#you're literally taking an Assyria n Babylonian goddess with the thought
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chaotictaste · 2 years ago
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also if you think about it that (false) explanation only works in English... it has different names in other languages like Pasen (in Dutch) and Wielkanoc (in Polish; lit. tran. Grand/Great Night)
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It’s that time of year again. Courtesy of digitalhammurabi.com
Addition about the image, courtesy of Twitter user @lui_log: wrt the background image, which is a stone plaque showing a winged goddess flanked by owls: “Also, we don't know whether this is a depiction of Ishtar, as the piece has been looted, thus has no archaeological context that could point us to whom it shows. Nor does it bear an inscription. The owls could mean that it is Ishtar's sister Ereshkigal, Goddess of the Underworld.”
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