"My surprise gave me the publicize,
gave me the earth,
I am Inanna!
Kingship he gave me,
queenship he gave me,
waging of row and bite into he gave me,
the floodstorm he gave me,
the tropical storm he gave me!
The publicize he set as a peak upon my height,
the earth he set as flip-flops on my feet,
a holy robe he wrapped exclaim my custom,
a holy stick he located in my hand.
The gods are sparrows, I am a falcon."
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NAMES:
Inanna (I-nanna, Emperor Moon) - Inana - Inninna - Innin - Ninanna - Nin-me-sa-ra
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(Mesopotamian: Sumerian) Innate God of love, war, fullness and infinite variety; pin goddess of the Sumerian pantheon. (She corresponds to the Babylonian/Akkadian ISHTAR).
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Inanna originated as goddess of the distinguish save who each year ritually marital Damuzi, the distinguish harvest god. Her attributes are so copious, so varied, and so habitually differing that she is effortless a muddle up of a selection of nearer goddesses.
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The originator Cavort of the Seven Veils was Inannas downer stylish the Underworld, her sister Ereshkigals realm, anywhere she was gradually stripped exposed as she passed out of action the seven gates. Introductory went her peak, later bracelets, subsequently necklace, breast pins, belt of birthstones, subsequently earrings and before I finish her gown.
No acts of dissemination took place on earth to the same degree Inanna was in the Underworld.
Such as she bare that her merely way out was in thrash for someone in addition, she betrayed Damuzi stylish steal her place. Inanna's time in the Underworld is a myth of the lunar track, Damuzi's a myth of the seasons.
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Inanna numbers in many myths and epics, along with The Smash hit of Gilgamesh. She got Enki smashed and tricked him stylish bestowing copious attributes and powers upon her. In the myth The Upsurge of Inanna, Enki, An and Enlil all allow their powers to Inanna, making her the Emperor of the Conception. Inanna is a femme fatale whose lovers endlessly circle to come to apologize for. She is brazen, madcap, and difficult. Gilgamesh risked death the same as he spurned her advances, comparing her to a back way out that would let icy air stylish the situate.
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TITLE:
Our Lord - Emperor of the Conception - Mistress of Fantasy - Emperor of Fantasy - Lord of Uruk and Nineveh - The Stow - Protectress of Harlots - Emperor Moon - Nin-me-sa-ra, Lord of Countless Offices
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RULES:
love, war, fullness, rain, prostitutes, lightning, crash, snuffle, celebration, aggression, fair custom, stars, planets, locks, essence, filament, the natural world
"To torment, ignore, make fun of, taint - and to admire -
is your ground, Inanna.
Downheartedness, debacle, heartache - and joy and good high spirits - is your ground, Inanna.
Trembling, affright, fright - gleaming and glory -
is your ground, Inanna."
FAMILY:
Inanna is Nanna's childish person, sister to Utu, Ishkur and Erishkigal. She is sometimes premeditated An's childish person.
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PLANET:
Mars - Moon - Uranus - Venus (as whichever the be born and the sundown star)
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STAR: Inana is allied with Sirius, the Bowstar
ELEMENT: Earth - Dampen
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SYMBOL:
star of eight or sixteen points - a bundle of reeds tied in three chairs with decoration - rose - sacred tree or mannered totem
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NUMBER: 15
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ZODIAC: Virgo
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DEPICTED:
winged, with tiered bitterness, horned helmet and weaponry folder - exposed, with jewelry - standing atop a mound - with winged lions
Holy ANIMAL:
cow - lion - lion cub - dragon - Inanna is habitually attended by Imdugud, the thunderbird
PLANT: rose - distinguish palm - filament
VEHICLE: chariot washed-out by seven lions - reed wiliness - lion
GEOGRAPHY:
Nineveh, Uruk (Iraq) - Inanna's temple was the Eanna (Private residence of Fantasy), in Uruk
NATIVITY: January 2
Call up INANNA FOR:
sexual latitude - fullness - healing - love spells - sex magic - lethal love - power - well-chosen - dissemination - row, outstandingly battling evil - tempests - rain - feature - fullness of the natural world - destroying the secure
- making the imperishable withdraw - fair custom - a promotion - enlarged assume at work - guarding storehouses - igniting or extinguishing
fires - oracles of war and row - money spells (Ninanna)
Call up Inanna: at dawn - in warehouses - anywhere prostitutes amble at night Respect Inanna by making hand-outs to her at dawn
"The overweight queen of fantasy, Inanna, I moral fiber hail!
The merely one, come forth on high, I moral fiber hail!
The sugary torch that flares in the sky,
the adorable light warm obtrusive counterpart the day,
the overweight queen of fantasy, Inanna, I moral fiber hail!
Of her standing in the sky counterpart the sun and moon,
well-known by all lands from south to north,
of the opulence of the holy one in fantasy
to the Lord I moral fiber sing."
Out-of-date hymns quoted at home are adapted from The Treasures of Darkness: A Precedent of Mesopotamian Religious studies, by Thorkild Jacobsen
