(1) Babylonian and Assyrian goddess of love and fertility and war; counterpart to the Phoenician Astarte
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A goddess of fertility, love, and war. In the Babylonian pantheon, she was the divine personification of the planet Venus. Assyrian and Babylonian counterpart to the Sumerian Inanna and to the cognate northwest Semitic goddess Astarte.
