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-Ishtar is a Mesopotamian goddess of love and war. While Ishtar was originally the name of a goddess worshiped by the Eastern Semitic peoples, around the time of the reign of Sargon of Akkad Ishtar would become seen as another name for the Sumerian goddess [[Inanna]].
+Ishtar is the East Semitic name for [[Inanna]], a Mesopotamian goddess of love and war who is associated with the planet Venus. The name Ishtar is the East Semitic form of the Proto-Semitic theonym *''ʿAṯtar'', which was used by the Semitic peoples to refer to a deity associated with Venus (cf. [[Ashtar]] and [[Astarte]]). East Semitic peoples, influenced by the Sumerian religion, would identify their deity as the same as the Sumerian goddess Inanna around the time of Sargon of Akkad.
-The Northwestern Semitic cognates of Ishtar's name are [[Ashtar]] (masculine) and [[Astarte|Ashtart]] (feminine).
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