Ishtar is the ivory bosomed goddess of Koth, Shem, Khoraja and the East In general. She is the daughter of Anu, as well as his second consort. She is the queen of heaven, a goddess of fertility and war. According to the Semites, Ishtar is the daughter of Anu and the sister of Adonis, her lover, or in Pelishtia, the sister and lover of gross Pteor. She is the dominant one of the pair, sexually aggressive, as befits a fertile war goddess, she is a goddess of desire and the arts as a goddess of the arts. She knows that the greatest art often comes from sorrow and pain, so she often sends such dooms to man in order to bolster the art of the world.
She is said to have been birthed full grown from a stone cracked open by a bolt of green lightning cast by Anu. On the site where a Asgalun now stands, Anu sends forth reign his seed to fertilize the earth at Ishtar’s bidding. Thus, the priests and priestesses of Ishtar work with the kings and queens of Shem, training people to follow the law of their rulers as a religious duty. Ishtar’s symbol is an 8 or 16 pointed star. She is also represented by the sacred number 15 and by her sacred animal, The Lion, which she is sometimes pictured as riding.
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