“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 ...