Keep talkin. I hadn’t set the time aside yet to look into Ishtar and I’m really enjoying the research you did here.
I mean, I could keep talking? Pretty much anything you want to know about Ishtar I can probably answer, most of it off the top of my head by now. I have spent enough time in the mythology portal of wikipedia to convince Rupert Giles that computers are a worthwhile invention.
And I literally have a copy of the Epic of Gilgamesh not four feet from where I’m sitting right now. (As well as a lovely Sumerian myth about worms being the reason we get toothaches. Fun stuff.)
But the easier thing to do would probably be to just link my Sumer Society tag (SHAMELESS SELF-PLUG) where all my meta is posted. (”Sumer Society” is a former Skype group from back in season 1 where me and a fellow myth nerd teamed up with some bio/med nerds to figure out what the heck the Dean, who at the time we ID’d as a Greek Lilith parallel named Lamia, was doing with a bunch of fungal brain parasites. We fell out of contact but all my meta is still posted under that tag.)
“Easier” doesn’t necessarily mean “more time efficient” though. Because I have posted rather a lot of meta and most of my posts are impressively long. It would take a long time to read through them all, especially if you keep going all the way back to the season 1 stuff. Which is still good, but a lot less relevant now.
If it genuinely interests you though, good place to read through a lot of heavily researched stuff that deviates a lot from some of the more popular theories in the fandom. I’ve broken down the chess theory, spitballed probably half a dozen different endgame scenarios with the Gates and Mother’s resurrection, Vordenberg’s apparent loyalty to the Dean, talked about the nature and extent of Perry’s possession, all kinds of things.
And I have an overdue post about why the Corvae Corp is loyal to the Dean that I really need to get around to writing before the season is over.
Otherwise I guess you could just ask me anything you want to know about Ishtar or Sumerian/Akkadian mythology in general? Even if I don’t know the answer offhand, I’ll almost certainly know where to look.