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Ishtar

Mylitta \Mylitta\ prop. n. (Babylonian and Assyrian Mythology) The goddess of love and fertility and war; also called Ishtar; the counterpart of Ashtoreth and Astarte.

Syn: Ishtar.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Ishtar

ancient Sumero-Babylonian goddess of love and fertility, counterpart of Phoenician Astarte (q.v.), from Akkad. Ishtar.

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Ishtar

Ishtar (English pronunciation ; Transliteration: IŠTAR; Akkadian: ; Sumerian????) is the Mesopotamian East Semitic ( Akkadian, Assyrian and Babylonian) goddess of fertility, love, war, and sex. She is the counterpart to the earlier attested Sumerian Inanna, and the cognate for the later attested Northwest Semitic Aramean goddess Astarte. Ishtar was an important deity in Mesopotamian religion which was extant from c.3500 BCE, until its gradual decline between the 1st and 5th centuries CE in the face of Christianity.

Ishtar (film)

Ishtar is a 1987 American action comedy film written and directed by Elaine May and produced by Warren Beatty, who co-starred with Dustin Hoffman. The story revolves around a duo of incredibly untalented American lounge singers who travel to a booking in Morocco and stumble into a four-party Cold War standoff.

Shot on location in Morocco and New York City by cinematographer Vittorio Storaro, the production drew media attention before its release for substantial cost overruns on top of a lavish budget, and reports of clashes between May, Beatty, and Storaro. A change in studio management at Columbia Pictures during post-production also led to professional and personal difficulties that undermined the film's release.

The film polarized critics and became a notorious failure at the box office. Many have considered it to be one of the worst films ever made, although critical support for the film has grown strongly since its release. It was originally released on DVD only in Europe. A director's cut, running two minutes shorter, was released on Blu-ray in North America on August 6, 2013.

Ishtar (disambiguation)

Ishtar is a Mesopotamian deity.

Ishtar may also refer to:

  • Ishtar TV, Iraqi broadcasting company
  • Ishtar (singer), Israeli pop singer; lead singer of Alabina
  • Ishtar Terra, big area of high land on the planet Venus
  • Ishtar Gate, a gate to the inner city of Babylon.
  • Ishtar (Belgian band), Belgian folk group

In fiction:

  • Ishtar (film), a 1987 motion picture comedy
  • Ishtar, the main character of the manga Vampire Game
  • Ishtar, also known as Serris, a creature in the videogame Metroid Fusion
  • Ishtar, a character in the anime Macross II
  • Ishtar, a minor character in the video game Illusion of Gaia
  • Ishtar, an antagonist in the video game Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon: Another Story
  • Ishtar, a character in some of Robert A. Heinlein's Future History
  • Several characters the anime Yu-Gi-Oh!:
    • Marik Ishtar
    • Ishizu Ishtar
    • Rishid Ishtar
  • Ishtar, a fictional planet in Poul Anderson's Fire Time
  • A city in the Fullmetal Alchemist series.
  • Ishtar, a character in the game series The Tower of Druaga
  • A Gallente Heavy Assault Cruiser (HAC) in the game Eve Online
  • Ishtar, a city in the videogame Gothic 3, the capital of Varant and the seat of its king Zuben.
  • Ishtar, an antagonist in the video game Fire Emblem: Genealogy of the Holy War.
Ishtar (singer)

Ishtar (born Esther (Eti) Zach, on 10 November 1968) is an Israeli pop singer who performs in Arabic, Hebrew, Bulgarian, French, Spanish, Russian and English. She is best known for her work as the front vocalist of the French-based band Alabina, and her solo pop hits such as C'est La Vie, Last Kiss, and Habibi (Sawah).

Ishtar (band)

Ishtar is a Belgian (Flemish) folk band who represented Belgium at the 2008 Eurovision Song Contest with the song O Julissi, sung in an imaginary language. They competed in the first semi-final on 20 May 2008.

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.