ISHTAR INANNA
- ParrisVstefanow
- Mar 14
- 44 min read
Inanna - Ishtar - Ishtar; It is notable that Inanna and Ishtar could be different Goddesses
The daughter of Nanna and Ningal
She is Anu's second consort but she was also the lover of Enki, Dumuzid and many other Gods and Demi Gods.
Inanna is one of the most important goddesses of the Sumerian pantheon in ancient Mesopotamia. She is a goddess of love, fertility, and war.
A woman planted the huluppu tree in Inanna's garden, but the Imdugud-bird (Anzu bird?) made a nest for its young there, Lilith (or her predecessor, a lilitu-demon) made a house in its trunk, and a serpent made a home in its roots. Inanna appeals to Utu about her unwelcome guests, but he is unsympathetic.
She appeals to Gilgamesh and he is receptive. He tears down the tree and makes it into a throne and bed for her. In return for the favor, Inanna manufactures a pukku and mikku for him. Later, Inanna seeks out Gilgamesh as her lover. When he spurns her she sends the Bull of Heaven (Gugulana) to terrorize his city of Unug (Uruk, Erech).
Inanna figures prominently in various myths, such as 'Inanna's descent to the underworld', Inanna and Bilulu, Inanna and Ebih, Inanna and Shu-kale-tuda and many others.
Inanna also visits Kur (Africa). She sets out to witness the funeral rites of her sister-in-law Ereshkigal's husband Gugulanna, the Bull of Heaven.
She takes precaution before setting out, by telling her servant Nin-Shubur to seek assistance from Enlil, Nanna, or Enki at their shrines, should she not return. Inanna knocks on the outer gates of Kur and the gatekeeper, Neti, questions her. He consults with queen Ereshkigal and then allows Inanna to pass through the seven gates of the underworld.
After each gate, she is required to remove adornments and articles of clothing, until after the seventh gate, she is naked. The Anunna pass judgment against her and Ereshkigal killed her and hung her on the wall. Inanna is rescued by the intervention of Enki. He creates two sexless creatures that empathize with Ereshkigal's suffering, and thereby gain a gift - Inanna's corpse.
They restore her to life with the Bread of Life and the Water of Life, but the Sumerian underworld has a conservation of death law. No one can leave without providing someone to stay in their stead. Inanna is escorted by galla/demons past Nin-Shubur and members of her family.
She doesn't allow them to claim anyone until she sees Dumuzi on his throne in Uruk. They then seize Dumuzi, but he escapes them twice by transforming himself, with the aid of Utu. Eventually he is caught and slain. Inanna spies Geshtinanna, in mourning and they go to Dumuzi.
She allows Dumuzi, the shepherd, to stay in the underworld only six months of the year, while Geshtinanna will stay the other six. As with the Greek story of the kidnapping of Persephone, this linked the changing seasons, the emergence of the plants from the ground, with the return of a harvest deity from the nether world.
Inanna was the same as the Biblical Goddess Astharoth or Astarte.
We've been saying for years that it was just a matter of time before the Babylonian chief goddess Ishtar;
....... (a.k.a. Inanna in Babylon, Isis in Eygypt, Astarte or Aphrodite in Greece and Libertas/Venus in Rome to name just a few)
....... would once again rise to prominence in world affairs not merely in a mystical manner but in a bold, in-your-face resurgence of Ishtar’s many "mystical" doctrines.
Now we see more instances of her return in human society as her doctrines take a subtle hold within both Protestant and Catholic churches in the USA.
Such developments further fuel the cosmic rebellion against the Creator-Ruler of the Universe.
Sacred Prostitution - The Whore and the Holy One
“Once upon a time, so long ago that we only have fragments of Sumerian and Babylonian tablets, myths and our own dreams to tell us this story, the assertion "I am the whore and the holy one" would not have been a paradox at all.
In ancient Sumer and Babylon, temple priestess/prostitutes of the goddess received the god-bearing stranger.
Their sexual union was, for both participants, communion with the divine.”
“Over time the enactment of the king’s symbolic marriage with the goddess probably became mere form and finally obsolete as Babylon and other societies became more stratified and war-like.
Then military might, instead of mystical union with the goddess, conferred legitimacy on a ruler.
In Babylon there was also a hierarchy of prostitutes from the high-ranking temple priestesses, the entu and naditu, to the tavern or street whore called harimtu.
It’s worth noting that in Babylonian religious texts, the goddess Ishtar identifies herself with the lower ranks of the street prostitutes, saying "When I sit in the entrance of a tavern, I, Ishtar, am a loving harimtu."
In another Babylonian text Ishtar proclaims, "A prostitute compassionate am I."
“There are many theories about what might have caused the near total-eclipse of goddess worship(at least in the Western world) and I don’t want to address them today.
I just want to observe that she (whoever, whatever she is) seems to be re-emerging…”
So there you have it, a devotee of Ishtar if not a priestess of Ishtar notes that Ishtar worship seems to be “re-emerging.”
Below is perhaps one of the earliest pieces of money ever found. Ishtar's religion invented the concept of money, as a coin-related economy that centered around Ishtar temple worship.
The origin of money was developed in order to support the worship of Ishtar by providing a way for assets to be garnered to cover the expenses of maintaining the temple and its priestesses and priests.
Lilith, “she of the night” or “the howler”, said to be Adam’s first mate, had wings;
....... [symbolic of an ability to fly - in a craft as the Anunnaki were able to do]
....... and was always portrayed with owls [described earlier in this volume as one of the chief symbols of the Illuminati and the reptilian bloodlines].
Lilith was said to have left Adam because he tried to dominate her [now there’s an archetype for you]. In all likelihood, she too was one of Enki’s experiments in genetic mixing.
The Black Madonna has her roots in this pre-patriarchal first partner of Adam, Lilith.
She thus represents the strength and equality of womanhood - a proud, forthright, and commanding figure, as opposed to the strictly subordinate image of the conventional White Madonna as seen in church representations of Jesus’ mother.
It was said that Lilith knew the secret name of God [a secret held also by Mary Magdalene, ‘the woman who knew the All’] - in this case it would have been Lucifer’s original name Be’el-zebub.
She is black because in gnostic thought Wisdom (Sophia), is black, having existed in the darkness of Chaos before the Creation.
In ancient Sumer, the key females of the royal succession were all venerated as lilies, having such names as Lili, Luluwa, Lilith, Lilutu and Lillette.
