Sumerian gods were also thought to be largely related to each other, ... The sister of Inanna, Ereshkigal was married to Nergal, the god of war, death, and disease.

The “Burney Relief,” which is believed to represent either Ishtar, the Mesopotamian goddess of love and war, or her older sister Ereshkigal, Queen of the underworld (c. 19th or 18th century BC).

Inanna was the Sumerian goddess of love and cosmic laws. Besides this, she was the patron deity of fertility, grain, healing and even war. Inanna, the beautiful ...