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Hymn to Ishtar

2007-11-28T15:28:00Z

Hymn to Ishtar
Praise the goddess, the most awesome of goddesses.
Let one revere the mistress of the peoples, the greatest of the Igigi.
Praise Ishtar, the most awesome of goddesses.
Let one revere the queen of women, the greatest of the Igigi.

She is clothed with pleasure and love.
She is laden with vitality, charm, and voluptuousness.
Ishtar is clothed with pleasure and love.
She is laden with vitality, charm, and voluptuousness.

In lips she is sweet; life is in her mouth.
At her appearance rejoicing becomes full.
She is glorious; veils are thrown over her head.
Her figure is beautiful; her eyes are brilliant.

The goddess - with her there is counsel.
The fate of everything she holds in her hand.
At her glance there is created joy,
Power, magnificence, the protecting deity and guardian spirit.

She dwells in, she pays heed to compassion and friendliness.
Besides, agreeableness she truly possesses.
Be it slave, unattached girl, or mother, she preserves her.
One calls on her; among women one names her name.

Who - to here greatness who can be equal?
Strong, exalted, splendid are her decrees.
Ishtar - to her greatness who can be equal?
Strong, exalted, splendid are her decrees.

She is sought after among the gods; extraordinary is her station.
Respected is her word; it is supreme over them.
Ishtar among the gods, extraordinary is her station.
Respected is her word; it is supreme over them.

She is their queen; they continually cause her commands to be executed.
All of them bow down before her.
They receive her light before her.
Women and men indeed revere her.

In their assembly her word is powerful; it is dominating.
Before Anum their king she fully supports them.
She rests in intelligence, cleverness, and wisdom.
They take counsel together, she and her lord.

Indeed they occupy the throne room together.
In the divine chamber, the dwelling of joy,
Before them the gods take their places.
To their utterances their attention is turned.

~James B. Prichard, Ancient Near Eastern Texts
(Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press) 1969 p 383

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Magic Belts

2007-11-23T11:00:10Z

I was reading in a book about spells, there history etc, about magic belts.
Used not only for fetility, love & childbirth but also for warrior women guarding their loins.
The fertility ones mainly seemed to involve shells like cowrie shells...also the shed skin of snakes..shed being operative word her, rather than `taken`...the snake has to be coaxed to hand over its magic rather than skinned.
Also a red silk thread or a braid of sacred divine colurs ie black/white/red....them being 9 feet long...used a a circumferance ruler for witches coven circles.

Can anybody else think of good things to attach to belts of any of the kind mentioned or others if they are out there?

Spells to wear are so good & already we have handbag charms..keyring charms etc...it sounds so good to have a ring of spells circling ones own waist, either in view or hidden.
Any suggestions or other types anyone can think of?

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Seattle Ritualist looking

2007-05-29T18:44:45Z

I was wondering if there is anyone here, who lives in Seattle or near Seattle, interested in starting a near east ritual group?

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Newbie Sacred Whore

2006-10-22T15:38:45Z

Hi all. I am a prof Dominatrix & Sacred Whore with 30 years exp. Also writer & artist for the empowerment of sexworkers internationally. As well as moderator for prostitute Warriors. Good to be here!

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the lines one can draw within the orbit of venus

2006-10-22T04:37:05Z

anybody got anything about how you can draw a perfect 5-pointed star in\side the orbit of venus? I saw something about it once which was pretty fascinating. Ron in Rochester, ny

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Ishtar and Asteroids

2005-01-15T19:25:54Z

Two articles, two issues. The first, an asteroid that (unlikely) may hit the earth on the first day of spring, the Feast of Ishtar, 2014. The second, a space program called "Ishtar" (Internal Structure High-resolution Tomography by Asteroid Rendezvous)that is intended to deter NEO (near earth objects) from colliding with the earth.

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http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/09/02/1062403508365.html?oneclick=true

Asteroid heads for Earth
September 2, 2003

Scientists were today warning of a possible asteroid collision with the Earth.

An asteroid around 1.2 km wide could hit the earth on March 21, 2014 and has been classified as "an event meriting careful monitoring" by astronomers.

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http://spaceguard.esrin.esa.int/tumblingstone/issues/num15/eng/ishtar.htm

The ISHTAR project

by P. D'Arrigo - Copyright Tumbling Stone 2002

ISHTAR (Internal Structure High-resolution Tomography by Asteroid Rendezvous) is a proposed mission to image the interior of an asteroid using a powerful new technology: Radar Tomography (that is, the imaging of the interior of a solid object using ground-penetrating radar). The ISHTAR mission design is centred around this Radar Tomography payload, capable to probe the interior of a small asteroid to depths of 100-200m, combined with an imager for surface characterization and a radio science experiment to measure the asteroid mass.

