If you've played as, or simped for Ishtar or Ereshkigal you may have been unknowingly roped into an occult Mesopotamian theurgical rite.

But you definitely have been pulled in if you've gotten hornt over these two.

Meister Eckhart tells us that reason must play its part so that the Son of God may be born within it - an allusion to Plato's midwifery of sapientia from the Symposium and Gen. 1:26. Both texts teach the
internal relationship between the nature of reason and the birth of God.

“The soul is more present where that is which it loves, than where it enlivens a body.” as Eckhart fondly quotes of St. Augustine. Intellect becomes what it is after. It does not simply exist in fixity, the soul forms itself according to its objects.

Naturally then, when one comes to love these refracted images of Mesopotamian deities, what happens to the intellect? We might say that the godessess are born within it.

Eckhart and Ficino give us an out, not just from the various occult rituals of modernity we unwittingly participate, but from being drenched in images that are then borne in intellect - to become detached from images and diffuse the will of the self.

Love above all Love itself [1 John 4:7] He shall be born within you. Once you have cultivated the soul in such a manner, you need not fret over images.