The fleur-de-lis [the emblem of the House of Anjou, Catherine de Medici’s son]
....... was introduced in the late 5th century to denote the royal bloodline of France, later included in the Royal House of Scots along with the Davidic Lion of Judah and the Desposynic Unicorn.
The Christine Unicorn, believed to be the only thing that could purify the false doctrines that flowed from the Roman Church, is often shown being chased, imprisoned, persecuted, or at least chained by one leg, often as a direct replication of Jesus.
While we may speak of Lilith as one of this being’s incarnations, it would be more correct to say that is the name she was given in her role as Adam’s first partner.
Prior to this role we often know her by two other famous names as well, Inanna and Ishtar, here described in one of Sitchin’s earlier works:
“Some of the principal deities, members of the sacred circle of Twelve, were themselves in a way Earthlings:
Nanar/Sin and Ishkur/Adad, Enlil’s younger sons, were born on Earth; so were of course Sin’s twin children, Utu/Shamash and Inanna/Ishtar.”
Inanna speaks of her role through Barbara Clow:
“I was the first Nibiruan female to give birth to the child of an Earth father. In fact, at the time this was the only way to ensure that the children of Nibiru would remain on Earth.
Their Earth fathers would force them to remain and build families.
Unfortunately, though, this need also created the patriarchy. And the patriarchy would later destroy the very Goddess culture that had created it.”
Her subsequent role as ‘shepherdess’ to her children here on Earth is further explained in the ancient Sumerian Tale of Etana where Etana, the “strongman,”;
....... was selected for the position of king after “Ishtar was looking for a shepherd and searching high and low for a king” in the rebuilding process after the Flood.
The one who was chosen "Shepherd" king was awarded the tools that would allow them to keep in contact with their masters the gods in the 4th dimension;
....... the orb, the scepter, the crown, even the throne itself - all the trappings of royalty, all made of gold and all inlaid with precious and semi-precious stones such as diamonds and emeralds;
....... (such as the gods spoke through in an earlier chapter to lead their people), and lapis lazuli (the 4th dimensional stone)
....... all of which acted as crystal receivers for the god’s commands from the higher dimension;
....... as well as transmitters of the king’s thoughts and those of his surrounding subjects in return.
Inana/Ishtar was also called Luluwa, described as “a pure-bred Anunnaki princess,” in the role of also being Cain’s ‘wife’.
This answers one of the greatest problems with the Biblical account of Adam, that is if Adam and Eve were the first man and woman, and Cain and Abel their first two sons, who was it then that Cain married to sire his children?
Although not giving the name of Cain’s wife, the Bible does name their younger son Enoch (Henôch), while the Sumerian records cite his elder son and kingly successor Atûn, who is perhaps better known as King Etâna of Kish.
So, just as St. Paul came back to repeat his performance in a later life as Brigham Young to help control the religious aspects of control over the people, so too did the Anunnaki birth-goddess, Lilith keep on returning to help integrate the Anunnaki bloodline with that of the royal bloodline of Jesus-Lucifer.
In this regard one might think of he as indeed the ‘shepherdess’ of the bloodline, but a little more still in being ‘mother’ to the race of human slaves as it were. While not happy with her ‘husband’ Adam, she did make a fertile producer of a race of Anunnaki/human children.
MARI
Ptah’s distinctive outfit and accoutrements, including the All, is matched by another key ancient figure, the goddess Mari, another name for Isis.
In 1933, French archaeologists digging at Mari on the Euphrates river in Syria made an astonishing discovery. Excavations led by Walter Andrae from 1903 to 1914 uncovered remains of the temple palace complex of Ishtar at Mari.1
This complex had a ziggurat (click below image), temples of Ishtar, Ninharsag, Shamas (‘sun’) and Dagan (‘fish’), and a royal palace spread over six acres. The palace contained nearly 300 rooms, many of which housed palace administrators and thousands of diplomatic and administrative records.
Mari was home to the goddess Mari, “Mother Love,” or the Queen of Heaven. This goddess was continually worshipped for over three thousand years (c. 3500 - 500 BC) in the ancient Near East. She was one of the three great goddesses of the Bronze Age, the others being Isis of Egypt and Cybele or Sabael of Anatolia, the Great Mother of the Gods from Ida.
All three were incarnations of the Great Mother, the Lady of Life. Among her many names were Ishtar, Inanna, Astarte, Ma, Astoreth, the goddess worshipped by King Solomon.
THE CITY OF LOVE
Mari’s Amor-ite city or ‘City of Love’ of Mari was considered as one of the wonders of the ancient world.2 It was the Holy Land or power center until it was conquered by the armies of Hammurabi in 1700 BC.
The people of Mari believed that the universe was the property of a large pantheon of gods and goddesses who were human in form, but superhuman in their powers. They believed the goddess Mari lived in her temple on Earth.
Among the numerous wall paintings and sculptures uncovered at Mari in Syria archaeologists discovered the jaw dropping 4,000 year-old three-dimensional, life-size statue of the goddess Mari below.
Called simply The Goddess with a Vase, in this statue Mari is wearing a coat, a hat and other garments. She holds a water jar in her hands.
Mari full-length coat is blue, the color of the sea. It is called the PALA garment or ‘ruler’s garment’. The component PALA is key. It is the root for palladium, Pala-to, palace and paladin, the name given to the knights of the Grail in medieval chivalry.
Mari has a cluster of blue stones (apples?) gathered around her neck and throat area.
The ‘hat’ is no ordinary helmet. It is called the Shugurra helmet. Whenever attempting to understand or explain The Goddess with a Vase statue, I turn to (and embellish on) Sumerian scholar and linguist Zecharia Sitchin.
In his seven books he re-interprets the Sumerian myths. Shugurra, he says, translates as “that which makes go far into the universe.” 3
What kind of a helmet or thinking cap is this?
Two straps run out of the TET, a box of rectangular shape on the back of Mari’s neck, and run across her chest.
The box is joined to her helmet, the Shugurra, by another strap. This box is apparently quite heavy, as evidenced by the straps.
A hose is connected to the base of the box by a circular clasp or buckle. Two identical ‘stones’ adorn her shoulders.
The TET corresponds with the Menat worn by Ptah on the back of his head and with the TET pillar that is part of the All.
These accoutrements underlined that this goddess was the Queen of Mari.
According to Sitchin, no one has been able to explain the nature of Mari’s strange ensemble of coat, hat and other garments.
It is too bizarre to think of it as some form of ancient virtual reality system that assists one in transforming themselves in order to go far into the universe.