An artistic impression of ISHTAR mission (copyright Astrium) This unique combination will allow the first detailed characterization of a NEO (near earth objects) and will give valuable insights into the origin and evolution processes that govern the NEO population. In particular, ISHTAR will address key issues related to the threat NEOs pose to Earth:
It will help assess the impact hazard, by providing the first data on the internal structure of stony NEOs, helping to predict the likelihood of NEO fragmentation on entering the atmosphere and to solve the debate between ‘rubble pile’ and ‘solid rock’ models of NEOs.
It will give us knowledge of the fractures and voids inside the NEO and will provide the basis for devising mitigation techniques, by helping to discriminate between destructive and deflective strategies.
It will greatly advance our understanding of the origin and evolution of NEOs, by giving us vital clues about the formation of stony NEOs and their parent bodies, the age and the collisional history of NEOs.

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US forces in Iraq destroying Ishtar Gates

2005-01-15T19:10:45Z

Grrr.....

(01-15) 08:05 PST LONDON (AP) --

U.S.-led troops using the ancient Iraqi city of Babylon as a base have damaged and contaminated artifacts dating back thousands of years in one of the world's most important archaeological sites, the British Museum said Saturday.

For example, military vehicles crushed a 2,600-year-old brick pavement, and archaeological fragments, including broken bricks stamped by King Nebuchadnezzar II around the same time, were scattered across the site, a museum report said.

The dragons at the Ishtar Gate were marred by cracks and gaps where someone tried to remove their decorative bricks, the paper said.

John Curtis, keeper of the British Museum's Near East department, who was invited by the Iraqis to study the site, also found that large quantities of sand mixed with archaeological fragments have been taken from the site to fill military sandbags.

"This is tantamount to establishing a military camp around the Great Pyramid in Egypt or around Stonehenge in Britain," Curtis said in the report.

In an interview Saturday with Associated Press Television News, Iraq's Minister of Culture Mufeed al-Jazairee said coalition troops in Babylon had used "armored vehicles and helicopters that land and take off freely. In addition to that, the forces also set up other facilities and changes."

He added: "I expect that the archaeological city of Babylon has sustained damage but I don't know exactly the size of such damage."

The remains of Babylon have been occupied since the early days of the invasion by U.S. Marines and, more recently, by soldiers from Poland and other countries. Babylon is 50 miles south of Baghdad.

A Polish military spokesman in Iraq said troops were cooperating with Iraqi authorities in efforts to protect the site.

"I have asked our archaeologists to prepare a specific answer to the accusations, but I have to give them some time," Lt. Col. Artur Domanski said.

The city's main sites -- the Ishtar Gate, the ruins of Babylon and the Nebuchadnezzar Palace -- are in a separate area on the camp's perimeter, run by Iraqi officials as an archaeological park to paying visitors.

The U.S. military says all earth moving has been halted and it is considering moving troops away to protect the ruins.

Lt. Col. Steven Boylan, a U.S. military spokesman in Baghdad, said all engineering works were discussed with the head of the Babylon museum.

"An archaeologist examined every construction initiative for its impact on historical ruins," he said.

In the report, Curtis acknowledged that at first the U.S. presence had helped to protect the site from looters.

But subsequent work -- including the decision to cover large areas of the site with gravel brought in from elsewhere to provide car parks and helipads -- was damaging, he said.

Lord Redesdale, an archaeologist who heads a parliamentary archaeology committee, described the report's findings as "just dreadful."

"Not only is what the American forces are doing damaging the archaeology of Iraq, it's actually damaging the cultural heritage of the whole world," he said.

For more than 1,000 years, Babylon was one of the world's premier cities, where King Nebuchadnezzar II built the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, one of the Seven Wonders of the World.

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would you do an ishtarishtu?

2004-12-17T13:54:22Z

http://inanna.virtualave.net/ishtar.html

Lots of good info on this site about the ancient goddess including the ishtarishtu (sacred priestess/prostitutes) mentioned in the Torah.

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Cool orbit facts

2004-10-29T20:10:58Z

Venus makes a pentagram pattern in eight years. I posted a diagram in the photos section... In eight years the eclipse will happen again, completing a full (okay, minus two degrees) pentagram.

http://www.vt-2004.org/Education/edu1app5.html

If you have a good diagram, feel free to post it as well.

The fivepointed star was a sacred symbol in Sumeria and pre-Columbian America, although in the latter with rounded points, and may have been a symbol of Venus based on its orbit. I think the Mayan culture had succeeded in discovering the pentagram shaped orbit. They certainly had advanced knowledge of the timing of the appearances of the Morning star and the Evening star, that is, the orbit of the planet Venus.

