The Ishtar Gate Was The 7 Wonders Of The Ancient World

Throughout ancient Greco-Roman history, the Olympian Gods had very different roles in mythology. Athena and Artemis were two of the twelve gods who ruled Olympus. The goddesses portrayed many different religious aspects of this culture and played a large role in mythology. Both goddesses were believed to be virgin goddesses but still represent the ideas of growing into a woman, childbearing, and matronly duties. Throughout this paper the reader will find examples of similarities and differences between two virgin goddesses and how they represented the cultures of women, purity, and womanly duties.

Another spectacular structure in Babylon is the Ishtar Gate. The Ishtar gate is the eighth and final entrance to the city of Babylon, but it is the main way to enter the city on special occasions. The Ishtar Gate was constructed by the means of Nebuchadnezzar around 575 BC. He built this to make his city beautiful and full of life along with the Hanging Gardens of Babylon. The Ishtar Gate was originally one of the Seven Wonders of the World like the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, but was removed and replaced with something suppodsly better than this beautiful gate and the walls that surround it. Ishtar was named after the goddess that was worshiped by the means of the people who are located in Babylon. Ishtar was the goddess of love, war, fertility, and sex.

Occasionally, you tend to find woman like Shamhat. Shamhat was a harlot who role was to attract men “Enkidu” from their wrong doings or out of the normal doings. This is somewhat the ideal role that we find in relationships with woman and man. Normally when a trouble male is going about the wrong actions a female such as Shamhat would help lead them and make them aware of their wrongfulness. Later in the tablets you find woman who are manipulative and spoil brats. Ishtar is the god of love, fertility and war. In The Epic of Gilgamesh Ishtar wanted to marry Gilgamesh, but she did not meet his standards. So therefore, in

Often considered to be one of the most well known goddesses of Sumerian myth, Inanna can also be considered one of the most complex. In order to analyse whether or not she can be considered a mother goddess, the concept itself must first be defined. While term ‘mother goddess’ does not necessarily apply to the religions of the last few centuries, agriculturally based civilizations of the ancient world. Maintenance of fertility was of prime importance, and they were often associated with the earth. They incorporated characteristics of human motherhood but on a divine scale, becoming ‘Great Mothers’, who had power over the production and fertility of the land and was responsibly for the fecundity and protection of the people. Inanna appears consistently in in art and myth throughout the Sumerian world. Throughout this essay, the characteristics demonstrated within these sources will be compared to the goddess Isis, who in both Egyptian and Greco-Roman religion was associated with divine motherhood. These deities are not one dimensional, and neither is the concept of the ‘mother goddess’. Both Isis and Inanna can be considered to fall on the pole of that of the Terrible Mother . Inanna more so than Isis occupies both a

The theme I have chosen is the Quest for immortality/ creation of legacy. Ancient Egyptians believed that there was a life after death; they focused much of their life preparing for the afterlife. The afterlife did not come easy to them, as they felt like they needed to live the best life possible otherwise they would not be accepted into the afterlife.

Isis was the most beloved goddess in ancient Egypt, whose popularity spread to the Greco-Roman world, and then was Mourner. Could be Isis mourning Osirissuppressed by Christianity. Today, she is worshiped by some Pagans. This article will discuss her history, her cult, and her mythology.

Demeter: Goddess of harvest, agriculture, and nature. Her symbols are bread and wheat. She is mother to Persephone and a sister to Hera, Zeus, Poseidon, and Hades. Demeter ended up falling in love with a mortal named Iasion. After Zeus discovered this he struck him dead with a lightning

Her worship is actually far older than that of her husband. Demeter is the goddess of the Earth, of agriculture, and of fertility in general. She symbolizes regenerative earth power over all living things. Her symbols are; Bread, Wheat, Cornucopia, and Torch. She had a daughter named Persephone.

