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Author : Diane Wolkstein
Release : 1983-08-03
Genre : Religion
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Book Rating : 548/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Inanna by : Diane Wolkstein
Download or read book Inanna written by Diane Wolkstein. This book was released on 1983-08-03. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fresh retelling of the ancient texts about Ishtar, the world's first goddess. Illustrated with visual artifacts of the period. "A great masterpiece of universal literature."--Mircea Eliade
Author : V. S. Ferguson
Release : 1995-01-01
Genre : Science fiction
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Book Rating : 618/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Inanna Returns by : V. S. Ferguson
Download or read book Inanna Returns written by V. S. Ferguson. This book was released on 1995-01-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Enheduanna
Release : 2000
Genre : Religion
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Book Rating : 429/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Inanna, Lady of Largest Heart by : Enheduanna
Download or read book Inanna, Lady of Largest Heart written by Enheduanna. This book was released on 2000. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Around 2,300 BC Enheduanna was high priestess to the moon god Nanna at his temple in Ur, a position she held for almost forty years. This volume translates Enheduanna's three devotional poems to the goddess Inanna accompanied by an extensive commentary and discussion which places these highly personal and unique expressions within the context of Sumerian culture and religion. The author highlights the importance of the poems and the princess for our understanding of the place of women in Near Eastern society and religion.
Author : V. S. Ferguson
Release : 1996
Genre : Human-alien encounters
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Book Rating : 632/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Inanna Hyper-luminal by : V. S. Ferguson
Download or read book Inanna Hyper-luminal written by V. S. Ferguson. This book was released on 1996. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sandra Bart Heimann
Release : 2016-09-29
Genre : Social Science
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Book Rating : 236/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Biography of Goddess Inanna; Indomitable Queen of Heaven, Earth and Almost Everything by : Sandra Bart Heimann
Download or read book The Biography of Goddess Inanna; Indomitable Queen of Heaven, Earth and Almost Everything written by Sandra Bart Heimann. This book was released on 2016-09-29. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When stars were many and people few, a great story was told everywhere. The first storytellers were women. Their story was so large it filled the universe it told of a Great Mother encompassing life, death and return of everything. When Neolithic farming people settled, and depended on plentiful crops and herds, a goddess of fertility stepped into stardom. Inanna is the Sumerian goddess of love, crescent moon, evening star, fertility and renewal. She is the longest lasting supreme goddess of the Ancient Near East. Inannas biography includes her rise to supreme holder of almost all the powers of culture and civilization. 5000 year old poems bring Inanna to life. She sings to her miraculous vulva and to her consort-lover; she struggles to keep her powers and complains of her losses and demotions. Inanna represents lifes powerful contradictions. She changes peace to war and back again; she causes strife and brings love; she turns women into men and men into women. Inanna loves all her people, every one. A biography must have adversity and Inanna has plenty; she must always conquer of the ever-rising tide of patriarchal domination in all its forms. Buried and forgotten for two millennia, she now steps from the dust, ties up her sandals, applies her kohl, adjusts her tiara, summons her lions, and returns. Her story is also womans story. Let me introduce you to Inanna, Queen of Heaven, Earth, and almost everything
