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Inanna [a] is the ancient Mesopotamian goddess of love, war, and fertility. She is also associated with sensuality, procreation, divine law, and political power.Originally worshipped in Sumer, she was known by the Akkadian Empire, Babylonians, and Assyrians as Ishtar [b] (and occasionally the logogram 𒌋𒁯).
Inanna is the Sumerian goddess of love and war. Despite her association with mating and fertility of humans and animals, Inanna was not a mother goddess and is rarely associated with childbirth. [1] Inanna was also associated with rain and storms and with the planet Venus. [2]
Eostre, Germanic dawn goddess. Freyja, goddess of love/sex, beauty, seiðr, war, and death. Frigg, goddess of marriage and women. Lofn, goddess who has permission from Frigg to arrange forbidden marriages. Sjöfn, goddess associated with love. Statue of Eos Statue of Eros
Her primary role was that of a goddess of love, and she was associated with eroticism and sensuality, though she was also a patron of lovers, including rejected or betrayed ones. Especially in early scholarship, she was often assumed to be a goddess of the planet Venus like Inanna, but this view is no longer supported by most Assyriologists.
Inanna, later known as Ishtar, is "the most important female deity of ancient Mesopotamia at all periods." [95] She was the Sumerian goddess of love, sexuality, prostitution, and war. [97] She was the divine personification of the planet Venus, the morning and evening star. [46]
Ancient Akkadian cylinder seal depicting Inanna resting her foot on the back of a lion while Ninshubur stands in front of her paying obeisance, c. 2334-2154 BC. [34]: 92, 193 Inanna was the Sumerian goddess of love, sexuality, prostitution, and war. [20]: 109 She was the divine personification of the planet Venus, the morning and evening star.
Inanna/Ishtar as harlot or goddess of harlots was a well known theme in Mesopotamian mythology and in one text, Inanna is called kar-kid (harlot) and ab-ba-[šú]-šú, which in Akkadian would be rendered kilili. Thus there appears to be a cluster of metaphors linking prostitute and owl and the goddess Inanna/Ishtar; this could match the most ...
Inanna is a goddess with a multifaceted nature. She is the goddess of love, fertility, war, grain, and prosperity. [16] She is also associated with prostitution and other taboo practices such as sex change, deformity, and disguises. Her domain is so vast that she seems to embody the characteristics of several goddesses that appeared and ...