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[[File:Pleiades and Venus in blue dawn 2020.jpg|alt=photograph|thumb|Pleiades and Venus in the morning sky.]]
a Mesopotamian term for the planet Venus.

==Dictionary==
=== Kurtik with Hilder, Hoffmann, Horowitz, Kim ===
= <sup>mul</sup>''Aḫātu'' "Sister"; 

an epithet of Ishtar as the planet Venus, who was considered the sister of the sun god Shamash [Lambert 1987, 95; Tallqvist 1938, 332-333].
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| A Hittite Prayer to the Gods of the Night. 

* In the first place: <sup>mul</sup>''a-ḫa-ti'' [KUB IV, 47 r. 43; BPO 2, 2:1; Van der Toorn 1985, 129:43], see also (Kurtik a15) ''[[Aḫû]]'' 
In this source, there are five terms (''a-ha-ti, ga-ga, dumuzi, ninkizida, shulpae'') and there are five star-like planets. Lambert 1987 equals them to (Venus, Mercury, Saturn, Mars, Jupiter).
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[Lambert 1987, 95/96]

"Venus (Itar) can only be the first: a-ha-ti. This, we suggest, is ''aḫati'' "sister (of)", rather than ''ahatti'' "outside" etc., since Itar was sister of Samag, the sun, the most conspicuous heavenly body. Identification of the other three is uncertain. Antagal G 309 (apud CAD salbatinu) identified Simut, an Elamite god of the netherworld (= Nergal: AfK 2 72 16) as ''Salbatanu'', Mars. So it could be argued that Ningigzida in this list, being a Sumerian god of the netherworld, is Mars. Then since Dumuzi(d) would be ''maru kinu'' in Akkadian translation, Kayamanu (Saturn), being linguistically a fuller form of kfnu, might mean Dumuzi.

Then since Kakka under his aliases Ningubur, Ilabrat and Papsukkal became a vizier or messenger of all the gods, he could be Mercury because the Greek god equivalent to Mercury, Hermes, was an errand boy for the other gods." 

== Historical Dictionaries == 
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! scope="col" style="width: 60%;" | Kurtik (2022, a14)
! scope="col" style="width: 40%;" | Gössmann (1950) 
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| = <sup>mul</sup>''Aḫātu'' «Сестра»(?); эпитет Иштар как планеты Венеры, которая считалась сестрой бога Солнца Шамаша [Lambert 1987, 95; Tallqvist 1938, 332–333].
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Хеттская молитва ночным богам. На первом месте: mula-ḫa-ti [KUB IV, 47 r. 43; BPO 2, 2:1; Van der Toorn 1985, 129:43], см. также a15Aḫû.
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== References == 
* [[References (Babylonian)|Kurtik's references]]

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