Archive

ISHTAR the goddess- her story

ISHTAR the goddess – her story

September 17, 2020
ISHTAR the goddess- her story
2 Comments

The origin of this Babylonian-Assyrian main goddess was a Semitian vegetation- and Moon goddess with lower influence, but when these tribes arrived at the land of the Sumerian kingdom, her cult reached the Sumerian capital Uruk. The Sumerian people identified Ishtar easily with their own goddess, Inanna. After some time Ishtar became in the second Millenium, the highest and widest worshipped goddess of the Babylonians. The myths of Inanna became the myths of Ishtar:

 

Song of Ishtar – Descent to the Goddess

 

Me the woman he has filled with dismay

Has filled me the queen of heaven

with consternation…

I, the woman who circles the land-

Tell me where is my house,

Tell me where is the city in which I may live…

I, who am your daughter…The heirodule,

who am your bridesmaid

Tell me where is my house…The bird has its nesting place

But I – my young are dispersed

The fish lies in calm waters,

but I – my resting place exists not,

The dog kneels at the threshold, But I – I have no threshold…

– Ancient Anon.

************************************

The Greek name for dove, peristera, almost certainly derives from the Semitic perah Ishtar (bird of Ishtar). It is likely that Aphrodite originated in ancient Cyprus and  is a derivation of the Phoenician name Ashteroth (Hellenised as Astarte).

Innana, Ishtar and Astarte, the ancestors of Aphrodite, were the celestial beings originally associated with the planet Venus.  Ancient communities believed that their goddess returned to Venus at night and that is why the star shone so brightly in the night sky.

Ancient Semitic goddess Ishtar, was honoured with the Ishtar Gate at Babylon,  engraved with the title ‘she who vanquishes all’.

Eventually statues of Ishtar, Mesopotamian goddess, along with other pagan goddesses, would be taken from her grottos and replaced with statues of the Virgin Mary. The ramifications for women would be nothing less than catastrophic.

**See post HERE:  Catholic Dichotomy of the Female**

*******************************************

Search around the internet enough and you will find some “heretical” videos by archaeologists, working in Israel. These are fascinating. They have found absolute proof that the Hebrews did not worship one YHWH, but a husband and wife team. Monotheists went through the scriptures to erase her presence, but they didn’t catch all the verses. In the Holy Bible today there are still forgotten references to “the wife of YHWH.” Even in the time of Yeshua (Jesus) they have found shrines to the Hebrew equivalent of Ishtar in Jewish homes – typically in the kitchen. While the men went to the synagogue, the women prayed to the female mirror image of YHWH in their homes. Constantine wanted one religion to unite the empire, so merged the practices of worshiping Solus Invictus, Isis, Ishtar, etc. into an imperial version of Christianity. Ishtar became Mary. The Christian day of worship was moved to Sunday – the day of worshiping the sun god, etc. Bishops and cardinals began wearing the garbs of Isis priests. Now you know why there was a Protestant Reformation. – Richard Thornton; LinkedIn.

***********************

 
I love reading your stories about ancient goddesses, Luciana Cavallaro, AMAZON ; they espouse the best and worst attributes in human females. But then in ancient myth, as now, females had to compete with all-powerful males, and maybe it was this that brought out the avenging spirit of various ancient goddesses. 
 
Hi Anne,

Thank you! I do enjoy the research on the goddesses and have learned interesting information. It seems the more we try for equality the more resistance we have. It also reflects the male ego and not wanting to be seen as weak. Some things never change.

******************************

For more information about my book, HERE is the link: ‘Whatever Happened To Ishtar? A Passionate Quest To Find Answers For Generations Of Defeated Mothers’ 

 

 

Catholic Dichotomy of Females & Abuse of Children

September 16, 2010
Catholicism & Paedophilia, ISHTAR the goddess- her story
Leave a comment

Guido Cagnacci: Allegory of Human Life (1601-1663)

*Updated 6 March 2019*

The Italian painter Guido Cagnacci encompasses it all in his beautiful painting which depicts the “cyclical regeneration of life out of death”.  He knew the realities of life and death.  His nude woman was the personification of beauty and fecundity, fundamental to the eternal  cycle of life and  the antithesis  of patriarchal  Catholicism. The Church created the dichotomy of the female; the virginal mother vs the whore.  Easy to commit ‘sins’ against the worthless latter and be forgiven in the confessional.  Within the flawed doctrine of Catholicism this is implicit.

><><><><><>><

See posts: Are We But  a Flock of  Sheep? & Saint?  Pope?

