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Usage examples of ishtar.

Ishtar, named for a goddess not unlike Anahita or Aphrodite except that she is a man as well as a woman.

Ishtar is the most important for it leads straight into the heart of the left bank of Babylon where the temples and palaces and treasuries are.

Babylon, the Babylon of kings and high lords, of perfumed palaces and shining white ziggurats dedicated to Bel-Marduk, to Ia, and to Ishtar.

Curse and rot these lazy pigs - the scum of the Barachas,, by the bowels of Ahriman and the breasts of Ishtar!

I could creep in my fine jeweled slippers into the chapels where the other gods were - Nabu and Ishtar and any god or goddess who had been brought from another city for sanctuary.

O daughter of Babylon Happy shall he be that taketh and dasheth thy children Against a rock Of course, there was always that other Babylon, the Babylon of kings and high lords, of perfumed palaces and shining white ziggurats dedicated to Bel-Marduk, to Ia, and to Ishtar.

Fafhrd and the Mouser thought of Karnak and its obelisks, of the Pharos lighthouse, of the Acropolis, of the Ishtar Gate in Babylon, of the ruins of Khatti, of the Lost City of Ahriman, of those doomful mirage-towers that seamen see where are Scylla and Charybdis.

You see, to make absolutely certain that he's caught, I took the liberty of sending a man to Dumuzi, the high priest of Ishtar in Kish.

My sister-wife Ishtar is director of the rejuvenation clinic and chairman of the board of the medical school, and still finds time to teach.

But I’m married to three of your descendants - Tamara, Ishtar, and Hamadryad - and co-husband to another, Ira Weatheral.

Over a thousand people had died, despite Ishtar City's compartmentalization by corridor and the emergency seals in all dwellings.

Ever since the enthronement of the goddess Ishtar in her temple, in fact.

Since the arrival of Ishtar and her enthronement in the temple, Kish had changed - for the worse.

By Ishtar, I thought I knew all the modes of persuasion there are, but perhaps you, as a veteran Free Companion, know some that I do not.

The Illuminati associate this with Eris, and also with other goddesses from Isis to Ishtar and from Kwannon to Kali—with the Female Principle, yin, in general.