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	Ishtar - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Ishtar is the Akkadian counterpart to the Sumerian Inanna and to the cognate northwest Semitic goddess Astarte.
		Inanna was the guardian of prostitutes, and probably had priestess-prostitutes to serve her.
		Inanna was also associated with beer, and was the patroness of tavern keepers, who were usually female in early Mesopotamia.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ishtar (1164 words)

	Encyclopedia: Inanna (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Inanna held "full power of judgment and decision and the control of the law of heaven and earth." Her sacred planet was Venus, the evening star.
		In later times, Inanna's lost some of her attributes, which were then said then to have been given her by Enki, rather than by her grandmother Nammu and her mother Ningal.
		The myth states that Inanna traveled to Eridu and was given the one hundred Mes, which were the gifts of culture such as truth and justice, as well as practical skills such as weaving and pottery-making.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Inanna (2360 words)

	Inanna
		Inanna (or Inana) was the paramount goddess of the Sumerian pantheon.
		Usually Inanna is depicted wearing a horned headdress and tiered shirt, with wings and with weapon cases at her shoulders.
		Inanna is one of three deities involved in the primordial battle of good and evil, the latter personified by the dragon Kur.
	www.themystica.org /mythical-folk/articles/inanna.html (806 words)

	Entrance to the shrine of Inanna, Sumerian Mother-Goddess
		Inanna Hymn: The Joy of Sumer - The Sacred Marriage Rite
		Inanna passed the seven portals of kur-nu-gi-a,and at each of the portals she was obliged to remove an item of clothing,until at last she stood before Ereshkigal, totally naked.
		Inanna is restored to life and ascends like the moon after its three days' death to assume her place once more as Queen of Heaven.
	inanna.virtualave.net /inanna.html (1177 words)

	The Descent of Inanna (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		When Inanna challenged the gatekeeper to gain entry into the kur, he consulted with Ereshkigal, telling her that a giant and powerful goddess, arrayed in splendor and with signs of authority, was waiting to enter Her realm.
		Inanna, as Queen of Heaven and Earth, represents the ego, the conscious ruler of the known psyche.
		In one translation, Inanna is frequently referred to as "the pure Inanna" (Henderson and Oakes).
	www.jelder.com /mythology/inanna.html (2042 words)

	Inanna (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Inanna immediately loaded the objects onto the boat of heaven and set sail for her city, Erech.
		By then, of course, Inanna had gained the safety of her kingdom, and even the seven tricks Enki played on her did not regain him his treasures.
		Piece by piece, Inanna gave up her jewelry and clothing until she stood splendid and naked before Eriskegal, the naked fl haired goddess of death, who turned her eyes of stone on the goddess from the upper world.
	www.hranajanto.com /goddessgallery/inanna.html (846 words)

	Inanna - An Opera of Ancient Sumer
		Inanna protests, but she is reminded that “the ways of the Underworld are perfect; they may not be questioned.” She is stripped of her seven signs of royalty and is left wearing only a simple shift.
		Inanna is vexed at this news as she does not wish the miseries of the Underworld on anyone.
		Inanna and Geshtinanna bemoan Dumuzi’s fate as Inanna now repents of her decision to have him be her surrogate in the Underworld.
	www.craton.net /inanna/main.php?action=synopsis (1973 words)

	Inanna
		Inanna is the most important goddess of the Sumerian pantheon in ancient Mesopotamia.
		Inanna figures prominently in various myths, such as 'Inanna's descent to the underworld'.
		Inanna is regarded as a daughter of the sky-god An, but also of the moon-god Nanna.
	www.pantheon.org /articles/i/inanna.html (203 words)

	INANNA-QUEEN OF HEAVEN
		She was known as Inanna in southern Sumer and in the North she manifested herself in later centuries as Ishtar.
		As the Queen of Earth, Inanna is the Goddess of Fertility.
		Inanna is well known from the many myths that tell of her exploits.
	www.pinn.net /~swampy/inanna2.html (2119 words)

	Goddess Altar of Ishtar & Inanna
		The Knot of Inanna is sacred to the Goddess.
		Inanna's rising from the dead is a forerunner of the christian story of Jesus's resurrection, which parallels the earlier Inanna journey.
		Inanna is known as "First Daughter of the Moon" Sitting upon Her lapis lazuli throne, She was the beloved Goddess of Sumeria.
	www.spiralgoddess.com /Inanna.html (479 words)

