To return to the Decan of Venus.
From Ursa Major Continued Constellation Names - Subject: ISHTAR, Venus.
Although unrelated to the fourth month, this may correlate with the cohorts of Dumuzi.
- Egyptian Uaz or Waz, was considered a vegetation goddess, and pictured as a conventional papyrus.
- See image of Egyptian Papyrus.
- Sumerian Buz, was the vegetation goddess, or "The Lady of the Earth," pictured as a sprout or serpent.
- See image of Sumerian sprout.
Sumerian ESH4.DAR, Akkadian Ishtar (known as Roman Venus, Greek Aphrodite or Hera, goddess of love), earlier as Estar, as her Akkadian name, is related to that of the South Arabian (male) deity 'Ashtar' and to that of the Syrian goddess Astarte (Biblical Ashtoreth, plural Ashtaroth, all female divinities, mother goddess, goddess of the evening star), with whom she was undoubtedly connected. Ishtar was the Babylonian "Queen of Heaven."
- Sumerian èš: shrine.
- Sumerian eš(2,3)-da: ceremony ('shrine' + 'with, near').
- Sumerian eš2,3-dam: tavern; brothel ('shrine' + 'spouse').
- Sumerian èš-èš: a festival (reduplicated 'shrine').
- Sumerian eresh, queen, mistress.
- Sumerian éš-gán: surveyor's rope ('rope' + 'surface measure').
- Sumerian éše, éš: rope; measuring tape/cord (eš, 'much', + eš, 'much').
- Sumerian éš: (cf., éše).
- Sumerian eš5,6,16,21: three.
- Sumerian aš3,4,8: six (ía, 'five', + aš, 'one').
- Sumerian aš: one; unique.
- Sumerian aš(5): spider.
- Sumerian áš: n., wish; curse (abbreviated tàš ?, ašte ? [ašte: need; necessity; desirable or beloved object (á, 'side', + šita4, 'to bind, join').]); v., to desire; to curse.
- Sumerian a-na-aš(-am): why ('what' + 'one' + 'to be').
- Sumerian eš-bar: decision ('much' + 'to divide'; cf., ka-aš-bar).
- Sumerian dar: n., francolin, pheasant. v., to slice, split; to shatter (reduplication class).
- Sumerian dàr: (cf., dàra).
- Sumerian a-dar-túnku6: a fish ('water' + 'to slice' + 'to smash').
- Sumerian á...dar: to confiscate ('wages' + 'to split').
- Sumerian dar-ra: cured, dried (?).
- Sumerian unug, unu6 [TEMEN-ÈŠ]: elevated shrine, temple.
From Orion Constellation Names - Subject: INANNA, Ishtar, Venus.
- Sumerian INANNA - a goddess.
- As seen earlier in Ursa Major and Dumuzi / Ishtar, we find the Sumerian unug, unu6 [TEMEN-ÈŠ]: elevated shrine, temple. In the Early Dynastic-II period (2700-2500 B.C.), from archeological records the city walls were expanded in Uruk (Sumerian unug, or the Biblical Erech) near modern Warka (the same root consonants *'rk with a different vocalization), during this period. Enmerkar (Emmerkar??) king of Uruk, called en 'lord,' was the first to write on clay tablets and Kullub (Caleb?) has as epithet 'he who build Uruk' known from two epics, with no known inscription or archeological proof of his existence. The texts refer to commercial and military contacts with a city called Aratta (not yet localized, probably in Iran), where the Sumerian goddess Inanna (later Akkadian Ištar, Ishtar) and (supreme god An) Dumuzi were also worshipped. Gilgameš (Gilgamesh) is grandson of Enmerkar. The Assyrian version is in the library of Aššurbanipal (around 650 B.C.) dating to 1700 B.C., and Sumerian fragments dated around 2000 B.C. The royal dynasty name, Mesannepada, does date to 2600 B.C.