>>22008204Ishtar is where we get our word star from. They won't have had vowels or s/sh distinctions then so it is the same word. The star part of picrel and why we are all so sure stars have points and are not just tiny dots.
I suspect she is Holy Mary Mother of God and Queen of Heaven in Christian terms. There is another planet inset in the formation, likely Mars, the Son of God. He descends towards Earth every now and again and with an orbit that passes close to Earth today could happen again. So he seemingly would emerge from the "womb" of the Star.
The Virgin Mary could also be equivalent of the Moon. Nor is the Star necessarily Venus. It could be another planet shining so bright and Venus was born after. Maybe lost Apollo which is after all next in sequence. Or Mercury, if Mercury wasn't calved from Mars' Eye in the Battle of Hastings or local equivilent.
These identities are somewhat hard to pin down but all around the world "night" sounds the same as "no eight" - hypothesised as the missing eight pointed Star in the north.
