What are the other names of the goddess Ishtar?
The time-line and and morphing of a Goddess (Ishtar) can be perused in the paragraph below. Inana(Nin-ana) of the Sumerians, and the Goddess Estar(Ishtar) of the Aggadians. With the end of the Bronze Age, and the beginning of the Iron Age, Astarte becomes a familiar symbol and name throughout the Eastern Mediterranean Seaboard. The ‘love’ of Astarte is primarily sexual, i.e., prostitution; and in war, her playground is said to be the battlefield. The name of Astarte is closely connected with that of Anat, the Goddess who restores Baal to life by venturing into the underworld and defeats Mot (the restoration may be related to the Egyptian Isis-Osiris motif, and with the underworld venture of Inana motif.
