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from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • proper noun (Babylonian and Assyrian Mythology) The goddess of love and fertility and war; also called Ishtar; the counterpart of Ashtoreth and Astarte.

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  • noun Babylonian and Assyrian goddess of love and fertility and war; counterpart to the Phoenician Astarte

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Examples

  • Thus at Babylon every woman, whether rich or poor, had once in her life to submit to the embraces of a stranger at the temple of Mylitta, that is, of Ishtar or Astarte, and to dedicate to the goddess the wages earned by this sanctified harlotry.

    Chapter 31. Adonis in Cyprus 1922

  • Thus at Babylon every woman, whether rich or poor, had once in her life to submit to the embraces of a stranger at the temple of Mylitta, that is, of Ishtar or Astarte, and to dedicate to the goddess the wages earned by this sanctified harlotry.

    The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion 1922

  • Thus at Babylon every woman, whether rich or poor, had once in her life to submit to the embraces of a stranger at the temple of Mylitta, that is, of Ishtar or Astarte, and to dedicate to the goddess the wages earned by this sanctified harlotry.

    The Golden Bough James George Frazer 1897

  • The Babylonians worshipped Ashtoreth as Mylitta, that is, generative.

    Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible 1871

  • Thus at Babylon every woman, whether rich or poor, had once in her life to submit to the embraces of a stranger at the temple of Mylitta, that is, of Ishtar or Astarte, and to dedicate to the goddess the wages earned by this sanctified harlotry.

    The Golden Bough : a study of magic and religion 1583

  • ZARRELLA: Mylitta now needs a sitter in the mornings to care for Joseph until his bus comes to pick him up.

    CNN Transcript Aug 13, 2008 2008

  • ZARRELLA: Mylitta knows hers is an extreme situation.

    CNN Transcript Aug 13, 2008 2008

  • ZARRELLA: Mylitta now needs a sitter in the mornings to care for Joseph until his bus comes to pick him up.

    CNN Transcript Aug 13, 2008 2008

  • In another phase she was Venus Mylitta = the Procreatrix, in Chaldaic

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • ZARRELLA: Mylitta knows hers is an extreme situation.

    CNN Transcript Aug 13, 2008 2008

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