Posted on 09/06/2004 5:11:21 PM PDT by Destro
On monuments and seal-cylinders Inanna/Ishtar appears frequently with bow and arrow, though also simply clad in long robes with a crown on her head and an eight-rayed star as her symbol. This star, joined with the crescent moon, became a symbol of the Ottoman Empire and later of Islam.
I am laughing to think how the Greeks react to opening a mosque in Athens. An appropriate quid pro quo is it not?
Yes, the article also mentioned an origin myth involving a sun goddess. The Japanese have it too - the myth about descent of the Yamato people from the sun goddess Ameratasu Omikami.
A_Turk, what does Islam say about the origin of the crescent moon and star as Islamic symbols?
Nothing that I am aware of in the Koran..
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