Hate to say it, Salyavin, but it looks like somebody messed with your gal. Here's a photo of the same British Museum sculpture from Wikipedia:
She doesn't look at all disgruntled in this photo. Wha' hoppen? ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <no_re...@yahoogroups.com> wrote : ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <sharelong60@...> wrote : Richard, why would Dawkins do that?! He probably googled it. It's hardly an uncommon belief. The web seems split down the middle I would say. I love the sculpture of Ishtar It's in the British Museum and it's one of the top five things I would take home if they let me. She is highly mysterious looking. The owls give me the creeps though, and as for those feet! I think we need to lure him into the Funny Farm Lounge (-: We'd enjoy his company I'm sure, he's quite a learned chap if a trifle uncompromising. He learned TM once but wasn't impressed so we'd have a bit of common ground at least. I imagine he'd be a bit sniffy about most of what gets discussed here though. On Sunday, April 20, 2014 10:51 AM, Richard J. Williams <punditster@...> wrote: On 4/20/2014 9:43 AM, Share Long wrote: > Richard, what a wonderful post, a beautiful picture and fascinating > knowledge. > Thanks, Share, but I have some bad news: Richard Dawkins was telling a big fib - there is no historical connection between "Easter" and "Ishtar". When was the last time you heard somebody pronounce Easter as "E - a - i - s - h - t - a - r?" Go figure. --- This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is active. http://www.avast.com
