Ishtar is the East Semitic Akkadian, Assyrian and Babylonian goddess of fertility, love, war, and sex.

She is the counterpart to the Sumerian Inanna, and is the cognate for the Northwest Semitic Aramean goddess Astarte,

From the name Astarte in other culture and nations, this goddess has gone by the name called Ashtoreth.

From the name Ashtoreth derive the word Eastheroth or Easter.

Because Ishtar was associated with the planet Venus, the star is also known as the Star of Venus – corresponding to the sin when Eve, ate from the tree of knowledge of good and evil.

Ishtar was designed as a female goddess who will continue and prolong the iniquity or sin of Eve, which gained it’s roots from the garden in Eden.

This evil spirit of Ishtar or Easteroth is the evil inclination which plays the role of prostituting the woman female nature (mother nature), transforming it into the status of a harlot, which leads to the act of sexual immoral that has destroyed most of the great men and leaders.

Revelation 17:5

And on her forehead a name was written: MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND OF THE ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.

Proverbs 5:3-5

For the lips of an immoral woman drip honey, And her mouth is smoother than oil;

But in the end she is bitter as wormwood, Sharp as a two-edged sword. Her feet go down to death,
Her steps lay hold of hell.

It is written in – Leviticus 19:29 

Do not prostitute your daughter, to cause her to be a harlot, lest the land (earth) fall into harlotry, and the land (earth) become full of wickedness

Revelation 17:2

with whom the kings of the earth committed fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth were made drunk with the wine of her fornication

Revelation 18:3

For all the nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth have become rich through the abundance of her luxury.”

Revelation 18:9

The World Mourns Babylon’s Fall ] “The kings of the earth who committed fornication and lived luxuriously with her will weep and lament for her, when they see the smoke of her burning,

The enemies of God, rule, control and even defeat Israel in war because of the spirit of Ashtoreth that was in midst of Israel:

Then they cried out to the Lord, and said, ‘We have sinned, because we have forsaken the Lord and served the Baals and Ashtoreths; but now deliver us from the hand of our enemies, and we will serve You.’

1 Samuel 7:3

Then Samuel spoke to all the house of Israel, saying, “If you return to the Lord with all your hearts, then put away the foreign gods and the Ashtoreths from among you, and prepare your hearts for the Lord, and serve Him only; and He will deliver you from the hand of the Philistines.”