Kvashilava, Gia, 2010. On Reading Pictorial Signs of the Phaistos Disk and Related Scripts (2). Rosette (in Georgian and English)

The Sumerian Great Queen/Lady of Heaven, Ninanna is
scribed with cuneiforms in the following way: Sumerian
, , , Old Babylonian
, Assyrian [ d nin·an·na]. 1
Sumerian and Akkadian names of the goddess ,
[ d na·na·a], d Nanã, d Nanãy, d Nanãya (resp.
Greek / ) – Nana 2 or Nanaya are connected to:
Babylonian Aya, which is the name of a star or a planet and
Sumerian [ d inana sar ] – a planet, Inanna/Ishtar 3
1 . Sumerian d nin·an·na (= dingir great lady/queen + heaven + genitive marker)
could be translated as the great lady of dawn.
2 . Comp.: Sogdian (Middle Iranian) goddess Nanā (Azarpay 1981, 132-139);
Old Armenian [Nané/Nanea] – goddess of the Evening Star, daughter
of the Old Armenian deity [Aramazd] (Gvelesiani 2009, 5).
Comp. Aramazd: Iranian god [Ahura-mazdā]; Old Georgian
deity [armazi] (Gvelesiani 2009, 4).
3.
Ishtar corresponds to: Sherida, Sumerian goddess of fertility and love
sitting astride a lion; Semitic Ashirta, Asharte/Astarte and Ashtoret/
Ashtarot, lion headed or sitting on a lion (comp. MPW 1991, I, 115). It
corresponds to: with Minoan or Asia Minor Great God-mother Rhea-Cybéle
guarded by Corybantes and lions, and the Cretan Goddess with snakes (Evans
1921, 504, 505, 656, 657; MPW 1991, I, 647, 179); identical to Ishtar are also:
the West Semitic Goddess of love and fertility Qadesh/Qodesh, setting astride
a lion with flowers and snakes in hand (MPW 1992, II, 21); the Egyptian
Goddess of the Heaven, fertility and love , [ ] – Hathor
(comp.: Evans 1921, 505 1 ; MPW 1992, II, 584); the Greek goddess of love and
beauty – Aphrodite; the Roman goddess of fertility Venus (Clay
1922, 45; Collier, Manley 2007, 157; MPW 1991, I, 231, 135), etc.
“Aphrodite is called by the Assyrians Mylitta, by the Arabians Alilat, by
the Persians Mitra” (Herodotus I, 131). Proto-Indo-Iranian *mitra- > Greco-
Roman Mithras.
Comp. the Akkadian goddess Ištar: Common-Indo-European *Hast [h] ar-;
Akkadian
; Hittite ašter; Avestan stərəbyō; Armenian
[astł/astġ]; Greek ; Latin stēlla < *stēl-na; Gothic staírnō; Old High
German sterno; German Stern; Old Icelandic stjarna; Aramaic ‛tr; Old
English steorra – star; Semitic *‛a tar- the divine star; Venus; South Arabian
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