ishtar

Using hate instead of love, and then sometimes having to retract web pages when proven wrong like the Jesus is Horus thing or the Easter is Ishtar thing.

Out of 50 cards, there are only 2 clear stinkers: Balance of Ishtar and Idol of the Familiar.

Although the Pergamon Museum also has the Ishtar Gate which was basically smuggled out of Iraq brick by brick.

Sumerian Inanna => Babylonian Ishtar => Greek Aphrodite => Roman Venus or Babylonian Marduk => Greek Zeus => Roman Jupiter).

The man who predicted the iPhone would be a bigger marketing flop than Ishtar and Waterworld.

The Pergamon kept the Ishtar gate through bombings in WW2 and the GDR.

The Ishtar Gate in Berlin is an example of this that really works.

Pleasantly surprised to see Ishtar Collective posted here, and SCP to boot!

The connection between Easter and Ishtar is a modern myth.

I assume that the 'fluidity' is referring to Ishtar _herself_ rather than the behaviour of her worshippers, though like I say above I'm pretty sure the author is being somewhat tongue in cheek.

Or the Ishtar Gate[1] parts which were smuggled out of Egypt by the germans and then bits were sent off to museums in the US, Denmark, Canada etc.

This has been cited for the Elgin marbles for example, and US museums for indigenous cultural artifacts, and even by the Germans in WW2 to justify keeping things like the Ishtar gate as they were being bombed.

Also worth noting that the whole "Easter sounds like Ishtar" thing is shaky at best.

Plus, "Ishtar" isn't even the most common or original name for the goddess Inanna (Sumerian) and Astarte (Phoenician/Canaanite) were more widespread depending on the period and region.

I've spent a fair amount of time studying ancient Sumerian culture and religion as a hobby, and the often repeated claim that "Easter comes from Ishtar" just doesn't hold up to even minimal scrutiny.

There's a fascinating internet trend named "Bronze Age Shitposting" - clips usually featuring The Epic of Gilgamesh as sung by Peter Pringle and/or Hymn to Ishtar as read by Karl Hecker, inserted into various scenes from movies, series etc.

The point of heroic tales such as Gilgamesh was to draw tribute and sacrifices to the temple of Ishtar.

There's no serious academic support for a connection between the Christian holiday of Easter and the Mesopotamian goddess Inanna/Ishtar.

I am not certain about Ishtar's priesthood, you may be correct.