The birth of the morning star was a widely popular motif in the legends of Eastern and Western nations. Time and time again the image appears in the same way. A Burning star interrupted the visible movement of the Sun, and became a morning-evening star, and caused a World-fire.
In Babylon the morning-evening star was called Ishtar, which when translated means the "Star of Lamentations".
The following is from Langdon, Sumerian and Babylonian Psalms, 1909:
Because I make the heavens tremble and the earth shake,
For the glow that illuminates the sky,
For the flames of fire that rain upon the hostile country, I am Ishtar.
Ishtar I am, because of the light that rises in the sky.
Ishtar, the celestial queen I am, because of the light that rises in the sky
That is my fame.
I conquer the mountains completely.
That is my fame.