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Lesser goddess, merged in conception of Ishtar, 124 APH-RO-DI'TÉ

Date of account: Ancient traditions presented in a work published 1916
Source: Myths & Legends of Babylonia & Assyria
Reference: Myths & Legends of Babylonia & Assyria · selected passage 102
Rights: public_domain
Language: English synthesis of Sumerian, Akkadian, Babylonian and Assyrian material
Translation: Lewis Spence, with cited translations and retellings
Record updated: 2026-08-24

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Lesser goddess, merged in conception of Ishtar, 124 APH-RO-DI'TÉ. Ishtar and cult, of, 124; Ishtar and, connected, 235 APOCRYPHA. Legend of Bel and the Dragon in, 97 APOLLO. Temple to, at Carthage, 330 APOLLODORUS. Statement of, _re_ Ea, 112 _Ap'su_. The deep, or 'house of knowledge,' 72; alternative, Zigarun; mother of Ea, 72, 73, 74; the primeval, 193 AQUARIUS, SIGN OF. The deluge story and, 183 ARABIA. Semites believed to have come from, 15, 16; Naram-Sin penetrates, 17; Semitic religion in, 331 AR-AKH'TU. Nabopolasser and the channel called the, 368 AR-A-LÛ. 1. The underworld, 125; 128-131, 171. 2. Goddess; variant, Eres-ki-gal; Nergal and, 150 AR-BE'LA. Ishtar's shrine in, 212; battle of, 378 ARCHÆOLOGY. Babylonian, 46, 47; Chaldean, 339-366; American interest in Babylonian, 356-366; fashionable about the time of Nabonidus (556-539 B.C.), 363 ARES. Greek god, 315 AR'GO. Ea identified with a star in the constellation, 236 ARK. The Babylonian, 174-178 AR-TA'IOS. Median monarch; Nannar confounded with, 146 ARTEMIS. Reference to, 132 ART-S.

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