Ishtar
Obstinacy - the leader
Inanna or Ishtar was worshipped in Sumer at least as early as the Uruk period (c. 4000 BC – c. 3100 BC). Ishtar’s primary legacy from the Sumerian tradition is the role of fertility figure; then evolved, however, into a more complex character, surrounded in myth by death and disaster, a goddess of contradictory connotations and forces—fire and fire-quenching, rejoicing and tears, fair play and enmity. Ishtar's most famous myth is the story of her descent into and return from Kur, the ancient Sumerian Underworld.
Ishtar the Babylonian goddess of war, sex, love, and fertility, was the guardian spirit of life, and creator of wisdom. She was a powerful, fearsome, often violent deity, sometimes known as the "Lady of Battles," by her own people, or the "Whore of Babylon" in the Old Testament. Unlike later, male-dominated pantheistic systems, Ishtar's powers reached beyond what were later to be classified as "female" and "male" roles. Myths attributed to her involve sacrifice and resurrection, and both political and sexual power for women.
Ishtar the Babylonian goddess of war, sex, love, and fertility, was the guardian spirit of life, and creator of wisdom. She was a powerful, fearsome, often violent deity, sometimes known as the "Lady of Battles," by her own people, or the "Whore of Babylon" in the Old Testament. Unlike later, male-dominated pantheistic systems, Ishtar's powers reached beyond what were later to be classified as "female" and "male" roles. Myths attributed to her involve sacrifice and resurrection, and both political and sexual power for women.
Music: Catherine Capozzi and Christine Zufferey
Film: Andrea Wolanin
Original Art and background on Ishtar: Nina Schiarizzi Dancer: Pinky Mink
Film: Andrea Wolanin
Original Art and background on Ishtar: Nina Schiarizzi Dancer: Pinky Mink