🏹 2025 Valentine Hunt; hints for clue 3

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🏹 2025 Valentine Hunt; hints for clue 3

1humouress
Feb 18, 2025, 8:40 am

Arrow 3

Queen of Heaven, goddess of war,
Of love and fertility, and so much more,
Many-named deity with her sacred dove,
She influenced many later goddesses of love.
(Abigail)

2humouress
Feb 18, 2025, 8:49 am

32 Maddz : Likely to be rather older than the ones you're thinking of!

33 keristars : Do you know how something very old might be called the Ur-Thing, suggesting it is the oldest known? This goddess is in many ways an Ur-Goddess.

Perhaps that hint helps?

57 amanda4242 : #3 is a character page.

Hint: The character is a Mesopotamian goddess.

Hint: She appears in the Epic of Gilgamesh under a different name.

59 Caramellunacy : I struggled with this one, too (I was using a different name for the goddess), but eventually found the right name. It isn't under tags, you are looking for a Common Knowledge character.

80 amanda4242 : Try searching Ishtar on Wikipedia; it will redirect you to the name needed here.

81 Caramellunacy : Not at all off base, I did the exact same thing. We were using the Assyrian/Babylonian/Akkadian. If you are open to google, putting in the term we were using gets you to the wikipedia article for the name the clue wants (which I think is the Sumerian term).

103 gypsysmom : I also tried all kinds of goddesses but when none of them worked I googled goddess of war love fertility and then searched the first result that came up.

3humouress
Edited: Feb 24, 2025, 12:29 am

111 amanda4242 : For #3 it is a character page, but you (may be) looking in the wrong pantheons.

You want a Mesopotamian goddess.

112 shadrach_anki : For Clue 3, You are looking for a CK character page. Think older, though.

4humouress
Edited: Feb 24, 2025, 12:32 am

CK character page

136 AranelST : If you look in the common knowledge (=CK) section of a work page, you can see a list of characters (if anyone has added any).

Another way to find the character page is to do a search and then, in the filters on the left, choose "common knowledge" and then "character".

137 amanda4242 : When a character is entered in Common Knowledge on a work page, a character page is created. The character page contains every CK entry for the character of that name. See https://www.librarything.com/character/Sherlock+Holmes for an example.

To find a specific page, enter the character's name in search, then click common knowledge in the menu on the left.

ETA: adding these to the 'General Strategies' thread; thanks