Inanna—that name could also be Ishtar.
The name meant "star."
Now that Iver had recovered the memories of his previous life, he also remembered the history and mythology he knew.
Ishtar held an extremely high position in mythology. There was even a period when she had been the supreme deity. The Babylonians' worship and praise of her later became the prototype for the hymns praising God in the Old Testament; her story, in turn, became the prototype for the Goddess of Love and Beauty in Greek Mythology.
As the Goddess of Nature and Harvest of Ancient Babylon, Ishtar was also the goddess of love, war, and fertility. Her father was the first God of Gods. However, these divine offices were unimportant... What mattered was what she had experienced in mythology.
Her husband was Tammuz, the God of Plants. Tammuz's father was Enki. He was the God of Water, the Creator of Life, and the King of the Earth. He was not the Creation God, but he was the founder of civilization. Tammuz was also known as Shepherd Dumuzid. He was the Ancient King of Bad-tibira, and was also called the Shepherd King.
In one version of the myth, after Tammuz died in an accident, Inanna ventured into the underworld alone and endured seven trials to reclaim her husband. However, with each level of the underworld she descended, she lost a layer of divinity, until she passed through the seven gates. By then, she was no different from a mortal and had lost all her divine power.
The myth had two continuations. One held that she defeated her sister Ereshkigal and brought her husband back. Thus, after winter, which represented death, spring returned and all things revived.
Another held that she, having lost all her divinity, also died in the underworld.