Pinikir

Astral goddess of love and the sky, 'Commander of Heaven'; a cosmopolitan deity later absorbed into the Hurrian pantheon as Ishtar.

Domains

• love and sex
• the stars
• sky

Powers

• Command the heavens as sovereign of the sky
• Shine as the astral planet Venus
• Shining as the planet Venus

Epithets

• kik(ki) galirra

Relations

• interpretatio: Inanna

Sources

• Old Elamite treaty of Naram-Sin; Hattusa Akkadian–Hurrian rituals
• Encyclopaedia Iranica, ELAM vi. Elamite religion