Associations to the word «Ishtar»

Wiktionary

ISHTAR, proper noun. A goddess of fertility, love, sex and war. In the Babylonian pantheon, she was the divine personification of the planet Venus; the Assyrian and Babylonian counterpart to the Sumerian Inanna and to the northwest-Semitic goddess Astarte.

Dictionary definition

ISHTAR, noun. Babylonian and Assyrian goddess of love and fertility and war; counterpart to the Phoenician Astarte.

Wise words

To use the same words is not a sufficient guarantee of understanding; one must use the same words for the same genus of inward experience; ultimately one must have one's experiences in common.
Friedrich Nietzsche