id	author	title	date	pages	extension	mime	words	sentence	flesch	summary	cache	txt
17326	Maspero, G. (Gaston)	History of Egypt, Chaldæa, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, Volume 6 (of 12)			.txt	text/plain	114566	4123	63	**** Belit is called by Tiglath-pileser I. �the great spouse beloved of Assur,� but Belit, �the lady,� is here merely an epithet used for Ishtar: the Assyrian Ishtar, Ishtar of Assur, Ishtar of Nineveh, or rather--especially from the time of the Sargonids--Ishtar of Arbeles, is almost always a fierce and warlike Ishtar, the �lady of combat, who directs battles,� �whose heart incites her to the combat and the struggle. He took vengeance upon the two peoples who had refused to give him bread, and having thus fulfilled his vow, he began to question his prisoners, the two chiefs: �What manner of men were they whom ye slew at Tabor?� �As thou art, so were they; each one resembled the children of a king.	cache/17326.txt	txt/17326.txt
