Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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Goddess name "Inana, Istar,Ishtar" | Akkadian / Sumerian | The most important of all Mesopotamian goddesses, and a multi-faceted personality, occurring in cuneiform texts of all periods. The Sumerian name probably means "Lady of heaven", and the Akkadian name Ishtar is related to the Syrian Astarte and the biblical Ashtaroth is usually considered as a daughter of Anzu, with her cult located in Uruk, but there are other traditions as to her ancestry, and it is probable that these reflect originally different goddesses that were identified with her. Ishtar is the subiect of a cycle of texts describing her love affair and ultimately fatal relationship with Tammuz. |
Goddess name "Inanna" | Mesopotamia | Inana, the original "Holy Virgin," as the Sumerians called her, is the first known divinity åśśociated with the planet Venus. This Sumerian goddess became identified with the Semitic goddesses Ishtar and later Astarte, Egyptian Isis, Greek Aphrodite, Etruscan Turan and the Roman Venus. Mesopotamia |
Goddess name "Ipet/ Ipi" | Egypt | She started life as a hippopotamus goddess |
Goddess name "Ipy" | Egypt | Mother goddess. In the Pyramid Texts Ipy appears occasionally as a benevolent guardian and wet nurse to the king. She is also perceived to exert a benign influence on amulets. Depicted as a hippopotamus or anthropomorphically with a hippo's head. Also Ipet.... |
Goddess name "Ipy aka Ipet" | Egypt | Apet, Opet, a benign hippopotamus goddess known as a protective and nourishing deity. Egypt |
Goddess name "Is'ara" | Mesopotamian / Babylonian - Akkadian / / western Semitic | Goddess of marriage and childbirth. Also a deity concerned with the enforcing of oaths. Known chiefly from early inscriptions and some Akkadian texts. Her Mesopotamian cult center was the Babylonian town of Kisurra, but she is also thought to have been worshiped across a wide area among Syrians, Canaanites and Hittites. Her symbol is the scorpion. Also Es ara.... |
God name "Ishkur" | Mesopotamia | God of the storm and Rain. Mesopotamia |
God name "Isimud" | Mesopotamian / Sumerian | Messenger god. Readily identified by possessing two faces looking in opposite directions, Isimud is the messenger of the god ENKI. Also Isinu; Usumu (Akkadian).... |
God name "Isinu" | Mesopotamian | A two-faced god who carried messages for Enki. Mesopotamian |
God name "Iskur" | Mesopotamia | Chief Rain and thunder god Mesopotamia / Sumeria / Iraq |
God name "Ismud" | Mesopotamia | Dual-faced messenger god. Mesopotamia |
Goddess name "Istar" | Akkadia | Goddess of fertility and war known as the star of heaven Babylon / Mesopotamia / Akkadia |
Goddess name "Istar/ Estar" | Mesopotamia / Babylon / Akkadia | A goddess of fertility & war known as the star of heaven |
God name "Istaran" | Mesopotamia | Tutelary god of the city of Der Mesopotamia / Sumeria |
God name "Isum" | Akkadia | Minor god, possibly a god of fire Babylon / Mesopotamia / Akkadia |
God name "Istaran" | Mesopotamian / Sumerian | Local god. The tutelary god of the city of Der, east of the river Tigris in northern Babylonia. Also GUSILIM.... |
God name "Isum" | Mesopotamian / BabylonianAkkadian | Minor god. The brother of SAMAS', the Sun god, and an attendant of the plague god ERRA. He may have been a god of fire and, according to texts, led the gods in war as a herald but was nonetheless generally regarded as benevolent. Known particularly from the Babylonian legend of Erra and Isum. Also ENDURSAGA.... |
Goddess name "Iusaas" | Egypt | A goddess of Heliopolis whose name means, "she comes who is great". She plays a crucial role as the feminine principle in the creation of the world. Egypt |