Ishtar and Tammuz are the protagonists of one of the world’s first love stories. In love poetry telling of their courtship, the two have a very affectionate relationship.

Babylonian: Ishtar and Tammuz Ishtar, sometimes considered a war-goddess and sometimes a goddess of love and voluptuousness, in her youth loved Tammuz ...

Some time later, Ishtar became pregnant, supposedly by the rays of Baal. Unfortunately, the son she bore, Tammuz, was killed by a wild boar as he was hunting. Semiramis proclaimed that Tammuz was ...