Inanna, lady of heaven and earth : history of a Sumerian goddess

Inanna Was The Great Goddess Of The Sumerians, A People Who Lived 5000 Year Ago In The Place We Know Today As Iraq Where Was Created The First Urban Civilization In Human History. Inanna, The Goddess Of Sexual Love And Connected With The Planet Venus Was Responsible For The Fertility Of The Land And The Later Goddesses, The Greek Aphrodite And The Roman Venus Adopted Many Aspects Of Inanna. The Kings Worshipped Inanna And Celebrated With Her The Sacred Marriage Rite, But They Also Needed Her Help During The Many Wars They Were Waging, Which Gave Inanna The Aspects Of A Warrior Goddess.0the Sumerians Wrote Their Texts On Clay Tablets That Once Dried Could Be Preserved Until Our Own Day And Thanks To This Miraculous Piece Of Luck We Can Cognizance Of A Number Of Magnificent Hymns And Myths Written About Inanna. These Archaic Texts Call Up Human Emotions That Find An Answering Response In The Hearts Of People Today And Are Still Capable Of Moving Us Deeply. In This Book The Myths Are Told Against The Back Ground Of Sumerian Civilization And Various Aspects Of Society From This Time Are Also Discussed, Such As Convent Life, Divine Kingship And Funeral Rites. One Aspect Of The Funeral Rites Was The Great Wailing, A Rite In Which Inanna Had An Important Role And Which Appears To Have Been Performed In Many Countries Around The Mediterranean In The Bronze Age And Has Left Traces Even In The Old And New Testament.0henriette Broekema's Book Makes The Complex Character And History Of Goddess Inanna Accessible To The Ordinary Reader And Based On The Texts From That Time, In Twenty Six Richly Illustrated Chapters, She Succeeds In Bringing The Astonishing World Of The Goddess Inanna To Life. Cover Inanna, Lady of Heaven and Title My lady, on your acquiring Plan of Copyright Contents Preface TIME TABLE Glossary A short elucidation on the Chapter 1 The Sumerians Chapter 2 Goddess Inanna Chapter 3 Who was Inanna’s lover? Chapter 4 The Temple Chapter 5 The Temples of Inanna and Ištar in Mari Chapter 6 The Secrets of the Royal Graves of Ur (I) Chapter 7 The secrets of the Royal Graves of Ur (II): a Temple of Inanna? Chapter 8 Inanna supports the Kings of Akkad Chapter 9 Enheduanna’s Hymns to Inanna Chapter 10 The Appearance of an En priestess Chapter 11 The En Priestesses of Ur and the Cloister Women of Sippar Chapter 12 The Moon-God of Ur Chapter 13 Inanna as Venusstar Chapter 14 The Love Lyrics of Inanna and Dumuzi Chapter 15 The Death of Dumuzi Chapter 16 Neo-Sumerian Kings make Love to Inanna Chapter 17 The King on the Throne and the Divine Oracle Chapter 18 Sacred Marriage Chapter 19 The Song of Songs: Traces of Inanna in the Old Testament? Chapter 20 Tempe Prostitution? Ada Taggar-Cohen recently published a Chapter 21 The Magic of Eroticism Chapter 22 Inanna’s Descent to the Underworld (I) Chapter 23 Inanna’s Descent to the Underworld (II): Funeral rites The myth relates how Adonis Chapter 24 Kurgarra, galatura and assinnu Chapter 25 Who is the Goddess on the Burney Relief? Chapter 26 The Taming of the Shrew Bibliography Herodotos, Further Reading