Ishtar or Astarte was the seminal Mother goddess of the Mediterranean World.
Her gate in reconstruction is a permanent feature at the National Archeology Museum in Berlin and has been now for well nigh on a hundred years or more. The actual remains of the gate, less those parts looted by German privateer archeologists in the 19th century, lies today with the war torn boundaries of Iraq. Despite the passing of the endless years and the current rain of bombs on that country, it will remain there long past the demise of you and I, witnessing the strange, peculiar nature of the the human spirit down the ages.
Ishtar’s partner is Tammuz the Shepard or the God of Vegetation
Stories of Ishtar or Inanna and her husband-god Tammuz the Shepherd, are complex and endless. A selection can be found here
In the swirling tides of time that flow from her Gate (the womb of her birth), Ishtar was Inanna; she became Lilith, Astaroth, Astarte, Aphrodite, Artemis, Athena; so many names; and with the birth of the Christ Child (a dying and resurrected God like Tammuz, the Goat in the Tree, and Osiris) she hides her self beneath the veil of Virgin Mary and is worshipped worldwide in our modern age today.
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