relationship_id,subject_entity_id,relationship_type,object_entity_id,confidence,rationale,source_id,review_status,period_id
461,ENT_MES_INANNA_ISHTAR,patron_of,ENT_LOVE,high,Inanna/Ishtar is a major goddess of love and sexuality.,SRC_BLACK_GREEN_MESO,reviewed,
468,ENT_MES_INANNA_ISHTAR,patron_of,ENT_WAR,high,Inanna/Ishtar is also a major war goddess.,SRC_BLACK_GREEN_MESO,reviewed,
1305,ENT_MES_INANNA_ISHTAR,embodies,ENT_VENUS,high,Inanna/Ishtar is identified with the planet Venus in Mesopotamian astral theology.,SRC_BLACK_GREEN_MESO,reviewed,
1368,ENT_MES_INANNA_ISHTAR,received_as,ENT_CAN_ASTARTE,medium,"Inanna/Ishtar (Mesopotamian love/war goddess) received as Astarte (ʿṯtrt) in Canaanite tradition. Both rule love, fertility, and warfare; name Astarte is cognate with Ashtart/Ishtar. DDD_BIBLE s.v. ""Ashtoreth"" and ""Astarte"" traces the Mesopotamian origin and Canaanite reception of the love-war goddess figure.",SRC_UGARIT_DDD,reviewed,PER_CAN_BRONZE_AGE
1476,ENT_MES_INANNA_ISHTAR,identified_with,ENT_HTT_SHAUSHKA,high,"Hittite religious texts explicitly call Shaushka ""Ishtar of Nineveh"" and ""Ishtar of Samuha,"" demonstrating a direct identification rather than mere structural parallel. The Myth of Shaushka and Hedammu and treaty texts from the Hittite empire routinely use the two names as equivalents. Shaushka is the Hurrian reception of the Mesopotamian love/war goddess complex, transmitting the Inanna/Ishtar tradition into Anatolian religion.",SRC_HOFFNER_HITTITE_MYTHS,reviewed,PER_HTT_EMPIRE
1585,ENT_MES_INANNA_ISHTAR,sibling_of,ENT_MES_ERESHKIGAL,high,"In the Descent of Inanna (ETCSL 1.4.1), Inanna explicitly travels ""toward her sister Ereshkigal, queen of the Great Below."" The sibling relationship between the love goddess and the queen of death is the foundational tension of the narrative: Ereshkigal has power over the underworld that Inanna desires; Inanna is stripped of her divine attributes at each of the seven gates as she descends to face her sister. Their sisterhood makes the confrontation mythologically significant — it is the love of life vs. the finality of death embodied in divine sisters.",SRC_ETCSL,reviewed,PER_MES_EARLY
1596,ENT_MES_INANNA_ISHTAR,received_as,ENT_APHRODITE,medium,"Inanna/Ishtar transmits directly to Aphrodite via the Cypriot channel, alongside the more fully documented Inanna→Astarte→Aphrodite chain already in the dataset. The key shared elements: (1) the ""Queen of Heaven"" title (Inanna is consistently ""Queen of Heaven""; Aphrodite Ourania is ""Heavenly Aphrodite""); (2) the planet Venus as the primary celestial identification (both are the morning/evening star deity); (3) the love-war combination (both are goddesses of erotic love and of war and conflict — an unusual combination that marks the Mesopotamian influence); (4) the Cypriot cult of Aphrodite at Paphos showing direct Eastern religious influence; (5) the Adonis/Tammuz link — Adonis is the Greek reception of Dumuzi, Inanna/Ishtar's divine lover, and the Adonis cult is deeply Cypriot. Burkert (1992) and West (1997) both treat this as a well-grounded direct channel.",SRC_BURKERT_ORIENT_REV,reviewed,PER_GRK_ARCHAIC
7854,ENT_MES_INANNA_ISHTAR,associated_with,ENT_RLMX_IRKALLA,high,Ishtar descends into Irkalla and is detained there in the Descent of Ishtar.,SRC_BLACK_GREEN_MESO,reviewed,