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Inanna (Sumerian: nin.an.a, literally "Lady of the Heavens") is a Sumerian goddess, the consort of Dumuzid and Zababa. In Sumerian poetry, she is sometimes portrayed as a coy young girl under patriarchal authority (though at other times as an ambitious goddess seeking to expand her influence, e.g., in the partly fragmentary myth Inana and Enki, ETCSL 1.3.1 and in the myth Inana's Descent to the Netherworld, ETCSL 1.4.1).[1]
Inanna's cult center was Uruk.
Inanna is the origin deity of the later deities: Ishtar, Astarte, Isis, Aphrodite, Venus, Freya, and Pinikir.
Symbols
Counterparts
- Jesus Christ. In both origin stories, the deity is impaled, goes to hell, and is resurrected after three days (Inana's Descent to the Netherworld, ETCSL 1.4.1).
References
- ↑ Oracc, Inana/Ištar (goddess)