| Ishtar | |
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| love, beauty, sex, desire, fertility, war, combat, and political power | |
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Old Babylonian relief from the early second millennium BCE showing Ishtar wearing a crown and flounced skirt, holding her symbol, currently held in the Louvre Museum
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| Planet | Venus |
| Symbol | hook-shaped knot of reeds, Star of Ishtar, lion, rod-and-ring symbol, symbolic staff, |
| Consort |
Tammuz other consorts |
| Parents | Anu |
| Equivalents | |
| Greek equivalent | Aphrodite |
| Canaanite equivalent | Astarte |
| Sumerian equivalent | Inanna |