But what if that is what it is? What is this ensemble doing on the body of a 4,000-year-old statue?
Apart from these sensational questions, the question that is most integral to our search concerns what Mari did once she donned this outfit.
THE SHEEPFOLD - THE VESSEL OF CREATION
Among Mari’s many titles she was known as Ma-Ya, ‘the Lady of Life’, or Ma .
Her temple/womb/sheepfold was considered the vessel of Creation.
With her Shugurra helmet snuggly fitting her head, Mari goes to her sheepfold, which is the center of nature of Sumer (or Su-Meru).
Leaning against a fruit tree, she rejoices in her own natural powers --her wondrous vulva.
Within this temple emerged Mari’s son who was named ‘Lord of the Sheephold’, ‘the Shepherd’, ‘Lord of the Net’, and ‘Lord of Life’.
According to Sumerian legend, in a night of wild drink and sex, Inanna/Mari, a cunning and ruthless beauty, seduced the god E.A and made off with his prized Key of Life, as well as the divine ME-tablets, the divine formulas which were the basis for high civilization.
That night she also conceived a son, Thoth.
Mari’s name anticipates the Virgin Mary by 3,000 years. Both women had a son who died a violent, sacrificial death. Mari’s titles ‘Light of the World’, ‘Morning and Evening Star’, ‘Righteous Judge’, ‘Forgiver of Sins’, and ‘Holy Shepherdess’ were later given to Mary’s son, Jesus.
Jesus said he had many sheepfolds. Among the beautiful treasures that were discovered at Mari were stone molds for cakes found in the kitchen of the palace in the shape of the Goddess’ body.
The cakes eaten by the worshippers of the Queen, says scholars,8 may have been a precursor of the Christian Eucharist the bread and water used at the Last Supper.
The similarity between Mari’s son and Jesus are striking. Raised by priestesses in the Vessel of Creation, the half-human, half-divine son, who was called the Lord of the Net;
....... appears to have been privileged to learn the secrets of the universe, including those of the Key of Life.
In Matthew Jesus states the Kingdom of Heaven is a Net.
When he appears to John he is wearing the attire of the goddess including a floor-length garment and helmet white as wool.
He also wields Key of Life in the form of the seven stars that he holds in his hand.
The creation of Mari’s son is also equivalent to the story of the creation of the Adam in the Hebrew story.
The Sumerians are considered by many Old Testament scholars to have been the original authors of the creation myth as found in the Book of Genesis.
The tale of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, particularly the Tree of Life incident, is also of Sumerian origin.
According to Sumerian myth, Mari/Inanna rescued the Tree of Life from the world flood and planted it in her garden at Mari. This Tree was an axis connecting the underworld with Earth and the heavens.
Mari seeks to use the wood from the Tree to make a throne and a bed. However, she discovers that the Tree has some unexpected occupants.
A serpent has “made his nest in the tree.” This serpent is not alone. The “anzu bird who set his young on the branches,” also dwells within, as does the “dark-maid Lilith” who built her home in the trunk.
The inhabitants of the Tree, two snakes named Lilith and Samuel --refuse to leave. In temple depictions Mari is pictured holding these two serpents wound around a rod.
Known as the caduceus this symbol was the logo of a priesthood of Therapeutae, or physicians of the soul.
This was also the symbol for her son, “the Lord of the Key of Life.” The figure 8 or the entwined serpents also symbolized him. The Egyptians changed his name to Thoth, but retained his sacred number 8.
The Greeks called Thoth or TAT by the name Hermes (‘stone’).
Spring Equinox - 13 weeks
Minor Sabbath but does require human sacrifice
a. March 21-22
Goddess Ostara (Ishtar, also spelled, "Eostre"), for whom "Easter" is named - March 21 is one of the Illuminati's Human Sacrifice Nights
Easter is a shifting date using the common practice of Astrology; it is celebrated on the first Sunday after the first new moon after Ostara.
This date also has nothing to do with the resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ! Rather, this day in the pagan tradition celebrates the return of Semiramis into her reincarnated form of the Spring Goddess.
The pagans even have an equivalent to our Good Friday! It is "Easter Friday", and has historically been timed to be the third full moon from the start of the year.
Since the marrying of pagan Easter to Jesus' resurrection, Good Friday is permanently fixed on the Friday prior to Easter.
Easter is steeped in the Babylonian Mysteries, the single most evil idolatrous system ever invented by Satan.
All throughout the prophetic Scriptures, we see God declaring His final judgment upon wicked Babylon.
Yet, every year, Christian pastors intone "Easter" as though it were Christian.
Many Independent Baptist preachers have begun referring to this day celebrating Jesus' resurrection as "Resurrection Sunday", in order to separate the day from the pagan celebration.
The Babylonian goddess, Ishtar, is the one for whom Easter is named;
....... ["Pagan Traditions of Holidays", p. 9] in reality, she was Semiramis, wife of Nimrod, and the real founder of the Satanic Babylonian Mysteries.
After Nimrod died, Semiramis created the legend that he was really her Divine Son born to her in a Virgin Birth. She is considered to be the co-founder of all occult religions, along with Nimrod.
Easter - the day of Ishtar - is celebrated widely among various cultures and religions on earth.
1. Babylon - Ishtar (Easter) also called the Moon Goddess
2. Catholics - Virgin Mary (Queen of Heaven)
3. Chinese - Shingmoo
4. Druids - Virgo Paritura
5. Egypt - Isis
6. The Pagan Ephesians - Dianna
7. Etruscans - Nutria
8. Germans (Ancient) - Hertha
9. Greeks - Aphrodite/Ceres
10. India - Isi/Indrani
11. Ancient Jews - Ashtaroth (Queen of Heaven)
12. Krishna - Devaki
13. Rome - Venus/Fortuna
14. Scandinavians - Disa
15. Sumerians - Nana
["America's Occult Holidays", Doc Marquis and Sam Pollard]
The Babylonians celebrated the day as the return of Ishtar (Easter), the goddess of Spring.
This day celebrated the rebirth, or reincarnation, of Nature and the goddess of Nature.
According to Babylonian legend, a huge egg fell from heaven, landing in the Euphrates River.
The goddess, Ishtar (Easter) broke out of this egg. Later, the feature of an egg nesting was introduced, a nest where the egg could incubate until hatched.
A "wicker" or reed basket was conceived in which to place the Ishtar egg.
The Easter Egg Hunt was conceived because, if anyone found her egg while she was being "reborn", she would bestow a blessing upon that lucky person! Because this was a joyous Spring festival, eggs were colored with bright Spring colors.
