Inanna

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Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A Sumerian goddess of sexual love, fertility, and warfare, known by the Akkadians as Ishtar and later identified with Astarte, Aphrodite, and Venus.

    "As popular with the mythmakers as Enki, or even more so, was his granddaughter Inanna, city goddess or^([sic]) Uruk and one of the most complex figures in the Mesopotamian pantheon."

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Sumerian š’€­š’ˆ¹ (ᵈinana /⁠inanak⁠/).

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