Geography/Culture: Mesopotamia: Babylonian.
Description: All-accepting One; Queen of women; She Who is laden with vitality, charm and voluptuousness; She Who gives the power of reproduction and increase in the fields; Goddess of fertility, sexual love and sacramental promiscuity; Matron of priestess-hierodules; She Who causes and relieves sexual anxiety; She Who mellows the behaviour of men; She Who generates the attraction between sexes in all animals including humanity; She Who adorns the male for the female and the female for the male; She Whose gift is physical rapport and the satisfaction of desire; She without Whom nothing is conceived; Granter of reproduction; Opener of the womb.
She is the origin of the biblical writer's hatred of Babylon, the Great Whore, Mother of Harlots.
To Whom Sacred: bird; window; nudity; menses; estrus; menstrual blood; sacred prostitution {it is society's misfortune that monotheism has made the courtesan a criminal}; the full moon (called the sabattu, 'Day of the Heart's Rest', when the moon is neither increasing nor decreasing; the Goddess was believed to be menstruating at this time for which reason it was considered unlucky to work, eat cooked food, or go on a journey).
Iconography: Little shrines containing Her image (where She was represented nude and seated in a window-frame), were set up in the houses of ancient Babylon). Such images are also found in Phoenicia approximately 825 BC.

Titles/Variants, etc:
• Har, {Pregnant-Mountain}. below, is probably an alternate name.
• Title of Ishtar, Light-Giving, as The-Promiscuous'.
• She is akin to Persian Jahi, Y*HE, ----, the Whore.
• Her name bears resemblance to Hindu Kelikila, Wanton, Who is linked with Rati, Delight-Giver.
• Short form: Kilili.
• She has a kinship with Lilith, Nocturnal-One.
• In Palestine a similar conception of the Goddess was known as Qadesh, Holy-One, She is linked with Anath, {Strength-of-Life}.

Geography/Culture: Sumerian.

Titles/Variants, etc:
• Aspect of Akkadian Ishtar, Light-Giving.
• Perhaps related to Zib, ----, below.

Geography/Culture: Sumerian.
Description: Goddess of love.

Titles/Variants, etc:
• Aspect of Akkadian Ishtar, Light-Giving.
• Perhaps related to Zib, ----, below.

Geography/Culture: Babylonia.
Linguistic Note: from the root har came hara, Hebrew for both a holy mountain and a pregnant belly. {Presumably based on the element -khar as in the name of Nin-Kharsag. It seems possible that the Char- element in the name of the triple Chariteae, may also be etymologically related. Related English words: harlot(s), harem.
Description: Goddess of sexuality and its mysteries; the Compassionate Prostitute.
To Whom Sacred: the Harines, see below.

Titles/Variants, etc:
• See also pre-Vedic Dravadian Hariti, The-Snatcher, with an alternate meaning to Her name of Lofty-Mountain. She is linked with Hindustani Jara, Growing-Old.
• Can the Har- in Greek Harmonia, Concord, (the Goddess Whose name this is is linked with Concordia, With-the-Heart) be also related to Har, {Pregnant-Mountain}?
• Har is a title of Akkadian Ishtar, Light-Giving, as "The Compassionalte Prostitute".

Geography/Culture: Babylonia.
Description: {Multiple Goddess as incarnated in} sacred harlot Priestesses; Those Who bestow sovereignty and bring peace; Those Whose impregnation proves virility and the good graces of the Goddess; Teachers of the sexual mysteries.
They occupied that part of the temple which came to be called the Harem, 'sanctuary'.

Titles/Variants, etc:
• Incarnations of the Goddess Har, {Pregnant-mountain}.
• They may have affinities with the Greek Horai, Seasons.
• They have affinities with the Semitic Hors, H4S, ----.
• They have affinities with the Persian Houris, below.

Geography/Culture: Islamic.
Linguistic Note: the word houris is related to Greek Horai, qv. Harines, above.
Description: Beautiful celestial emanations of the Goddess, Who will be awarded to the faithful when they reach heaven.
Source: Walker WEMS.

Geography/Culture: Babylonian, Mesopotamian.
Description: Goddess of sexual desire.
To Whom Sacred: the evening star.

Titles/Variants, etc:
• Title of Akkadian Ishtar, Light-Giving.
• Perhaps to be related to Abtagigi, She-Who-Sends-Messages-of-Desire, above.
• Perhaps to be related to Absusu, ----, above.