& Australian Royal Commision into The Institutional Sexual Abuse of Children

***********************************************

The power brokers behind the Vatican machine are very astute.  Every so often they target some obscure person for beatification; the penultimate  stage before sainthood.  They don’t have to pay millions of dollars for publicity and enhancement of Catholicism because it is all free once this ‘news’ is released to the Global Media.  But the global congregation is growing weary of the sheer numbers of abused children.  The Dead Sea Scrolls have revealed that so much of Christianity is based on fantasy. The canonisation  into sainthood scams regarding the 19th Century cardinal John Henry Newman and Sister Mary MacKillop are nothing but pathetic attempts at diversion from the sexual abuse of thousands of children by Catholic clergy around the world and especially recent revelations in Belgium, Ireland and Australia.  This has been going on for centuries but in the past the Church always covered it up.  Priests’ sexual gratification and its secrecy was paramount;  children’s welfare wasn’t an issue.  The Church just ignored the abuse and shifted the offending priests around the parishes where they carried on with their proclivities.   Perhaps The Church’s fantastical teachings made it easy for priests to delude themselves into believing that they weren’t really having sex with their child victims.  It was ‘fallen’ women, those evil temptresses, that they had to avoid.  I cannot believe that this vast Catholic scourge can simply be labelled ‘paedophilia’.  It is much more psychologically complicated than that. Catholic seminaries are not suitable ‘educational’ and religious institutions for teenage boys and young men, where only males of all ages reside in monk-like living conditions, and where apparently acts of ‘homosexuality’ are rife.

**********************************************************************************

Sexually abused children suffer and grow into adults who continue to suffer for the rest of their lives, that is if they haven’t committed suicide; and by the way, suicide is another sin in the eyes of the Church so the victims are condemned to “go to hell” as if they haven’t already been there. In some cases priests refuse to bury them!   Little Boys are as fair game as little girls; in the latest investigations into the Belgium abuse cases involving Catholic clergy,  girls and boys from two years of age were repeatedly raped.  Celibacy is a joke and the Vatican’s continued stance on celibacy, that Jesus (if he existed at all) was celibate,  is rubbish; it is written that he married twice and fathered children.  His second wife was called Lydia, but Mary Magdalene, his first wife, was always labelled by The Church as a prostitute and Mary, mother of Jesus, was promoted to the pedestal of sainthood and mother of God because, The Church’s doctrine would have us believe,   hers  was an Immaculate Conception.  Some parts of Catholicism were taken from paganism so they had to have a replacement for the ancient  mother goddess such as the Babylonian Ishtar.  In the grottos around the Middle East whatever figurine of a goddess was in residence,  was removed and replaced with a statue of the Virgin Mary.

In Australia in 2013, the Royal Commission Into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, began. One of the most disturbing conclusions to come out of the hearings, was that the Catholic Church hierarchy, in Australia,  believed the sexual abuse of prepubescent children was paedophilia, but that the sexual abuse of adolescent boys was homosexuality, which was a sin, and that priests could be forgiven after prayers and penance. Even allowing for this very Catholic distinction, no action was taken against offending clergy between 1950 and up to the time of the Royal Commission. In fact, the Royal Commission exposed gross failings by Catholic priests, bishops and archbishops to place the welfare and safety of children before the protection of its paedophile clergy.

*******************************************************

**See my memoir HERE: Whatever Happened to Ishtar? – A Passionate Quest To Find Answers For Generations Of Defeated Mothers.**

*******************************************************

Previous Post: Scandal in the ADF

********************************************************

7 News Item: Pregnant Nun Image Sparks Outrage:

pregnant nun

Pregnant nun advertisement sparks outrage!

An ice cream advertisement featuring a pregnant nun has been banned in the UK, media reports say. The Italian ice cream brand Antonio Federici launched the magazine campaign with the attached tagline text: “Immaculately conceived … Ice cream is our religion.” According to the British Advertising Standards Authority it reportedly received 10 (is that all?) complaints from magazine readers who said the ad was offensive to Christians, especially those who practice Catholicism. “We concluded that to use such an image in a light hearted way to advertise ice-cream was likely to cause serious offence to readers, particularly those who practised the Roman Catholic faith.” an official statement from the ASA says. A UK advertising watchdog says the imagery used to illustrate Immaculate Conception was likely to be seen as mocking Catholic beliefs. The Italian company said the ad, featuring in The Lady and Grazia magazines, aimed to gently satirise religion and that the notion of conception represented the creation of their ice cream product. Where’s the outrage about predatory priests? one person asks in the comments section of the news item.