This is a mysterious relief that depicts some sort of bird woman speculated to be Ishtar, Inanna...

This is a mysterious relief that depicts some sort of bird woman speculated to be Ishtar, Inanna, or some sort of outsider cult's focus on an evil goddess mid transformation to bird that has a greater detail than ones from the same time, suggesting it might not be authentic. Say something nice about it!

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looks pretty darn cool, would love to know more about it

Occultism

She's the daughter of El, the demon god of the Canaanites. She's pleasure; her brother Ba'al is reason or weather, and their brother Molech is death to infants.

So the idea is that a corrupt and perverse people worship science/reason, etc., put pleasure as their main pursuit, and have a way to kill all of the unwanted babies.

Astart, Ashterah, Ishtar; they're all the same pagan demon goddess.

nice tits

Ishtar?

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>El, the demon god of the Canaanites
it's a weird way of spelling "creator of heaven and earth, father of gods, ruler of universe"

>She's pleasure
No she isn't

>their brother Molech is death to infants
there was no deity named Molech

>Astart, Ashterah, Ishtar; they're all the same pagan demon goddess.
Astart was mostly a goddess of hunting and of personal protection, friend and possible lover of Baal Hadad but not his consort
Aszera was a mother queen of gods, wife of El and mother of elohim
Ishtar wasn't a Canaanite goddess for God's sake, she was Mesopotamian
the part about "demon goddess" is so dumb I cannot even imagine

thats just the sphinx from oedipus' plays

He's a christard. They always ignore or downplay history in favor of the bible.

basically we cannot be sure who exactly is presented here
answer "Ishtar" is just a speculation no better than "Lamashtu" (who, contrary to what said about Ishtar, was really demon goddess).
Also it could be one of the hundreds of other female deities or spirits, or even one unnamed female protector spirit (which also would be fine).
Ishtar is almost never associated with birds, for instance, so her having those feet is highly unlikely. However, it's not impossible.

Also, fun fact for you, there were many Ishtar goddesses in ANE, especially since VIII century BCE (Assyrian times). In those times you could have many Ishtars on one god's list - one unspecified Ishtar (the "main one") was relatively high on the list but local "manifestations" were treated like totally different goddesses, like Ishtar-of-Nineveh and Ishtar-of-Arbela.