The Easter Bunny
"The Goddess' totem, the Moon-hare, would lay eggs for good children to eat.
Eostre's hare was the shape that Celts imagined on the surface of the full moon."
["Pagan Traditions of Holidays", p. 10.]
Do not bother to tell me that bunnies do not lay eggs, for I know that; we are dealing with a legend here, and an occult legend at that. These types of legends traditionally play loose and fast with facts.
Thus, "Easter" - Eostre, or Ishtar - was a goddess of fertility.
Since the bunny is a creature that procreates quickly, it symbolized the sexual act;
....... the egg symbolized "birth" and "renewal". Together, the Easter Bunny and Easter Egg symbolizes the sex act and its offspring, Semiramis and Tammuz.
Thus, it is a very serious spiritual matter, indeed, when christian churches incorporate "Resurrection Eggs" as part of their Easter celebration.
At the very least, these churches are confusing the minds of their precious young children, by blurring the dividing line between pagan symbols and their meanings and Christian meanings of Resurrection Day.
Young children who participated in "Resurrection Eggs" in church will be conditioned later in their life to accept the fullness of the pagan tradition revolving around the same symbols.
At worst, a church participating in the pagan Easter tradition by promoting "Resurrection Eggs" and perhaps an Easter Egg Hunt, is guilty of combining Christianity with paganism, the very lethal cocktail the Lord Jesus will always reject.
Remember our key verse:
"Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing"
If your church has "Resurrection Eggs", that is a church you should consider leaving immediately;
....... if the Senior Pastor is Liberal enough to use "Resurrection Eggs" in his Resurrection Day celebrations, he is probably Liberal in Doctrine and Theology, but may not be far enough along for you to see it yet.
There are also some similarities between Lilith and the myths of Innana/Ishtar and Ereshkigal, which reinforces the current theory that Lilith was created after Inanna/Ishtar's darker side.
Lilith
- Demons clung to the left side of Adam when Lilith came from the abyss to join him.
- Lilith began drinking blood after Adam attempted to sexually pressure her.
- Lilith is said to look like a normal woman except with wings.
- Lilith is associated with dragons in the form of Blind Dragon and Leviathan.
- She is called the torturous serpent, implying suffering or vengeance.
- Samael, Lilith's consort is charge over seven heavenly spirits.
- Lilith has an insatiable sexual appetite.
Innana/Ishtar
- Demons clung to Ishtar's left side as she ascended from the Underworld.
- Innana turned water into blood after she was raped, making others drink blood.
- Ishtar's sister, Ereskrigal, has creatures that look human only clothed by wings.
- Ishtar's sister, Ereshkigal, was kidnapped by a dragon named Kur.
- Ereshkigal appears to be torturous in the Underworld.
- Ereshkigal has seven demons that are her throne bearers.
- Ereshkigal also does not have her sexual appetite quenched by Nergal.
Compare also that Istahar is proposed to have turned into the constellation of Draco, a constellation of a dragon.
This coincides with Lilith's association with dragons and serpents, and Ereshkigal's association with dragons by being kidnapped by Kur.
Istahar is also said in other legends to have turned into Virgo, or the Pleiades, being among the constellations the Hebrews describe the "seven stars" in various names, both Pleiades and Draco being among those names to describe the same set of stars.
If Istahar is turned into the Pleiades or Draco, she will then be connected to Lilith and Ereshkigal's draconic paradigm.
However, because other resources point towards Istahar being turned into Virgo;
....... I consider her legend to be dual in nature, both Queen of Heaven and in connection to serpentine energies.
When it comes to Lilith herself, she undoubtedly resembles Innana/Ishtar in her darker moments;
....... (demonic clinging in ascent from Underworld, blood drinking after a rape)
....... reinforcing the theory that Lilith may have been patterned after Innana/Ishtar's dark side.
This also reinforces Lilith's role as "Queen of Hell," and Lilith does share some similarities to Ereshkigal, although, they are mostly symbolic.
Istahar/'Asterah shares with Inanna/Ishtar the concept of a "Queen of Heaven," and admiration.
Ruler of the Sumerian UnderWorldand Most Feared Deity in Mesopotamian Pantheon; Ereshkigal; ....... a granddaughter of Enlil, is the queen of the underworld or Irkalla (the land of the dead).
She is older sister of Inanna (later known as Ishtar) and wife of Nergal, the king of death who brings disease, plague, and all misfortunes caused by heat. Ereshkigal, whose name means "Queen of the Great Below", is very powerful ruler in her kingdom of the dead and her judgment and laws are always indisputable.
Ereshkigal Was Given The Underworld For Her Domain
In Sumerian religion, in the very beginning, the universe was divided into three regions each of which became the domain of a god. Anu, Sky Father, was also "King of the Gods",
"Lord of the Constellations, Spirits and Demons", and "Supreme Ruler of the Kingdom of Heaven", which was his domain.
The earth was given to Enlil. Ea became the ruler of the waters. Together they constituted the triad of the Great Gods.
According to the Epic of Gilgamesh (c.1850 BC), Ereshkigal was,
"given the underworld for her domain" and she became the ruler of the Underworld.
However, in another story (similar to that of Ovid's tale of Hades' and abduction of the goddess Persephone) ....... Ereshkigal is kidnapped by her half-brother, the dragon Kur, and taken to the underworld where she is made queen.
Inanna Descends to Gloomy Kingdom of The Dead
No one could ever question her decisions and those who enter her world can no longer return to the world of the living. The Kingdom of Ereshkigal is a gloomy land of shadows, with no future and no hope. To this abyss of hopelessness are thrown not only sinners but also good and bad, great and small, God-fearing people and blasphemers.
All of them become powerless and pale forever.
The exception is Inanna, the goddess of life and fertility, whose descent to Ereshkigal's underworld is believed to be one of the most known Sumerian myths. Inanna and Ereshkigal have never been good friends. Moreover, Inanna enters the underworld in an unsuccessful attempt to deceitfully take power over the abyss of Ereshkigal.
She is punished by her and killed and her corpse hangs on a hook. It seems that even gods who try to convince Ereshkigal to release Inanna, are powerless to help, because in the underworld, there are rules and principles, which have to be followed.
Finally Ereshkigal gives Inanna's corpse to the gods, and they revive the goddess with water of life and food.
Inanna ascends to the upper world, but must send someone down to take her place in the land of the dead. She decides to send her husband, Dumuzi as the substitution because Dumuzi is the one who has not mourned her death.
