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Ishkhara
Ishkhara was a goddess of the ancient Near East, worshipped at Ebla in Syria from the third millennium BCE and later in Mesopotamia and among the Hurrians and Hittites. She was associated with love and with oaths, and she appears among the divine witnesses of treaties. Her symbol was the scorpion.
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