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Descent of Inanna- English 120
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The Descent of Inanna
Kelly Oestreich, Shannon Joyce,
Catherine Bopp, Michael Tellman
Inanna
The most prominent female deity in ancient Mesopotamia
Quote
She was the goddess of
-Grains
-Fertility
-Order
-War
-Love
-Heaven and Earth
-Healing
-Emotions
-“Lady of Myriad Offices”.
Line 200
"You will go to the underworld
Half the year.
Your sister, since she has asked,
WIll go the other half.
On the day you are called,
That day you will be taken.
On the day Geshtinanna is called,
That day you will be set free."
Tigris and Euphrates River
~Fertility of the land
Story Summary
Seasonal
Yearly reenactment to ensure good crops
-Inanna decided to go to the underworld to mourn her sister's husband's death
- She prepared herself
-Instructions to servant Ninshubur
-Entrance of the underworld through seven gates
-Gods of the Underworld judge and make her a corpse
-Ninshubur followed her instructions
-Father's Rescue
-Made a deal with the judges
-Dumuzi and his sister
- oral tradition organized by kings and put on by priests
- cycle of the crops depends on Inanna's decent and return
- Dumuzi is in underworld- winter
- human fertility matches with land
Numerology
3 days and 3 nights- Inanna hung on the hook as a corpse, Jonah and the Whale, Christ's Resurrection
Repetition
-The repetition suggest that previous oral versions must have existed
-Words and sentence structure is repeated
-Slow, hypnotic repetition
-Transports the reader into a timeless realm of the gods, the soul, and the origins of life
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photo credit Nasa / Goddard Space Flight Center / Reto Stöckli