Drawlloween 19

This prompt is Avatar.....

This is an  avatar of the flesh, a goddess of war and sex, of meat and fertility,  wool and grain. Known as Ishtar, Inanna, Astarte, and Ashtaroth through  history, she is a violent and deadly force to be reckoned with.

The  Throbbing Moon fell from the stars long before there was life on Earth.  Long before there was water or oxygen. Then there was only stone and  flame. Smoke and flesh.

Like a titanic  meatball it fell from the sky, a seed which collided with the planet and  sizzled as the flesh seared and burned from the primordial heat, and  soon grew the fleshwastes of the planet. It spread across the land for  miles before falling dormant, the flesh burning and weak from it's  travel, and sizzling and delicious from it's arrival. Ancient things  partook of the flesh as it slumbered, their forms bloating and ruptured  as they became one with the flesh, and others stole the first meat to  expand their own knowledge. The world cooled and the flesh became  dormant, it fell into a deep sleep as it froze and as the earth consumed  it. But still it's hearts beat and it's nerves twitched. It still was a  portion of a greater being deep within the yawning black and it still  breathed in a hibernating slumber, and as it slept it birthed a  protector, a champion of flesh, of the beginning of skin and of meat  that would protect the location where the mountainous creature  slumbered, and to steal back the flesh which had been stolen from it.  The beast was known as Humbaba.

For many  years Humbaba was a destructive force. During the earliest wars of man,  before mankind was mankind and when man and monkey had been barely  separated by the alien intelligence that granted a divine spark and  created our race, Humbaba struck down all in his path, tearing them  apart, mangled and bent as it rent the creatures before him. They had  stolen of the flesh while the mother slept, and it spent it's life  attempting to recover it.

Born from the  flesh was not only Humbaba, but others, birthed for tasks to protect the  meat mother and to recollect the flesh, yet spread it to the world like  a web, to enrapture all that exist to pull them back in again. These  things were given many names, Anu, Gugalanna the Bull of heaven,  The  Erymanthian Boar, The Babi ngepet, The Saehrimnir,and the Hydra to name  some, and those creatures went on to leave behind their own legacies or  destroy many kingdoms and cities and consume the flesh within. Anu was  an adjudicator, a destroyer and maker of kings, and his flesh was  twisted into the shape of a man so he could better command their  emotions. He went fourth and sought the stolen flesh by the elder things  and found the worshiping monkeys created by their craftsmanship, and  the Nephilim created through the breeding of the celestials and he  granted them power and capability as kings, instilling upon them the  humour of semen for potency, and was himself accepted as a deity by some  of their kind. He instilled the flesh of the mother into their people,  and in time when many priestesses had grown corpulent with the greed of  the throbbing moon he planted his seed within one and in violent birth  was born the goddess Ishtar, A child of the pure flesh, born of the  tainted and given the strength of the Nephilim, inheriting the strength  of the celestials.

Ishtar is small for a  Nephilim, but still stands taller than most humans. She has greatly  exaggerated hips, and a malleable body which she can transform into  various worm like appendages and mouths. She has control over much power  from many of the humours, however she mostly has command over magic of  semen and saliva, phlegm, and blood. She can command the flesh, and  through her carnal pleasures she can command her lovers and break their  bodies, or incite a horrid hunger or violence within them. She is  incredibly fast and nimble, and incredibly strong, commanding various  pheromones and causing those around her to fight or become amorous. Her  followers are often holy prostitutes, and due to her connection to the  fleshmother they are encouraged to consume infinitely and grow fat,  becoming infested with Gut worms and birthing them into the world with  great violence, for the creature to be worshiped by those followers  around her. Her symbol is a 6 or 8 pointed star, and it is believed that  she and the fleshmother may have first entered reality through a rift  on Venus, or came from the planet itself. She also ushered in the rise  of the Swine, granting them power and divine intelligence among the  people, and causing the large pig things to rise and begin wiping out  humans for a short time as manimals.

Ishtar  brought together the beings of flesh on the Earth, and brought them  great prosperity and corpulence, allowing her people to feast and grow  fat, though some would be granted the gift of the moon, a throbbing  pulsing thing within their bowels that writhed and grew until it  ruptured from within, massive worms known now as Gutworms, but then as  Marsadiri, which were seen as holy children and worshipped by some. The  worms aided the Nephilim in their war against the Fae, and with her  abilities as she worshipped the Throbbing moon she had been born from  she afflicted gluttony on the fae that crossed her path and continued to  return the flesh to whence it came through returning it to the mother,  or through devouring it herself. When the war ended against the Fae, the  wars became internal, as the Nephilim began to turn against the flesh  and against their rightful gods as Gilgamesh slew Humbaba after a long  battle. Ishtar demanded that Gilgamesh sire a child with her to replace  Humbaba, and he refused and so she called for vengeance and begged Anu  for the power of Gugalanna, and called fourth the bull of heaven to  strike down Gilgamesh and it is only able to strike disease into he and  his ally Enkidu, killing Enkidu and crippling Gilgamesh, though  Gugalanna was also slain. Gilgamesh was weakened greatly, allowing for  human rulers such as Sargon of Akkad to become the first ruler of the  Akkadian empire and being a part of what ushered the end of the Nephilim  reign  on the Earth.

Ishtar went off  seeking dominion over other powers, and began to obtain them with her  battles and victories against other gods and, and even consumed some of  her own, stealing their power and gaining their strength, even being  able to gather some of Marduk's fractured power that was left behind  when Marduk was sundered and cast into the void, and devouring Anu and  many of her other siblings and those of the flesh.

She  does not only have power over the creatures of Earth, and had taken  part in the Gods War which raged from Earth to Urth and beyond, and  aided in the corruption of the land and in the creation of Adephagia by  feeding her the tainted flesh of her mother and granting her control  over worms, and that she had clashed with Aphrodite and incited her  madness from a violent affair that took place between them as goddesses  of carnal flesh.

Seeing all that her  corruption had wrought, after she had grown with the world worm, she was  banished back to whence she came, cast into the stars, to never be seen  again. Though it is believed that she may be on the planet Venus,  resting as a location called Ishtar Terra.

Though  she is not around during this new tactical era for the Fleshmother, she  could easily adapt to the new methods of hunting their human prey in  the modern day.....