A Shrine to the Sisterhood's Patron Goddess |
ISHTAR........  "I am the radiant splendor of the starry night shining like jewels in the ever changing sky..." |
ISHTAR...  He has sprouted; he has burgeoned; He is lettuce planted by the water. He is the one my womb loves best. My well-stocked garden of the plain, My barley growing high in its furrow, My apple tree which bears fruit up to its crown, He is lettuce planted by the water. My honey-man, my honey-man sweetens me always. My lord, the honey-man of the gods, He is the one my womb loves best. His hand is honey, his foot is honey, He sweetens me always. My eager impetuous caresser of the navel, My caresser of the soft thighs, He is the one my womb loves best He is lettuce planted by the water. |
ISHTAR...  She was addressed as Mother of the Fruitful Breast, Queen of Heaven, Light of the World, |
ISHTAR...  Creator of People, Mother of Deities, and River of Life. |
ISHTAR...  Ishtar is a complex and multidimensional deity, a very ancient Goddess. As goddess of both Love & War, She represents a reconciliation of opposites including male and female. The cult of Ishtar was massive, and spread from the Middle East to the Mediterranean and India. Ishtar incorporated many lesser aspects of the Goddess from a variety of regions. When Ishtar descends into the Underworld to find her son-lover, fertility dies on the Earth. When she returns life is reinstated. To find her lover Ishtar has to shamanically descend to the Underworld. Here she has to enter seven gates. To do this she bribes the gatekeeper with seven veils, or in some versions seven items of her clothes and jewellery. The human body has seven centres of consciousness (chakras). Perhaps the myth of Ishtar has something to do with the recognition of the need to look or to ’go in’ at all the energetic aspects of us to experience our true fertile self. In the descent into the Underworld Ishtar meets her sister, Queen Ershekigal. Ishtar is the light her sister the dark moon. The dieing/resurrected God belongs to both Ishtar and Allatu as they agree he must spend half the year with each of them. Ishtar is often shown as an angel; although she is compassionate if crossed she is extremely wrathful. Ishtar is frequently depicted with passionate eyes that burn full of energy. (FROM - http://www.ishtar.tv/boudoir) |
ISHTAR...  In her terrifying aspect, Ishtar descends like a storm, riding a lion and bearing weapons of war. She is surrounded by her sacred emblems: the star, light of the land, the scepter of power, the calendar moon, the eye of providence, the serpent of divine wisdom, and the magical tree of life. |
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