Deploy your own robots to fight for you or steal them from your enemy. Rip through your enemies with lasers, electrocute them or fry them with microwaves. It's time to take it back! One node at a time. Empire of Machine is the new world order. In the great robot uprising machines took the planet over. The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica This article was most recently revised and updated by Adam Augustyn.The humanity had fallen. In later myth she was known as Queen of the Universe, taking on the powers of An, Enlil, and Enki. Her popularity was universal in the ancient Middle East, and in many centres of worship she probably subsumed numerous local goddesses. Part of her cult worship probably included temple prostitution. As goddess of Venus, delighting in bodily love, Ishtar was the protectress of prostitutes and the patroness of the alehouse. In this manifestation her symbol is a star with 6, 8, or 16 rays within a circle. With Shamash, the sun god, and Sin, the moon god, she forms a secondary astral triad. The Akkadian Ishtar is also, to a greater extent, an astral deity, associated with the planet Venus. Ishtar’s primary legacy from the Sumerian tradition is the role of fertility figure she evolved, however, into a more complex character, surrounded in myth by death and disaster, a goddess of contradictory connotations and forces-fire and fire-quenching, rejoicing and tears, fair play and enmity. She is sometimes referred to as the Lady of the Date Clusters. Inanna was also a fertility figure, and, as goddess of the storehouse and the bride of the god Dumuzi-Amaushumgalana, who represented the growth and fecundity of the date palm, she was characterized as young, beautiful, and impulsive-never as helpmate or mother. The power attributed to her in war may have arisen from her connection with storms. She was also the goddess of rain and thunderstorms-leading to her association with An, the sky god-and was often pictured with the lion, whose roar resembled thunder. In her earliest manifestations she was associated with the storehouse and thus personified as the goddess of dates, wool, meat, and grain the storehouse gates were her emblem. In the figure of Inanna several traditions seem to have been combined: she is sometimes the daughter of the sky god An, sometimes his wife in other myths she is the daughter of Nanna, god of the moon, or of the wind god, Enlil. Inanna, an important goddess in the Sumerian pantheon, came to be identified with Ishtar, but it is uncertain whether Inanna is also of Semitic origin or whether, as is more likely, her similarity to Ishtar caused the two to be identified. Ishtar is the Akkadian counterpart of the West Semitic goddess Astarte. Ishtar, (Akkadian), Sumerian Inanna, in Mesopotamian religion, goddess of war and sexual love. SpaceNext50 Britannica presents SpaceNext50, From the race to the Moon to space stewardship, we explore a wide range of subjects that feed our curiosity about space!.Learn about the major environmental problems facing our planet and what can be done about them! Saving Earth Britannica Presents Earth’s To-Do List for the 21st Century.Britannica Beyond We’ve created a new place where questions are at the center of learning.100 Women Britannica celebrates the centennial of the Nineteenth Amendment, highlighting suffragists and history-making politicians.COVID-19 Portal While this global health crisis continues to evolve, it can be useful to look to past pandemics to better understand how to respond today.Student Portal Britannica is the ultimate student resource for key school subjects like history, government, literature, and more.Demystified Videos In Demystified, Britannica has all the answers to your burning questions.This Time in History In these videos, find out what happened this month (or any month!) in history.#WTFact Videos In #WTFact Britannica shares some of the most bizarre facts we can find.Britannica Classics Check out these retro videos from Encyclopedia Britannica’s archives. ![]() Britannica Explains In these videos, Britannica explains a variety of topics and answers frequently asked questions.
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