Appearance of Ereshkigal is not exactly known.
The Akkadians associated her with their own Semitic underworld goddess, Allatum. There is, however, a rectangular, fired clay relief panel depicting a naked woman standing on two lions and flanked by owls, holding a rod and ring in her hands.
These two symbols are often depicted on Mesopotamian stelas, cylinder seals and reliefs. Whether this panel depicts Inanna or Ereshkigal is still under debate. It has even been proposed that it may represent female demon Lilith.
With few exceptions, Ereshkigal had no cult center in Mesopotamia and as a result, she is only occasionally encountered outside the literature.
Inscriptions confirm that temples dedicated to her existed in:
- Kutha
- Assur
- Umma
Her coalition government with Nergal begins in the old-Babylonian period (1830 - 1531 BC).
During the first millennium BC, Nebuchadnezzar II - a Chaldean king of the Neo-Babylonian Empire, who reigned c. 605 BCE - c. 562 BC - rebuilt her temple in Kutha (Cuthah).
The Anunnaki and Assorted Other Characters
Contrary to popular belief, the Sumerian culture has been known for centuries and did not appear suddenly out of nowhere with the discovery of the cuneiform tablets found at Ur, capitol of Sumeria, for example. If anything, the tablets and others verified what we already knew about Sumeria from its inheritors, the Akkadians and Assyro-Babylonians.
The Sumerians were not a lost civilization, except that their older physical remains such as at Ur had not been remembered through the ages but were rediscovered only in the mid-19th century.
Their mythology and culture were fairly well preserved in the succeeding civilizations: For instance, some 300,000 tablets of the Babylonians have been found thus far, which include much commentary on their gods.
The main characters in the Sumero-Babylonian religion/mythology are:
- Enlil/Ellil
- Utu/Shamash
- Marduk/Merodach
- Gilgamesh
- Nanna/Sin
- Inanna/Ishtar
- Ea/Enki
- Dumuzi/Tammuz
A number of these deities are in the class called "Anunnaki" and/or "Igigi."
The Anunnaki are numbered variously: 7, 50 and 900.
None of these characters is a historical person, as, again, the Sumero-Babylonians correctly identified their own gods as being the "planets," which, of course, included the sun and the moon to the ancients.
Says the Catholic Encyclopedia regarding Babel:
"The storied tower of Birs Nimrud counts seven of these quadrangular platforms painted in seven colors:
- black, white, yellow, blue, scarlet, silver and gold
and in the same order sacred to the stellar gods:
- Adar (Saturn)
- Ishtar (Venus)
- Merodach (Jupiter)
- Nebo (Mercury)
- Nergal (Mars)
- Sin (the Moon)
- Shamash (the Sun)."
Inanna/Ishtar
One of the "seven who decreed the fates," Inanna/Ishtar was the Goddess, alternately Venus, the moon, the constellation of Virgo, the earth, etc.
Ishtar was "Astarte" in Phoenicia, and, as Frazer says in The Worship of Nature,
"Her Phoenician worshippers identified her with the Moon." Like the Greek god of the underworld, Hades, who allowed his beloved Persephone to return to the surface in order to create spring;
....... Inanna was the creator of seasons, as she is depicted permitting the solar-fertility god Dumuzi/Tammuz to remain in the underworld for only six months out of the year.
THE NEPHILIM - PEOPLE OF THE FIERY ROCKETS
SUMERIAN AND AKKADIAN texts leave no doubt that the peoples of the ancient Near East were certain that the Gods of Heaven and Earth were able to rise from Earth and ascend into the heavens, as well as roam Earth's skies at will.
In a text dealing with the rape of Inanna/Ishtar by an unidentified person, he justifies his deed thus:
One day my Queen,
After crossing heaven, crossing earth.
Inanna,
After crossing heaven, crossing earth -
After crossing Elam and Shubur,
After crossing;
....... The hierodule approached weary, fell asleep.
I saw her from the edge of my garden;
Kissed her, copulated with her.
Inanna, here described as roaming the heavens over many lands that lie far apart;
....... feats possible only by flying - herself spoke on another occasion of her flying.
In a text which S. Langdon (in Revue d'Assyriologie et d'Archeologie Orientale)
....... named "A Classical Liturgy to Innini," the goddess laments her expulsion from her city.
Acting on the instructions of Enlil, an emissary, who "brought to me the word of Heaven,"
....... entered her throne room, "his unwashed hands put on me," and, after other indignities;
....... Me, from my temple,
they caused to fly;
A Queen am I whom, from my city,
like a bird they caused to fly.
Such a capability, by Inanna as well as the other major gods, was often indicated by the ancient artists by depicting the gods, anthropomorphic in all other respects, as we have seen, with wings.
The wings, as can be seen from numerous depictions, were not part of the body - not natural wings - but rather a decorative attachment to the god's clothing.
Inanna/Ishtar, whose far-flung travels are mentioned in many ancient texts, commuted between her initial distant domain in Aratta and her coveted abode in Uruk. She called upon Enki in Eridu and Enlil in Nippur, and visited
her brother Utu at his headquarters in Sippar. But her most celebrated journey was to the Lower World, the domain of her sister Ereshkigal. The journey was the subject not only of epic tales but also of artistic depictions on cylinder seals - the latter showing the goddess with wings, to stress the fact that she flew over from Sumer to the Lower World.
The texts dealing with this hazardous journey describe how Inanna very meticulously put on herself seven objects prior to the start of the voyage, and how she had to give them up as she passed through the seven gates leading to her sister's abode.
Seven such objects are also mentioned in other texts dealing with Inanna's skyborne travels:
1. The SHU.GAR.RA she put on her head.
2. "Measuring pendants," on her ears.
3. Chains of small blue stones, around her neck.
4. Twin "stones," on her shoulders.
5. A golden cylinder, in her hands.
6. Straps, clasping her breast.
7. The PALA garment, clothed around her body.
Though no one has as yet been able to explain the nature and significance of these seven objects, we feel that the answer has long been available.
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In Ancient Mesopotamia Sex Amongst The Gods Shook The Heavens and The Earth
Sexuality was central to life in ancient Mesopotamia, an area of the Ancient Near East often described as the cradle of western civilization roughly corresponding to modern-day:
- Iraq
- Kuwait
- Syria
- Iran
- Turkey
It was not only so for everyday humans but for kings and even deities.
