> simply saying that Ashtar is Venus leaves out the meaningful
> question "what does the word mean?". The Hurrian version also seems
> like a duplicated word like "mother of mothers".
Hannahannah meant "Grandmother" in Hurrian. In this case she was
frequently called "The Mother of All Living" - a title also of the
Sumerian Goddess Ninhursag. *Athtar is linked to PIE *ister (for
English star), and seems to have been another word with Nostratic
roots.