Goddess Ishtar

 

Babylonian goddess of love and battle, Ishtar.

Ishtar, Inanna's counterpart, is mostly connected with sexual love and monarchy.

Her priestesses are said to have been holy courtesans from the Goddess's temples.

Ishtar's influence is at its peak under the full moon, when she wraps lovers in a cocoon of fertile vitality.

Her fiery temper and determination to avenge wrongs against women and her city have earned her the title of guardian and battle goddess.

~Kiran Atma

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Goddess Inanna

 

Inanna is the Sumerian goddess of love and battle.

Inanna was revered throughout Mesopotamia as the Queen of Heaven and Earth, and was known to the Babylonians as Ishtar.

She is the morning and evening stars, and she is a lunar deity.

Her seductive and sensuous abilities made her a symbol of fertility and mating rites.

Inanna, Ereshkigal's sister, enhances the light side of the soul by teaching knowledge and life and death magick.

She safeguarded her city and people as a battle goddess, delivering justice and enforcing the rules of the realm.

The lion and the eight-pointed star are her emblems.

~Kiran Atma

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Goddess Erua

 

 

Erua, also known as Zarpanitu: Birth goddess in Babylonian mythology.

Erua is in charge of all animals' weddings and births inside her realms.

In Babylon, she was honored every year at the beginning of the year.

Erua, Marduk's consort, may alternatively be referred to as Inanna or Ishtar.

~Kiran Atma

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