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Louvre Museum, Paris Babylonian, c. 2000 B.C.
So common in the Mesopotamian area were the clay
figurines of Ishtar / Inanna / Astarte in her characteristic breast-offering
pose, which has come to be known as the Ishtar pose, suggesting
her function
as the Goddess of all nourishment, and fertility.
Addressed as Mother of the Fruitful Breast, Queen of Heaven, Light
of the World, Creator of People, Mother of Deities, and River of Life,
Ishtar is, above all, a lunar Goddess who gives life as the waxing moon
and then withdraws it as the waning moon. The light and dark dimensions
to her power suggest a lunar mythology which revolves around the connection
made between the light and dark lunar phases and rhythmic alteration of
the Earth's fertility.
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