• Chicken's feet ? like Baba Yaga's house

Ishtar

Also known as Astaroth-the Queen of the Night.With goddesses like her around you wonder why the Ancient Israelites worshipped golden calves! Old Babylonian -about 1700 BC
Again- from the British Museum
www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk/compass/ixbin/goto?id=OBJ12540

Comments and faves

  1. ★

    bootsartemis, magic fly paula, burks_berlin [AGAINST FLICKR-CENSORSHIP], Charissa May Borroff, and 66 other people added this photo to their favorites.

  2. bootsartemis (87 months ago | reply)

    This is wonderful!

  3. magic fly paula (87 months ago | reply)

    Extraordinary...

  4. Charissa May Borroff (87 months ago | reply)

    Thanks for sharing this. It's facinating.

  5. jeffinmoscow (87 months ago | reply)

    Enchanting. Love this series-- you are an able guide to the treasures of the British Museum.

  6. seriykotik1970 (87 months ago | reply)

    Thanks very much! Looking at these beautiful objects from Ancient Iraq I am struck by the human and cultural tragedy of that land now. But also by the wonderful continuity of myth.The owls- birds of the night became symbols of Athena and wisdom in the Greek mythology of a thousand years later. And the sound of a screech owl at night can still send a shiver down the spine.

  7. AngelikaRaven (82 months ago | reply)

    bless.. good old ishtar!! lovley pic..

  8. ketutar (82 months ago | reply)

    Not chicken feet - owl feet.

  9. Marco Brown-Maltese Artist (80 months ago | reply)

    Fantastic!!!Ishtar is my favourite goddess and its great to see your shot of her here!Thank you!

    jeledtov.blogspot.com/

    My homepage : www.marcoart.co.uk

  10. lamusediffuse (71 months ago | reply)

    Thank you for sharing this photo at Museum of Iraq 2.0

  11. gipas76 (65 months ago | reply)

    Hi, I'm an admin for a group called civiltà sepolte, and we'd love to have your photo added to the group.

  12. sanchezdot (62 months ago | reply)

    101/100 ;D

  13. r8r (58 months ago | reply)

    Nice moody photo of this ancient treasure!

  14. Markisy_Brasil (52 months ago | reply)

    Nice!!!

  15. Panos_ [deleted] (51 months ago | reply)

    Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Lands of Alexander, and we'd love to have this added to the group!

  16. mikescottnz-away for a momth (45 months ago | reply)

    Prayer of Lamentation to Ishtar ,

    or Inanna.

    jewishchristianlit.com//Resources/Ane/lamIsht r.html

  17. lavapiés (44 months ago | reply)

    Hello,
    I am researching royalty free and public domain images for use in a documentary film on Gilgamesh.
    Would you allow us to use this image of Ishtar?
    Do you own all the rights to the image?
    You can reach me via email at:
    patricia . benabe ( AT ) gmail

  18. Datura ( Martina Lo Conte ) (39 months ago | reply)

    thank you, this image is very important for my research. The XV taroth is the same image of this goddess. So the origin of 'The Devil' is Ishtar, I suppose!

    regards.

  19. seriykotik1970 (39 months ago | reply)

    Hello Datura-
    thanks for your visit.
    The Devil in the Tarot pack looks like this:
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Devil_(Tarot_card)

  20. Datura ( Martina Lo Conte ) (39 months ago | reply)

    My reference was to the ones from Marsiglia:

    www.manteia-online.dk/deckreviews/dr012.htm

    look at the devil's feet for example...

  21. Eddi van W. (36 months ago | reply)

    Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Creative Commons- Free Pictures, and we'd love to have this added to the group!
    --
    Seen on your photo stream. ( ?² )

  22. itCHINg-sWELLing-bURniNG-BRaiN! (36 months ago | reply)

    she's a babe!

keyboard shortcuts: ← previous photo → next photo L view in light box F favorite < scroll film strip left > scroll film strip right ? show all shortcuts