ASTAR=VENUS

While surfing the web I found the following in (http://library.thinkquest.org/C0118421/mesopot.html)

It could be that the name Aster in Aster Aweke, has orginated from Atrar meaning Venus..... This may be the case. In the preface of Abushaker it is stated that the ancients believe that solar eclipse occours when the star Akad covers the sun. I propose the following

1) we identify Venus as Astar or Aster,

2) The phenomenon of eclipse as Akad. In this case

2a) Solar Eclipse= ye-TSEHAI AKAD,

2b) Lunar Eclipse= ye-chereka AKAD

Our previous vocabulary: Meteore shower= Enderibi

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One of the principal stars in Mesopotamian religion and astronomy was Venus, embodified by the goddess Ishtar to the Babylonians and Assyrians, Astarte to the Phoenicians, Athtar in Arabia, Astar in Abyssinia (now Ethiopia), and Ashtart in Canaan and Israel. As Ishtar of Erech (in Babylonia)she was worshipped in connection with the evening star, while as Ishtar of Akkad (also in Babylonia) she was identified with the morning star. Ishtar was called "the eldest of heaven and earth", and daughter of Anu, the god of heaven. She was the goddess of love and beauty, the "Great Mother", and to the Assyrians, a goddess of hunting and war.