In any event, the symbol for Ishtar/Venus has almost always been an eight pointed star. Don't know what to make of that.

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Mark Morford/October Surprise

2004-09-23T23:04:22Z

Mark Morford, SFGate
Nothing beats a flaming apocalyptic theory like a conspiracy theory...

This is how it starts. Everyone from paranoid Rapture-ready right-wing conservatives to mysterious Australian astronomers to weird alarmist economists all suddenly realize their various yelps and screams and chat-room rants are running parallel and that they're all ringing the same bell.

And all their stories merge into some sort of dazzling interconnected web, an impressive and slightly disturbing jamboree of destruction and mayhem and global economic collapse that, if all goes as predicted, will all come down within the next few weeks.

There is this underground doozy making the e-rounds right now, crazed and random and already being tossed about and bunked and debunked and rebunked like a conspiratorial salad as I write this.

It involves all the best ingredients listed above, along with plenty of genuine obtuse jargon and sparkling gems of actual truth (the hallmarks of any really good conspiracy theory), just enough to make everything resonate with possibility and imminence and wicked gobs of creepiness.

And you have to ask: It is in any way odd or suspicious or bizarre that all the following events are happening at the same time? Is there a common thread? And is that thread barbed and nasty and does it involve doom and destruction and scary lizard people running around eating human babies and speaking in funny clicking noises? You be the judge.

The synopsis: The Fed is suddenly acting very strangely, cranking up the nation's Money Supply (M-3) by "crisis proportions." A massive chunk of the U.S. Navy carrier fleet is suddenly deployed in a huge, never-before-attempted global maneuver, coordinated with the fleets of a dozen other major countries. Threats of some sort of massive terrorist attack loom like alarmist storm clouds. Unprecedented numbers of meteors and comet sightings splatter all over the globe.

The CIA director suddenly quits. Venus is hurling across the sun for the first time in 122 years. The light of the planet is dimming, 10 percent less sunlight all around since the 1950s. London is preparing for a mass evacuation. Many U.S. military bases abroad that were falling into disuse have been "frantically refurbished and restocked" over the last 18 months in preparation for ... something big.

And you know what? According to various legit news stories and various semi-legit Web sites and a few perfectly unreliable chat-room postings, this is all true. Mostly...

View the whole article at:
http://sfgate.com/columnists/morford/

And then vote for what you think will happen right before the election at:
http://www.octobersurprise.net

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Burningman

2004-08-19T16:45:32Z

Who here is going this year? What plans do you have if you are, or aren't? I'm out roaming the mountains of Arizona and New Mexico, mostly off the grid so not too many posts.

This is worth checking out, on or off the playa:
http://www.gaianxaos.com/GalacticMayanFinalMission.htm

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fun that keeps you sharp

2004-06-24T03:12:37Z

"recreational mathmatics"

http://mathworld.wolfram.com/topics/RecreationalMathematics.html

Can anyone guess what this has to do with anything Ishtar/Venus?

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comments from 1874

2004-06-11T21:58:56Z

The Transit of Venus

WITHIN a few weeks, will occur an event universally regarded as one of the most important and
interesting which can happen in the whole range of astronomical phenomena. It is the passage of
the planet Venus across the disk of the sun on the 8th of December, 1874. The last occasion of this
kind was on June 3, 1769. It was then considered so important that all the leading civilized nations sent out
expeditions to observe it. It was one of these which was conducted by Captain Cook to the Island of Otaheite
in the Southern Pacific Ocean, when observations were made at a point called to this day, Venus Point.
David Murray - The Transit of Venus, 1874 -

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Statue of Liberty--conspiracy theories

2004-06-10T19:42:25Z

What do you think? Is the statue of liberty a pagan or Masonic symbol? Personally, I like to think it represents an ancient goddess of liberty, maybe Ishtar, and wanted to find a good site to post but all I came up with were these fanatical ones:

http://www.prisonplanet.com/analysis_louise_130503_lady.html
http://www.freemasonrywatch.org/statue_of_liberty.html
http://www.godlikeproductions.com/bbs/aitem.php?message=289363&show=0404

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Venus Dreams

2004-06-10T18:44:17Z

Is anyone else having especially vivid dreams this week?

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Venus Multiverse

2004-06-09T18:23:42Z

According to Max Tegmark, in his article in the May 2003 Scientific American, the simplest and most popular cosmological model today predicts that you have a twin in a galaxy about 10 to the 1028 meters from here. Or on Venus, maybe.

http://www.sciam.com/

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Transit Photos

2004-06-09T17:51:08Z

http://www.vt-2004.org/

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