Osiris, of the goddess Isis burning away the mortality of Prince Maneros of Byblos, son of Queen Astarte, and being likewise interrupted before completing the process.

The paradox, as it seemed to Lucian, would be solved if Europa is Astarte in her guise as the full, " broad-faced " moon.

It is there that the myth of Astarte ( Venus ) and Adonis was born.

She is the counterpart to the Sumerian Inanna and to the cognate north-west Semitic goddess Astarte.

Here it is said that the previous king, Phelles, “ was slain by Ithobalus, the priest of Astarte, who reigned thirty-two years, and lived sixty-eight years ; he was succeeded by his son Badezorus ( Baal-Eser II ).”

Her symbol is remarkably similar to the Egyptian ankh and her shrine, excavated at Sarepta in southern Phoenicia, revealed an inscription that related her securely to the Phoenician goddess Astarte ( Ishtar ).

She is associated with Anat, Astarte, and Asherah.

Qudshu-Astarte-Anat is a representation of a single goddess who is a combination of three goddesses: Qetesh ( Athirat " Asherah "), Astarte, and Anat.

Omri and Ithobaal were both usurpers ; neither was the member of a royal family before they took the throne, and so it is not reasonable that, before they became kings, an Israelite general would seek out a priest of Astarte in the kingdom of Tyre and Sidon to get a wife for his young son Ahab.

Also remarkable in this sense is the Fanum Iunonis of Malta ( of the Hellenistic period ) which has yielded dedicatory inscriptions to Astarte and Tanit.

Astarte (, " Astártē ") is the Greek name of a goddess known throughout the Eastern Mediterranean from the Bronze Age to Classical times.

A bilingual inscription on the Pyrgi Tablets dating to about 500 found near Caere in Etruria equates Astarte with Etruscan Uni-Astre that is, Juno.

Astarte appears in Ugaritic texts under the name ʻAthtart ', but is little mentioned in those texts.

Indeed there is a statue of the 6th century BC in the Cairo Museum, which normally would be taken as portraying Isis with her child Horus on her knee and which in every detail of iconography follows normal Egyptian conventions, but the dedicatory inscription reads: " Gersaphon, son of Azor, son of Slrt, man of Lydda, for his Lady, for Astarte.

Ashteroth Karnaim ( Astarte was called Ashteroth in the Hebrew Bible ) was a city in the land of Bashan east of the Jordan River, mentioned in and ( where it is rendered solely as Ashteroth ).

Some scholars claim that the cult of the Minoan snake goddess who is identified with Ariadne ( the " utterly pure ") was similar to the cult of Astarte.

Her name is the second name in an energy chant sometimes used in Wicca: " Isis, Astarte, Diana, Hecate, Demeter, Kali, Inanna.

This is the name of the goddess Astarte, the Ishtar of the Babylonians and perhaps also the Isis of the Egyptians ”.

The bright star they see is Astarte, a goddess associated with Venus and connected with fertility and sexuality.

Phoenician transcription as ספתח, and Neo-Babylonian transcription < sup > I </ sup > si-ip-ta-ḫu ( Vittmann, Göttinger Miszellen 70, p. 65 ), cited in Muchiki, Egyptian Proper Names and Loanwords, 29 .</ ref > Moreover, This recalls the syncretic mythology in the Late Egyptian Hieratic story of " Astarte and the Sea ," wherein Semitic Astarte is also called " Daughter-of-Ptah.

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.