Ishtar has 2 different meanings across 2 categories:
Noun · Proper Noun
Babylonian and Assyrian goddess of love and fertility and war; counterpart to the Phoenician Astarte
A goddess of fertility, love, sex and war. In the Babylonian pantheon, she was the divine personification of the planet Venus; the Assyrian and Babylonian counterpart to the Sumerian Inanna and to the northwest-Semitic goddess Astarte.