Astarte vs Ishtar - What's the difference?
astarte | ishtar |
A Semitic goddess of fertility, sexuality, and war; cognate in name, origin and function with the goddess Ishtar of Mesopotamian texts.
A goddess of fertility, love, sex and war. In the Babylonian pantheon, she was the divine personification of the planet Venus; the Assyrian and Babylonian counterpart to the Sumerian Inanna and to the northwest-Semitic goddess Astarte.