“Inanna (Ishtar), goddess of love and war, was the most powerful female deity in the Mesopotamian pantheon, and venerated both as a protector and as one of the celestial sources of the reigning ...

Gilgamesh is the semi-mythic King of Uruk best known as the hero of the the great Babylonian Poem and Mesopotamian Epic ... The Opera Begins. Ishtar (Jane Sheldon), the goddess of love ...

For when Ishtar’s attempt to seduce Gilgamesh – she is the god of love and war ... But there’s no denying that his dying and descent into Kish – the Mesopotamian hell – accompanied by a quietly ...

A bundle of reeds is a powerful emblem, and they are symbolic of the Mesopotamian goddess of life, Ishtar. Ishtar represents the divine feminine and the power of creation. A sacred bundle of reeds as ...

Ninewa, Diyala, Salah Al-Din, Anbar, Kirkuk, and many other ancient Mesopotamian towns are places where the first civilizations flourished, and where centuries-old legends were passed down from ...

Each panel depicts a cultic scene involving a procession of statues of the seven principal Assyrian deities—Ashur, Mullissu, Sin, Nabu, Shamash, Adad, and Ishtar—standing atop striding animals.

The ruthless ruler: Sinahheriba, the feared king of Assyria, drives in his chariot. Sinahheriba destroyed Babylon in 689 ... In an ancient Akkadian tablet, the sun god Shamash appears between the ...

The tablet is inscribed on both sides with ruled lines of text written in the Old Assyrian dialect of the Akkadian language ... What is preserved records a debt (line 2: hubullum) of 2 1/2 minas and 8 ...

Miss Brikha says she chose the name of Ishtar because Ishtar is the symbol ... naseem Sadiq Source: SBS Assyrian Facebook has banned the posting and sharing of news content in Australia.

President of Assyrian Aid Society and event’s organiser June Ishtar Jako was relieved that the concert went as planned and audience had a wonderful and entertaining time. Mrs Jako said the AAS ...