For the similar and often accompanying star symbol for the Sun, see Utu.
Star of Ishtar
The Star of Ishtar or Star of Inanna is a Mesopotamian symbol of the ancient Sumerian goddess Inanna and her East Semitic counterpart Ishtar. The owl was also one of Ishtar's primary symbols. Ishtar is mostly associated with the planet Venus, which is also known as the morning star.
The StarofIshtar or Starof Inanna is a Mesopotamian symbol of the ancient Sumerian goddess Inanna and her East Semitic counterpart Ishtar. The owl was...
and Assyrians as Ishtar (and occasionally the logogram 𒌋𒁯). Her primary title was "the Queen of Heaven". She was the patron goddess of the Eanna temple...
Mesopotamian art. Exceptionally, a combination of the crescent of Sin with the five-pointed starofIshtar, with the star placed inside the crescent as in the later...
star logo has been used by the band Faith No More, although the creator said it was an homage to the Symbol of Chaos. Leningrad Codex StarofIshtar Shamsa...
the star of Ishtar and avoided pan-Arab symbolism. Flag of Iraq from 1959 to 1963 with the starofIshtar in the middle. The overthrow of Qasim's government...
character Seljuk star Shamsa StarofIshtar – symbol of the ancient Sumerian goddess Inanna and her East Semitic counterpart Ishtar and Roman Venus. Seshat...
Uzbekistan Emblem of Azerbaijan Emblem of Karakalpakstan Emblem of Uzbekistan Emblem of Turkmenistan Sujud Starof Lakshmi StarofIshtar Shamsa Mandala...
The Ishtar Gate was the eighth gate to the inner city of Babylon (in the area of present-day Hillah, Babil Governorate, Iraq). It was constructed c. 569...
the ancient goddess Ishtar, the hotel opened in 1982 as the Ishtar Sheraton Hotel & Casino (Arabic, فندق شيراتون عشتار). It was one of the most popular western-run...
the star, as with the StarofIshtar.[citation needed] Solar System portal Outer space portal Astronomy portal Outline of Venus Physical properties of planets...
affects the unity of Iraqi people and takes land from Iraq. The main policy of Qasimism is Iraqi nationalism, which is the unity and equality of all ethnicities...
Iraq StarofIshtar Ziggurat Lion of Babylon (statue) Lion of Judah Benjamin Sass, Joachim Marzahn. Aramaic and figural stamp impressions on bricks of the...
pan-Arab symbolism, merging the starof Shamash and the starofIshtar. The sun god was traditionally viewed as a son of the moon god in Mesopotamian religion...
celestial emblems, the sun disk of Shamash (Utu to the Sumerians), the crescent of Sin (Nanna), and the starofIshtar (Inanna to the Sumerians)". Irving...
Sun in the middle to represent the Iraqi Kurds, surrounded by the red StarofIshtar to represent ancient Mesopotamian history. After Qassim was overthrown...
of the planet Venus (symbolized as the eight pointed StarofIshtar), and Utu/Shamash, the god of the Sun (symbolized as a disc, optionally with eight...
appears to combine designs of Islamic and Christian tradition based on Coptic and Byzantine art, or even the Sumerian StarofIshtar. In Norway, the pattern...
correspond with the movements of Venus in the sky. Inanna-Ishtar's most common symbol was the eight-pointed star. The eight-pointed star seems to have originally...
Hellenized form of the Ancient Near Eastern goddess ʿAṯtart. ʿAṯtart was the Northwest Semitic equivalent of the East Semitic goddess Ishtar. Astarte was...
Ishtarof Arbela or the Lady of Arbela (Akkadian: dbēlat(gašan)-uruarba-il) was a prominent goddess of the Neo-Assyrian Empire. She was the tutelary goddess...
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Agatha and the Curse ofIshtar is a 2019 British alternative history television drama film about crime writer Agatha Christie becoming embroiled in a...
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