	Inanna
		Inanna is the Queen of Heaven and Earth and the Goddess of Love.
		Inanna was eternally youthful, dynamic, fierce, sensuous, the harlot-virgin, never settled nor domesticated, magnetic, yet independent.
		At the same time, Inanna’s myths also show the incursions of the patriarchy, her gradual dispossession and loss of status.
	www.halexandria.org /dward384.htm (753 words)

	The Hieros Gamos Part 1: Exorcising Bitter-Sweet Hystery
		Inanna, whom we may also identify with Ishtar, Ashtoreth, Aphrodite, Astarte, to a certain extent Asherah, and Oestre, Ostara, the sea goddess Mari, or Miriam and many others, is the evening star, the Sumerian Queen of Heaven.
		Inanna decides to experience the dark side her elder sister Ereshkigal knows as Queen of the Underworld in the death rites of the Sacred Bull of Heaven, Gugalanna, thus disguising her formal purpose of discovery in the formal act of witnessing the death rites of another.
		Inanna afterwards laments her actions and searches for him and ensures his resurrection so that he can be brought back for six months of the year to ensure the fertility of both the womb and the soil.
	www.dhushara.com /book/hieros/hieros.htm (8832 words)

	Inanna
		Inanna's role of mediating the production of useful material from the unconscious is further illustrated by her depiction as a lion-goddess, with seven lions drawing her chariot.
		Despite her attributes of fertility, harvest and abundance, Inanna is not to be confused with maternal goddesses.
		Although Inanna's relationship with her own mother Ningal, was harmonious, she was implacably opposed to Great Mother symbols, particularly Kur, which is variously represented as the underworld, a great serpent, or a mountain guarding it.
	www.zyworld.com /DrBernardSButler/Inanna.htm (2215 words)

	Sumerian Mythology FAQ
		He is friendly to Inanna and rescued her from Kur by sending two sexless beings to negotiate with, and flatter Ereshkigal.
		Inanna appeals to Utu about her unwelcome guests, but he is unsympathetic.
		Inanna is rescued by the intervention of Enki.
	home.comcast.net /~chris.s/sumer-faq.html (10387 words)

	Ishtar, Inanna - Demons, Demonology, and Evil of the Eastern and Asian Cultures
		In order to reach Ereshkigal, Inanna needed to pass through the seven gates of the underworld, and was not allowed to pass through unless she removed an article of clothing for each of gate.
		However, before Inanna had begun her journey, she had instructed her messenger, Ninshubur, that if she did not return within 3 days and 3 nights, to seek help for that would mean she was dead.
		Inanna refused to allow the demons to take anyone who had wept for her during her confinement as a replacement.
	www.deliriumsrealm.com /delirium/mythology/ishtar.asp (1548 words)

	Descent into the Underworld
		Inanna is about to ascend from the underworld when the Annuna seize her and tell her she must provide someone in her place.
		Inanna had initially prepared for her descent by giving up her worldly possessions and status, but this was not enough.
		Dark of the Moon” period -- Inanna was considered to be the “first daughter of the moon”), Ninshubur sets up a public lament, beating the drum, circling the temples, tearing at her eyes, mouth, and thighs, and dressing in sackcloth (a symbol of mourning).
	www.halexandria.org /dward385.htm (5991 words)

	Inanna's Descent to the Underworld by Johanna Stuckey
		Inanna's Descent to the Underworld by Johanna Stuckey
		Inanna refused to give them several faithful servants, but she surrendered her bridegroom Dumuzi because he was not in mourning for her.
		Inanna's standards ("gateposts") that frame the image suggest that the event is happening inside her temple grounds.
	www.matrifocus.com /BEL05/spotlight.htm (2294 words)

	Table of Contents and Excerpt, Meador, Inanna, Lady of Largest Heart
		Later I found poems to Inanna, which made it clear that palm fronds signified the nourishing date palms gatherers offered to Inanna in her role as goddess of the abundant harvest.
		Enheduanna was lifting Inanna out of her established place in Sumerian culture, where she was already considered to be an important goddess, in order to place her above all other deities.
		Inanna's devotees, her "warrior women," "do common work in devotion to you / whose hands sear them with purifying fire." Personal integration based on an embrace of the whole of reality is a searing purification that demands sincere devotion.
	www.utexas.edu /utpress/excerpts/exmeaina.html (2253 words)

