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Inanna

majorattested3rd millennium BCEMesopotamian religion

Sumerian goddess of love, war and the heavens.

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✦Signature powerThe DescentPasses through the seven gates of death and returns.

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Its universe

The mythic order Inanna belongs to, who comes before and after in the story of this world.

An, father of the gods

The same idol, across the ages

Scholars have long read Inanna as one face of a wider figure that recurs under many names through history: the dies & rises.

3000 BCEInannaMesopotamian religion 2500 BCEOsiris 13 CEJesusChristianity

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Voices & connections

Figures bound to Inanna, family and rivals within the myth, and the thinkers and writers who shaped how we know them.

Gilgameshenemy of Dumuzimarried to Ereshkigalsibling of The Divine Feminine (Wisdom)associated with The Descent (Katabasis)associated with Enkially of Ninshuburally of

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Illustrated chapters where Inanna appears. Start reading in a click.

Illustrated storyGilgamesh, Who Saw the DeepThe oldest epic on earth: a tyrant king is given a wild man for a friend, loses him to the one enemy no king can fight, and walks off the edge of the world to un-learn death. The Flood survivor tells him the truth, a snake steals the consolation prize, and he comes home to the wall of Uruk with empty hands and the story itself, which turned out to be the immortality.Begin reading →Illustrated storyThe Descent of InannaThe oldest descent story ever written, four thousand years old: Inanna, Queen of Heaven, turns her ear to the Great Below and walks through the seven gates of the dead. At each gate a garment of her power is stripped away, until she stands naked before her sister Ereshkigal, and is hung on a hook. Her rescue costs a head for a head, and her eye falls on the consort who did not mourn her.Begin reading →