He constructed the Abu Simbel, the Mortuary Temple Ramesseum, Pi-Ramesses, Temple at Karnak and many more. The Temple of Ramses II or the Abu Simbel, was a great accomplishment. Ramses included four statues of himself outside of this temple. These statues were carved from rock. Inside this accomplishment there are three halls that led oneself to the temples main room. Inside this magical room there are three statues of goddesses and Ramses the Great. Ramses built the temple so that twice a year the sun would align with the entrance. The Mortuary temple Ramesseum was made to be “Home of the King” after his death. This is where the kings’ body was to be held and was in great honor of the god Amun. This temple is larger than most other pharaohs temples are/were. The gateways of this temple were made from stone while many other temples gateways are made from mud brick. Some say this was to make the temple stand out showing that Ramses was the Greatest. Ramses two best architects, known as Penre and Amenemone, helped construct many rooms and even the structure of the building. This took about twenty-two years to build. The outside of this building was covered with decorations proving his love for the gods. Ramses the Great often incorporated the gods in his temples. There are a few decorations Ramses included honoring the battle of Kadesh, which he came to an agreement with the Hittites to sign a peace treaty. Ramses had a statue in the center of this temple that was formed from granite and was over twenty meters high. He named this marvelous statue, “Ramses, the sun of Foreign Sovereigns”. Ramses also made a metropolis. This was known as the Pi-Ramesse or “House of Ramesses, Great of Victories”. Ramses did not complete the building of the city until about twenty years after being crowned king. Ramses moved his city because it was said that he had family in Delta. This religious city was actually one of the biggest

Goddess of Beauty and Love and is the second planet from the sun. It is mainly

In pre-Islamic Arabia the three goddesses were known as “daughters of god”. From God’s many daughters there were three chief goddesses named: Al-Alat, Al- Uzza, Al- Manat. These goddesses equated the Greek-Roman goddesses Venus, Aphrodite, and Athena. Al-Uzza is known as “the strong one” and is the goddess of the morning and evening star Venus in Arab deities. The women invoked Al-Uzza from the rooftops, worshiped the star goddess. She is the goddess of love and war, and big cats were sacred to the goddess. Al-lat means “the goddess” she is known is “mother of the Gods” or the “Greatest of all”. Some of the worships also associate her with the “female version of Allah”. She was also identified as Isis from Egypt. [

She was a powerful magician and a skillful healer, and protected the young and the ill. The goddess represented all things feminine, and the qualities of a good wife and mother. The moon was a symbol of Isis. She was said to know all secrets. She also created and nurtured all living things.

Isis was known to be the goddess of fertility and motherhood. Egyptians say that she was the daughter of the god Keb (Earth) and the goddess Nut (Sky), wife and sister of Osiris, the sister of Seth, Nepythys, and the mother of Horus, the god of day. Isis shown in many photographs with miniature thrones or horns from her head and sometimes with a solar disc between the cows horns like Hathor. She was known to have taught Osiris all the aspects to agriculture. She taught the women to spin, weave, and flax

This research is on the Ancient Egyptian Culture. Ancient Egypt was located in Northeastern Africa along the Nile River. Egypt was divided into Upper and Lower Egypt from 5000 to 2950 BC; the unification of Egypt was around 3000 BC. Ancient Egypt was around until about 50 BC. The Egyptians are known for many accomplishments; they include: their complex irrigation system, hieroglyphics, and the practice of medicine, the calendar, their art, and the construction of the pyramids. The pyramids were built as monuments to honor the dead. There are many mysteries concerning the construction of the pyramids. This research will be directed towards the Great Pyramids at Giza. The pyramids are a very interesting subject matter because they are gigantic structures that were constructed by only the minds of early architects and the hands of many workers. This research will cover the ideas of how these Great Pyramids were constructed.

There are seven most remarkable structures of ancient times and I’m going to write about four out of the seven. The statue of Zeus, which was created in 432 B.C., by Phidius, the lighthouse Of Alexandria that was created by Sostratus in 290 B.C. and took 20 years to complete. The Temple of Artemis at Ephesus that was first created in 800 B.C. by Croesus and the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus that was built around 353 and 350 B.C. These are only four out of the seven wonders I will be writing about who commissioned and created each one of them. How they were built, where they were located, when was it constructed, why they were considered one of the seven wonders of the ancient world and what happened to them.