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Ishtar, "The name of the chief goddess worshipped by the Semitic Babylonians, the Assyrians, and apparently also by the Gutians and the Lulubians." (The New International Encyclopaedia, Vol. XII, New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., 1920, 418.)
Morris Jastrow, Jr., Ph. D., Aspects of Religious Belief and Practice in Babylonia and Assyria (New York and London: Knickerbocker Press, 1911) 136. (Ishtar, the Mother-goddess, terra-cotta figurine, now in the Louvre.)
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