Washti
 washti
(Vashti), according to the story of the 
megillat Ester (the Scroll of Esther) was the wife
of Ahasuerus, before 
"ester" (Esther).
- In the Bible, her name is only mentioned in the .
- The name has not been found in any of the records or inscriptions
of Persia.
- The etymology of the name is also unknown, although some scholars
have connected it with an Elamite goddess "Mashti".
But except for few names, nothing is known about the Elamite
religion, because no epic or religious written material
has been discovered in the as yet undeciphered Elamite
Language, which is completely different from all other
languages known in that area.
Only a few features are known: the suffix "-p" for plural,
some verbal forms, and the personal pronouns.
Cuneiform on clay tablets was used in their writings,
as in Mesopothamia.
- The theory that the succession of
by is no more
than a symbolic representation of the victory of Ishtar the
Babylonian fertility goddess over the Elamite goddess Mashti,
is still unfounded.
- The modest described
in the , is later
slandered in the
 talmud
(Talmud) and commentaries, because how was it possible that
the modest was
replaced by the Jewish
as Queen?
- For example Megilla 12b:
Ahasuerus said to them (the guest) a tool which I use is neither
Median nor Persian but Chaldean, do you want to see it? They
say to him: only if she is naked, because as a person measures
so will he be measured; from this we learn, that the evil
Vashti used to take Jewish girls and strip them until they
were naked, and let them work on Shabbat, because it is written:
After these things, when the wrath of King Ahashuerus
was appeased, he remembered Vashti, and what she had done
and what was decreed against her (Est. 2:1).
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