The Aeon VENUS arises from the ocean flecked with primal foamlike a boiling star she rises in screaming fury and loving laughterbrightest star, veiled with the patterns of eternal sacred geometryoutstanding her face blazes like a new sunlightning pours from her tongue and boils clouds of dew in the airclear vision her eyes are rainbowsfrom her heart flocks of birds fly to new skiesand from her crown arrows terminate erroneous formsher feet stamp upon the coiling bones of false promisesNeith sets herself upon the vault of the skyand mortals wax and wane to her journeys in the land of the celestial dominionsand meets her consort, the Red God, to discipline and free each otherkingdoms and mountains melt at her passingand deserts wax with new life and in time burn to ashall earthly power is vanity to the holy fire of ISHTARtrying to penetrate a mystery, earthly alchemists measure the patterns of her hemsearthly daughters take inspiration from her magic and woo the plants and animalsbut nobody has ever understood NEITH, nobody has ever lifted her Veil.
Once upon a time the official facebook page of Richard Dawkins’ foundation posted a graphic according to which the holiday of Easter is just a rebranded celebration of the Mesopotamian mythology superstar Ishtar, arguing that the evidence is contained in its very name. As everyone knows, Dawkins is an online talking head notable for discussing his non-belief in such an euphoric way that it might turn off even the most staunch secularists and for appearing in some reasonably funny memes about half a decade ago. Bizarrely enough, however, the same claim can be often found among the crowds dedicated to crystal healing, Robert Graves’ mythology fanfiction, indigo children and similar dubiously esoteric content. What’s yet more surprising is that once in a while it shows up among a certain subset of fundamentalist Christians, chiefly the types who believe giants are real (and, of course, satanic), the world is ruled by a secret group of Moloch worshipers and fossils were planted by the devil to led the sheeple astray from the truth about earth being 6000 years old, tops. Of course, to anyone even just vaguely familiar with Christianity whose primary language isn’t English this claim rightfully seems completely baffling – after all it’s evident in most languages that the name of the holiday celebrating Jesus’ resurrection, and many associated customs, are derived from the earlier Jewish Pascha (Passover) which has nothing to do with Ishtar other than having its origin in the Middle East. Why would the purported association only be evident in English and not in Aramaic, Greek, Latin, Spanish, virtually any language other than English and its close relatives – languages which generally didn’t have anything to do with Mesopotamia or early christianity?
Read on to find out what sort of sources let this eclectic selection of characters arrive to the same baffling conclusion, why are they hilariously wrong, and – most importantly – where you can actually find a variety of Ishtars (or at least reasonably Ishtar-like figures) under different names instead.
Flower of Ishtar . Illustration of ISHTAR boardgame. Game designed by @brunodesmontagnes & edited by @iello_fr @iello_usa . . #boardgames #flower #ishtar #artwork #illustration #iello #biboun https://www.instagram.com/p/CIGKpXojTiU/?igshid=c8yccgoky7a8
