Penglase, Charles 1994 , , New York City, New York: Routledge,• The method that the British were comfortable with was excavating tunnels and deep trenches, which was damaging the mud brick architecture of the foundation | This list probably reflects the report of contributions to Inanna at Uruk from cities supporting her cult |
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In the myth of her descent into the underworld, Inanna addresses , the queen of the underworld, as her "older sister", but the two goddesses almost never appear together in Sumerian literature and weren't placed in the same category in god lists | Wiggins this theory was baseless, as the sole piece of evidence that they were ever conflated or even just confused with each other was the fact Ishtar and Ashratu shared an epithet - however the same epithet was also applied to , , , and , and no further evidence can be found in sources such as god lists |
Katz also notes that the Sumerian version of the myth is not concerned with matters of fertility, and points out any references to it eg.
18She is courted by a farmer named and a shepherd named | When the goddess wakes up and realizes she has been violated, she becomes furious and determines to bring her attacker to justice |
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Some modern researchers use the term Ishtar-type to define specific figures of this variety | The Processional Way, which has been traced to a length of over half a mile, extended north from the Ishtar Gate and was designed with brick relief images of lions, the symbol of the goddess Ishtar also known as Inanna the war goddess, the dragon of Marduk, the lord of the gods, and the bull of Adad, the storm god |
In another text Ninshubur is listed even before , originally a hyposthasis of Inanna herself, in a list of deities from her entourage.
11you, Because you did not bring your nose close to the ground, Because you did not press your lips in the dust | The original structure was a double gate with a smaller frontal gate and a larger and more grandiose secondary posterior section |
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, "King by love of Inana" | Sumerian mythology [ ] Origin myths [ ] The poem of Enki and the World Order begins by describing the god and his establishment of the cosmic organization of the universe |
She then releases a series of storms and closes all roads to the city, but is still unable to find Shukaletuda, so she asks to help her find him, threatening to leave her temple in if he does not.