Enkidu challenges Gilgamesh to a test of strength. #Gilgamesh, who is a demigod of superhuman strength, wins the contest and the two become friends. Together, they embark on many journeys, and eventually have to fight the Bull of Heaven after Gilgamesh rejects #Ishtar's offer to become her consort. Gilgamesh and Enkidu kill the Bull of Heaven, insulting Ishtar in the process, after which the gods decide to sentence #Enkidu to death and kill him by giving him a fatal illness.
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Fragments of huge relief discovered at Nineveh:
https://www.uni-heidelberg.de/en/newsroom/spectacular-find-in-the-ancient-city-of-nineveh
#Nineveh #Mesopotamia #Assyria #Ashur #Inanna #Ishtar #Ashurbanipal #history #archaeology #QueenOfHeaven
Watching Godzilla Minus One with Ishtar but she's finding it to be too much talk and not enough destruction
Kitty not sold on the open air and the laughter of children
"To enter the Forbidden Tunnel bears the penalty of death."
#Ishtar #tortitude #FuzzyFriday #FurryFriday #ShaggyKitty #tortoiseshell #MadCat
Happy 1st birthday to baby Ishtar, cute and very hardass little kitten
#tortitude #TortieCats #Ishtar #HappyBirthdayKitten #EastVan
It's the Day of Ares / Mars' Day / #Tuesday! 
#Inanna or #Ishtar is the ancient Mesopotamian goddess of love, war & fertility. In one Akkadian hymn, Ishtar transforms men into women. Priests known as gala worked in her temples, where they performed elegies and lamentations. Gala sometimes adopted female names and some Sumerian proverbs seem to suggest that gala had a reputation for engaging in anal sex with men.
‘‘ #Assurbanipal roi d’Assyrie’’
L’Assyrie fut connue dans l’antiquité d’abord par son Etat organisé grâce à une administration et des scribes efficaces, ensuite par sa politique belliciste et expansionniste. Mais sur le plan politique elle fut une monarchie de droit divin dont le Roi était intronisé par la divinité, à la tête d’un empire multiculturel.
Kitten surely does love and hate that box. #Caturday #Ishtar #tortitude #HatesBoxes
@bookstodon Highly recommend the "Empires of Bronze" series by Gordon Doherty: https://www.smashwords.com/books/byseries/47582
A beautiful queen descends to the Underworld to understand death, then returns to find her unfaithful consort has taken her throne. Meg Elison notes that this isn’t just the myth of Inanna – it’s also the plot to Greta Gerwig’s new film BARBIE.
Ancient Babylon lion
YOU CAN FIND IT HERE:
https://fineartamerica.com/featured/ancient-babylon-lion-patricia-hofmeester.html
By https://buff.ly/3i3uCm2 #WallArt #homedecor #fineart #BuyIntoArt #AYearForArt #LoveArt #BuyArtNotCandy #photography #SpringIntoArt @PatriciaPhotos #babylon #lion #ancient #Ishtar #gate #ancient #historical #glazed #tiles
The Lion, the Dragon, and the Bull on the #Ishtar Gate of #Babylon
https://www.asor.org/anetoday/2023/04/ishtar-gate-babylon/
#archaeology #ancienthistory #mesopotamia #ancientneareast
Image: A reconstructed lion of the Processional Way representing the goddess Ishtar (Staatliche Museen zu Berlin – Vorderasiatisches Museum, Photo: Olaf M. Teßmer).
Happy Ishtar
Tree screen from McMichael Gallery grounds, Kleinburg
The word Easter appears to be derived not from Ishtar, but from the German Eostre, the goddess of the dawn—a bringer of light.
Ishtar and Easter appear to be homophones: they may be pronounced similarly, but have different meanings.
Don't believe every meme.
https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/anthropology-in-practice/beyond-ishtar-the-tradition-of-eggs-at-easter/
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