Venus in Podcasts
conceptPlanet known for its brightness, associated with the goddess Ishtar in Mesopotamian astronomy.
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The Ancients
Origins of Astronomy
This was Dilibat, the Sumerian name for Venus, the shining planet strongly associated with the goddess Ishtar. Balasi was in awe of Venus and the rest of this great divine world above, but he was also annoyed that Only recently, another scholar had mistakenly identified Venus as Mercury. How this scholar could have made such an error was beyond ballassy.