Mesopotamian deities shared many human experiences, with gods marrying, procreating and sharing households and familial duties. However when love went wrong, the consequences could be dire in both heaven and on earth.
Scholars have observed the similarities between the divine "marriage machine" found in ancient literary works and the historical courtship of mortals; ....... although it is difficult to disentangle the two, most famously in so-called "sacred marriages", which saw Mesopotamian kings marrying deities.
Divine sex
Gods, being immortal and generally of superior status to humans, did not strictly need sexual intercourse for population maintenance; ....... yet the practicalities of the matter seem to have done little to curb their enthusiasm.
Sexual relationships between Mesopotamian deities provided inspiration for a rich variety of narratives.
These include Sumerian myths such as Enlil and Ninlil and Enki and Ninhursag; ....... where the complicated sexual interactions between deities was shown to involve trickery, deception and disguise.
In both myths, a male deity adopts a disguise, and then attempts to gain sexual access to the female deity - or to avoid his lover's pursuit. In the first, the goddess Ninlil follows her lover Enlil down into the Underworld, and barters sexual favors for information on Enlil's whereabouts.
The provision of a false identity in these myths is used to circumnavigate societal expectations of sex and fidelity. Sexual betrayal could spell doom not only for errant lovers but for the whole of society. When the Queen of the Underworld, Ereshkigal;
....... is abandoned by her lover, Nergal, she threatens to raise the dead unless he is returned to her, alluding to her right to sexual satiety. The goddess Ishtar makes the same threat in the face of a romantic rejection from the king of Uruk in the Epic of Gilgamesh.
It is interesting to note that both Ishtar and Ereshkigal, who are sisters, use one of the most potent threats at their disposal to address matters of the heart. The plots of these myths highlight the potential for deceit to create alienation between lovers during courtship.
The less-than-smooth course of love in these myths, and their complex use of literary imagery, have drawn scholarly comparisons with the works of Shakespeare.
Love poetry
Ancient authors of Sumerian love poetry, depicting the exploits of divine couples, show a wealth of practical knowledge on the stages of female sexual arousal.
It's thought by some scholars that this poetry may have historically had an educational purpose:
To teach inexperienced young lovers in ancient Mesopotamia about intercourse. It's also been suggested the texts had religious purposes, or possibly magical potency.
Several texts write of the courtship of a divine couple, Inanna (the Semitic equivalent of Ishtar) and her lover, the shepherd deity Dumuzi.
The closeness of the lovers is shown through a sophisticated combination of poetry and sensuousness imagery.
In one of the poems, elements of the female lover's arousal are catalogued, from the increased lubrication of her vulva, to the "trembling" of her climax.
The male partner is presented delighting in his partner's physical form, and speaking kindly to her. The feminine perspective on lovemaking is emphasized in the texts through the description of the goddess' erotic fantasies.
These fantasies are part of the preparations of the goddess for her union, and perhaps contribute to her sexual satisfaction.
Female and male genitals could be celebrated in poetry, the presence of dark pubic hair on the goddess' vulva is poetically described through the symbolism of a flock of ducks on a well-watered field or a narrow doorway framed in glossy black lapis-lazuli.
The representation of genitals may also have served a religious function:
temple inventories have revealed votive models of pubic triangles, some made of clay or bronze.
Votive offerings in the shape of vulvae have been found in the city of Assur from before 1000 BC.
Happy goddess, happy kingdom
Divine sex was not the sole preserve of the gods, but could also involve the human king.
Few topics from Mesopotamia have captured the imagination as much as the concept of sacred marriage.
In this tradition, the historical Mesopotamian king would be married to the goddess of love, Ishtar.
There is literary evidence for such marriages from very early Mesopotamia, before 2300 BC, and the concept persevered into much later periods.
The relationship between historical kings and Mesopotamian deities was considered crucial to the successful continuation of earthly and cosmic order.
For the Mesopotamian monarch, then, the sexual relationship with the goddess of love most likely involved a certain amount of pressure to perform.
Some scholars have suggested these marriages involved a physical expression between the king and another person (such as a priestess) embodying the goddess.
The general view now is that if there were a physical enactment to a sacred marriage ritual it would have been conducted on a symbolic level rather than a carnal one, with the king perhaps sharing his bed with a statue of the deity.
Agricultural imagery was often used to describe the union of goddess and king. Honey, for instance, is described as sweet like the goddess' mouth and vulva.
A love song from the city of Ur between 2100-2000 BC is dedicated to Shu-Sin, the king, and Ishtar:
In the bedchamber dripping with honey let us enjoy over and over your allure, the sweet thing.
Lad, let me do the sweetest things to you. My precious sweet, let me bring you honey.
Sex in this love poetry is depicted as a pleasurable activity that enhanced loving feelings of intimacy.
This sense of increased closeness was considered to bring joy to the heart of the goddess;
....... resulting in good fortune and abundance for the entire community, perhaps demonstrating an early Mesopotamian version of the adage "happy wife, happy life".
The diverse presentation of divine sex creates something of a mystery around the causes for the cultural emphasis on cosmic copulation.
While the presentation of divine sex and marriage in ancient Mesopotamia likely served numerous purposes;
....... some elements of the intimate relationships between gods shows some carry-over to mortal unions.
While dishonesty between lovers could lead to alienation, positive sexual interactions held countless benefits, including greater intimacy and lasting happiness.
Easter:
The Resurrection or Spring
Although it is believed to represent the time of Jesus Christ's 'resurrection,' the festival of Easter existed in pre-christian times and;
....... according to the famous christian saint Venerable Bede (672-735 AD/CE)
....... was named for the Teutonic or German goddess Eôstre, who was the "goddess of dawn" and who symbolized the fertility found abundantly during the springtime of the year. (See CE, V, 224; Weekley, 491)
Regarding the ancient fertility goddess, in How the Easter Story Grew from Gospel to Gospel, Dr. Rolland E. Wolfe, a professor of Biblical Literature at Case Western Reserve University, relates:
"In the polytheistic pantheons of antiquity there usually was a king or chief of the gods, and also a female counterpart who was regarded as his wife.
This mother goddess was one of the most important deities in the ancient Near East.
She was called by the various names of Ishtar, Athtar [sic], Astarte, Ashtoreth, Antit, and Anat.
This mother goddess always was associated with human fertility. In the course of time Mary was to become identified with this ancient mother goddess;
....... or perhaps it should be said that Mary was about to supplant her in certain christian circles."
