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Mylitta

noun
1.
Babylonian and Assyrian goddess of love and fertility and war; counterpart to the Phoenician Astarte.  Synonym: Ishtar.



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"Mylitta" Quotes from Famous Books



... chastity to make one desperate—a sublime coldness—an ignorance of all possibilities of human passion, such as would have made the moon-bright eyes of Phoebe or the sea-green eyes of Athena appear by comparison more liquidly tempting than those of a young girl of Babylon sacrificing to the goddess Mylitta within the cord-circled enclosure of Succoth-Benohl. Their invincible virginity seemed to ...
— King Candaules • Theophile Gautier


Words linked to "Mylitta" :   Assyria, Babylon, Semitic deity


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