	Inanna
		May Inanna lend us graces, as we sing to Her tonight May the hymns come to life to ensoul our hearts And may they again become a living force to grow and transform.
		Narrator: As Inanna ascended from the underworld The galla, demons clung to her One walking in front, the other walking behind Ever watchful for a replacement for the Goddess in sight.
		Inanna fastened on him the eye of death And spoke the word of wrath and pain: Inanna: 'Take the one who didn't grieve for me, take him, take Dumuzi away!' Narrator: The galla didn't wait or hesitate, and took Dumuzi from the Goddess' sight away.
	www.angelfire.com /tx/gatestobabylon/ts94.html (2254 words)

	Inanna (Mesopotamian goddess)
		Ereshkigal had Inanna embarrass herself by having her leave an article of clothing at each of the nine gates of the underworld.
		Inanna's bailiff slaughtered and tortured Wintergarden's family by most horrible means (ever read Ellis' work?), while Jack himself was forced to watch.
		ISHTAR; to the Sumerian INANNA; to the Egyptians, ASTARTE The greatest of all the mother goddesses of the Mesopotamians.
	www.marvunapp.com /Appendix/inanna.htm (2528 words)

	Inanna
		Inanna is the subject of one of the most evocative stories surviving from Sumer, the Descent of Inanna to the Underworld (the third part of the Inanna Cycle).
		Inanna "turns the eye of death on him" and he is dragged off to the underworld, where he now spends every winter.
		Inanna and Dumuzi are associated with light and with the cycle of the seasons.
	templezagduku.org /inanna.html (391 words)

	Near-East Goddesses Realm Inanna and Ishtar
		She was worshiped especially at Nippur and Shuruppak and was the mother of the moon god, Sin (Sumerian: Nanna).
		In Assyrian documents Belit is sometimes identified with Ishtar (Sumerian: Inanna) of Nineveh and sometimes made the wife of either Ashur, the national god of Assyria, or of Enlil (Bel), god of the atmosphere.
		The Sumerian Ninlil was a grain goddess, known as the Varicoloured Ear (of barley).
	inanna.virtualave.net /neareast.html (1611 words)

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		The original Dance of the Seven Veils was Inannaís descent into the Underworld, her sister Ereshkigalís realm, where she was gradually stripped naked as she passed through the seven gates.
		Inanna's time in the Underworld is a myth of the lunar cycle, Damuzi's a myth of the seasons.
		Inanna is a femme fatale whose lovers always seem to come to grief.
	www.open-sesame.com /Inanna.html (618 words)

	inanna
		Inanna was the queen of seven temples throughout Sumer.
		Indeed, Inanna is herself the Goddess of Love, and it is this aspect and power -- creativity, procreativity, raw sexual energy and passion -- that generates the energy of the universe.
		Inanna was Queen of Heaven and Earth, but she knew nothing of the underworld.
	www.bsu.edu /classes/magrath/205resources/inanna.html (2001 words)

	Inanna (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Hymn to Inanna, C. The Sumerian hymns to Inanna are among the earliest writing to be found.
		The stories of this Queen of Heaven and Earth are rich in poetry and meaning, telling of her journey to the underworld and her return after that trial.
		At each of the seven gates to the underworld, Inanna had to surrender some part of what she thought made up herself: wealth, power, tributes.
	www.lunaea.com /goddess/wisdom/inanna.html (167 words)

	INANNA DEFEATS ENKIITES; NINURTA, NOT MARDUK TO NEXT RULE EARTH
		Inanna thought she, as widow of Nergal's brother Dumuzi, should rule in Africa.
		Inanna and hung her on a stake to die.
		On foot, Inanna, Ishkur and Ninurta cornered Marduk in one of the pyramid's air-tight chambers.
	www.enkispeaks.com /Essays/28EreshkigalKillsEnkiRevivesInanna.htm (1104 words)

	Inanna's Revenge - Whitley Hodges - Adobe Reader PDF eBook
		INANNA'S REVENGE is an erotic and complex satirical fantasy which, if made into a movie, would have a PG-17 or R rating.
		Inanna, Goddess of Heaven and Love, returns to Earth as a modern woman, takes a North Carolina lawyer as her consort, and has him prosecute a trial before the Grand Assembly of Annunaki.
		Inanna argues man has excessive testosterone, world religions have become too male-dominated, and that women have been wrongfully oppressed by priests.
	www.ebookmall.com /ebook/65594-ebook.htm (793 words)

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		She was known as Inanna in southern Sumer and in the North she manifested
		The High Priestess, acting for Inanna, is speaking to Dumuzi the new king.
		Inanna and Ishtar, as were certain constellations, such as Virgo and Scorpio.
	www.pinn.net /~swampy/inanna1.html (2015 words)

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