Ishtar (Mesopotamian Mythology)/Apex Predator GX

## Summary

**Ishtar** is the Mesopotamian goddess of love, beauty, sex, desire, fertility, war, justice, and political power. Her main consort is Damuzid and her parentage varies between An, Enlil, and Nanna and Ningal. She is the queen of the gods and is associated with the planet Venus.

## **Information**:

**Name**: Ishtar, Inanna

**Age**: Thousands of years old

**Gender**: Female

**Source**: Mythology

**Power Level**: **7-A**

**Classification**: Goddess of love, queen of the gods

**Notable Abilities**: Superhuman Physical Characteristics, Immortality (Type 1), Empathic Manipulation, Life Manipulation, Summoning (Can summon the Bull of Heaven), Shapeshifting (Sometimes took the form of a dove), Biological Manipulation (In one Arkaddian hymn to Ishtar, she could change men into women), True Flight (Described as flying, "Across the sky like a rainbow.), Civilization Manipulation (Took the *mes*, powers or properties that are held by the gods that allow civilization to be possible, from Enki), Transmutation (In *Inanna and Shukaletuda*, turned the waters of the Earth into blood. In *Inanna and Bilulu*, turns Bilulu into a waterskin.), Weather Manipulation (Creates storms around the city of Uruk),Light Manipulation (In *Inana and Ebih*, she is described as bringing light to mountain ranges and to the *girin* plant.), Water Manipulation (Created a flood against the mountain Ebih to drown its forests), Fire Manipulation (Created fires to burn down Mt. Ebih's forests. Owns the *mes*, or divine power, of kindling the flame and extinguishing the flame), Age Manipulation (Owns the *mes* of venerable old age), Air Manipulation (In her search for Shukaletuda, she allowed the north and south winds pass)

**Energy Capacity**: **Mountain Scale** (Destroyed the mountain Ebih. Burned down and flooded a forest. Can create storms, In *The Exaltation of Inana*, she causes cities to tremble.)

**Speed Level**: **Superhuman** (As a dove since they can fly at 55 mph, or 88 km/h)

**Strength Level**: **Unknown**

**Resilience Level**: **Mountain Scale**

* **Resistances**: Unknown

**Arsenal**:

* **Standard**: Boat of Heaven, measuring stick, lance, battering-rams, shield, throwing sticks, shepherd's sling, bow and arrows, dagger, sword, club.

**Intelligence**: A goddess with thousands of years of experience. She is also a god of war. She also own the *mes*, or divine powers, of deceit, attentiveness, counseling, decision-making, the establishing of plans, and wisdom,

**Weaknesses**: Ishtar is incredibly arrogant, capricious, a sower of discord, and entitled. Her clothes and equipment represent her *mes*, and if they are removed, she loses her powers. Her empathic manipulation does not work on anyone who is deaf and blind.

**Stamina**: Likely very high (Ishtar owns the *mes*, or divine power, of hard work and constancy. After looking across the Earth and Heavens for falsehood and justice, she became tired and went to sleep under the shade of a tree)

**Range**: Likely Planetary (Sent plagues among the Earth when she was violated by the gardener, Shukaletuda)

**Environment**: Varies, Comes from Underworld

**Feats**:

* Battled Veles.