(Wolfe, 234)
The comparison between the Babylonian goddess Ishtar and the Jewish maiden Mary becomes even more evident when it is factored in that in an ancient Akkadian hymn Ishtar is called "Virgin." (Sayce, 268)
Yet, like Mary, Ishtar too was the "Mother of God," in this case Tammuz, the dying and rising god mourned by the Israelite women at Ezekiel 8:14. (See Mettinger, 213)
Indeed, Old Testament scholar Rev. Dr. W. Robertson Smith identifies Ishtar as the virgin-mother goddess worshipped at Petra who was mentioned by Church father Epiphanius.
In a footnote, Smith remarks,
"The identification of the mother of the gods with the heavenly virgin, in other words, the unmarried goddess, is confirmed if not absolutely demanded by Aug. Civ. Dei, ii. 4."
(Smith, 56)
The reference is to St. Augustine's The City of God (2.4), in which the Church father discusses with undisguised contempt the Pagan rites surrounding,
"the virgin Caelestis" and "Berecynthia the mother of them all."
(Augustine, 54)
From these remarks and many others over the past centuries it is clear that the educated elite have been well aware of the unoriginality of the virgin-mother motif within christianity.
Yet, to this day the public remains uninformed and/or in fervent denial about such facts.
Quite frequently, Ishtar was depicted as a naked goddess; flaunting her beauty, she was sometimes even depicted raising her skirts to reveal the lower parts of her body.
Gilgamesh, a ruler of Uruk circa 2900 B.C. who was also partly divine (having been born to a human father and a goddess), reported how Inanna enticed him - even after she already had an official spouse. Having washed himself after a battle and put on "a fringe cloak, fastened with a sash,"
Glorious Ishtar raised an eye at his beauty.
"Come, Gilgamesh, be thou my lover!
Come, grant me your fruit.
Thou shall be my male mate, I will be thy female."
But Gilgamesh knew the score.
"Which of thy lovers didst thou love forever?" he asked.
"Which of thy shepherds pleased thee for all time?”
Reciting a long list of her love affairs, he refused.
As time went on - as she assumed higher ranks in the pantheon, and with it the responsibility for affairs of state - Inanna/Ishtar began to display more martial qualities, and was often depicted as a Goddess of War, armed to the teeth.
The inscriptions left by Assyrian kings describe how they went to war for her and upon her command, how she directly advised when to wait and when to attack; ....... how she sometimes marched at the head of the armies, and how, on at least one occasion, she granted a theophany and appeared before all the troops.
In return for their loyalty, she promised the Assyrian kings long life and success.
"From a Golden Chamber in the skies I will watch over thee," she assured them. Was she turned into a bitter warrior because she, too, came upon hard times with the rise of Marduk to supremacy?
In one of his inscriptions Nabunaid said:
"Inanna of Uruk, the exalted princess who dwelt in a gold cella, who rode upon a chariot to which were harnessed seven lions, the inhabitants of Uruk changed her cult during the rule of king Erba-Marduk, removed her cella and unharnessed her team."
Inanna, reported Nabunaid, "had therefore left the E-Anna angrily, and stayed hence in an unseemly place" (which he does not name). Seeking, perhaps, to combine love with power, the much-courted Inanna chose as her husband DU.MU.ZI, a younger son of Enki.
Many ancient texts deal with the loves and quarrels of the two. Some are love songs of great beauty and vivid sexuality. Others tell how Ishtar, back from one of her journeys, found Dumuzi celebrating her absence.
She arranged for his capture and disappearance into the Lower World - a domain ruled by her sister E.RESH.KI.GAL and her consort NER.GAL.
Some of the most celebrated Sumerian and Akkadian texts deal with the journey of Ishtar to the Lower World in search of her banished beloved.
Of the six known sons of Enki, three have been featured in Sumerian tales:
The firstborn Marduk, who eventually usurped the supremacy
Nergal, who became ruler of the Lower World
Dumuzi, who married Inanna/Ishtar.
Enlil, too, had three sons who played key roles in both divine and human affairs:
Ninurta, who, having been born to Enlil by his sister Ninhursag, was the legal successor
Nanna/Sin, firstborn by Enlil's official spouse Ninlil
a younger son by Ninlil named ISH.KUR
("mountainous," "far mountain land"), who was more frequently called Adad ("beloved") As brother of Sin and uncle of Utu and Inanna, Adad appears to have felt more at home with them than at his own house.
The Sumerian texts constantly grouped the four together. The ceremonies connected with the visit of Anu to Uruk also spoke of the four as a group. One text, describing the entrance to the court of Anu, states that the throne room was reached through "the gate of Sin, Shamash, Adad, and Ishtar."
Another text, first published by V. K. Shileiko (Russian Academy of the History of Material Cultures) poetically described the four as retiring for the night together.
The greatest affinity seems to have existed between Adad and Ishtar, and the two were even depicted next to each other; ....... as on this relief showing an Assyrian ruler being blessed by Adad (holding the ring and lightning) and by Ishtar, holding her bow. (The third deity is too mutilated to be identified.)
Was there more to this "affinity" than a platonic relationship, especially in view of Ishtar's "record"? It is noteworthy that in the biblical Song of Songs, the playful girl calls her lover dod - a word that means both "lover" and "uncle."
Now, was Ishkur called Adad - a derivative from the Sumerian DA.DA - because he was the uncle who was the lover? But Ishkur was not only a playboy; he was a mighty god, endowed by his father Enlil with the powers and prerogatives of a storm god.
As such he was revered as the Hurrian/Hittite Teshub and the Urartian Teshubu ("wind blower"), the Amorite Ramanu ("thunderer") ....... the Canaanite Ragimu ("caster of hailstones"), the Indo-European Buriash ("light maker"), the Semitic Meir ("he who lights up" the skies).
A god list kept at the British Museum, as shown by Hans Schlobies (Der Akkadwche Wettergott in Mesopotamen), clarifies that Ishkur was indeed the divine lord in lands far from Sumer and Akkad.
As Sumerian texts reveal, this was no accident. Enlil, it seems, willfully dispatched his young son to become the "Resident Deity" in the mountain lands north and west of Mesopotamia.
Why did Enlil dispatch his youngest and beloved son away from Nippur?
Several Sumerian epic tales have been found about the arguments and even bloody struggles among the younger gods.
Many cylinder seals depict scenes of god battling god; it would seem that the original rivalry between Enki and Enlil was carried on and intensified between their sons, with brother sometimes turning against brother, a divine tale of Cain and Abel.
Some of these battles were against a deity identified as Kur - in all probability, Ishkur/Adad.
