Ishtar was named in the Babylonian era as one of the most famous gates of the capital Babylon, Gate of Ishtar. Inanna, the queen of heaven and the symbol of love, beauty, sex, desire, fertility, ...

In her poems, Enheduanna similarly portrays Inanna/Ishtar as a powerful goddess of combat and conquest as well as of love and abundance. And, according to Babcock, ...

Love, it is said, is a battlefield, and it was no more so than for the first goddess of love and war, Ishtar. Her legend has influenced cultural archetypes from Aphrodite to Wonder Woman.

Ishtar, also known as Inanna, was the ancient Mesopotamian goddess of love, war, and fertility. While she is connected to many stories and mythologies across Akkadian and Assyrians cultures, it ...

Yet one of the most prominent deities of antiquity from the Bronze Age onward was Inanna (also known as Ishtar or Astarte), the goddess of war and desire, ancestor to the figure we call Venus or ...