This may well explain why Enlil deemed it advisable to grant his younger son a far-off domain, to keep him out of the dangerous battles for the succession. The position of the sons of Anu, Enlil, and Enki, and of their offspring, in the dynastic lineage emerges clearly through a unique Sumerian device: the allocation of numerical rank to certain gods.
The discovery of this system also brings out the membership in the Great Circle of Gods of Heaven and Earth when Sumerian civilization blossomed. We shall find that this Supreme Pantheon was made up of twelve deities. The first hint that a cryptographic number system was applied to the Great Gods came with the discovery that the names of the gods Sin, Shamash, and Ishtar were sometimes substituted in the texts by the numbers 30, 20, and 15, respectively.
The highest unit of the Sumerian sexagesimal system - 60 - was assigned to Anu; Enlil "was" 50; Enki, 40; and Adad, 10. The number 10 and its six multiples within the prime number 60 were thus assigned to male deities, and it would appear plausible that the numbers ending with 5 were assigned to the female deities.
THE MYTH OF THE DYING GOD; The myth of Tammuz and Ishtar is one of the earliest examples of the dying-god allegory, probably antedating 4000 B. C. (See Babylonia and Assyria by Lewis Spence.)
The imperfect condition of the tablets upon which the legends are inscribed makes it impossible to secure more than a fragmentary account of the Tammuz rites.
Being the esoteric god of the sun, Tammuz did not occupy a position among the first deities venerated by the Babylonians, who for lack of deeper knowledge looked upon him as a god of agriculture or a vegetation spirit.
Originally he was described as being one of the guardians of the gates of the underworld. Like many other Savior-Gods, he is referred to as a "shepherd" or "the lord of the shepherd seat."
Tammuz occupies the remarkable position of son and husband of Ishtar, the Babylonian and Assyrian Mother-goddess.
Ishtar--to whom the planer Venus was sacred--was the most widely venerated deity of the Babylonian and Assyrian pantheon.
She was probably identical with Ashterorh, Astarte, and Aphrodite. The story of her descent into the underworld in search presumably for the sacred elixir which alone could restore Tammuz to life is the key to the ritual of her Mysteries.
Tammuz, whose annual festival took place just before the summer solstice, died in midsummer in the ancient month which bore his name, and was mourned with elaborate ceremonies.
The manner of his death is unknown, but some of the accusations made against Ishtar by Izdubar (Nimrod) would indicate that she, indirectly at least, had contributed to his demise.
The resurrection of Tammuz was the occasion of great rejoicing, at which time he was hailed as a "redeemer" of his people.
With outspread wings, Ishtar, the daughter of Sin (the Moon), sweeps downward to the gates of death.
The house of darkness, the dwelling of the god Irkalla, is described as "the place of no return."
It is without light; the nourishment of those who dwell therein is dust and their food is mud.
Over the bolts on the door of the house of Irkalla is scattered dust, and the keepers of the house are covered with feathers like birds.
Ishtar demands that the keepers open the gates, declaring that if they do not she will shatter the doorposts and strike the hinges and raise up dead devourers of the living.
The guardians of the gates beg her to be patient while they go to the queen of Hades from whom they secure permission to admit Ishtar, but only in the same manner as all others came to this dreary house.
Ishtar thereupon descends through the seven gates which lead downward into the depths of the underworld.
At the first gate the great crown is removed from her head, at the second gate the earrings from her ears, at the third gate the necklace from her neck, at the fourth gate the ornaments from her breast, at the fifth gate the girdle from her waist, at the sixth gate the bracelets from her hands and feet, and at the seventh gate the covering cloak of her body.
Ishtar remonstrates as each successive article of apparel is taken from her, bur the guardian tells her that this is the experience of all who enter the somber domain of death.
Enraged upon beholding Ishtar, the Mistress of Hades inflicts upon her all manner of disease and imprisons her in the underworld.
As Ishtar represents the spirit of fertility, her loss prevents the ripening of the crops and the maturing of all life upon the earth.
In this respect the story parallels the legend of Persephone. The gods, realizing that the loss of Ishtar is disorganizing all Nature, send a messenger to the underworld and demand her release.
The Mistress of Hades is forced to comply, and the water of life is poured over Ishtar.
Thus cured of the infirmities inflicted on her, she retraces her way upward through the seven gates, at each of which she is reinvested with the article of apparel which the guardians had removed. (See The Chaldean Account of Genesis.)
No record exists that Ishtar secured the water of life which would have wrought the resurrection of Tammuz.
The myth of Ishtar symbolizes the descent of the human spirit through the seven worlds, or spheres of the sacred planets, until finally, deprived of its spiritual adornments, it incarnates in the physical body, Hades, where the mistress of that body heaps every form of sorrow and misery upon the imprisoned consciousness.
The waters of life, the secret doctrine, cure the diseases of ignorance; and the spirit, ascending again to its divine source, regains its God-given adornments as it passes upward through the rings of the planets.
Inanna's (Ishtar's) War Against the Serpent Clan
Nammur and his Ram Clan were afraid that Ea and his Serpent Clan would control Earth space facilities.
The Serpents controlled everything regarding shipping of gold, and Marduk even was in charge of space travels between Earth and Nibiru.
Hypothetically, the Serpents could stop the Rams from even leaving the Earth.
In secret, Nammur therefore sent Ninurta to set up the base in today's Peru, next to the Titicaca Lake, run by Enlil's son, Ninurta. She also built a spaceport on the plains next to the Andes.
This area, being rich in gold, was now in the stronghold of the Ram Clan, and in the middle of this rivalry, two Anunnaki from opposite clans fell in love.
Inanna is known under many different names, such as:
- Aphrodite
- Venus
- Ishtar
- Athena
- Kali
- Ninni
She was also a son's daughter of Lord Nammur, the Enlil. Her parents were Nannar and Ningal.
Dumuzi, as we know, was Marduk's brother and Ea's son. Dumuzi was born on Earth, and so was Inanna. Therefore, they were short-lived in comparison to those who were born and stayed on Nibiru.
Around 8,670 BC, the two started laying eyes on each other and became lovers.
Inanna revealed to Marduk's sister what her plans were: she wanted to build a great nation on Earth and be the ruling queen thereof, while her spouse would be given status in the empire.
When Marduk's sister came back and told him about this, Marduk did not like what he heard. He wanted no competition from his brother.
He and his sister, Geshtinanna, therefore decided to set Dumuzi up. She seduced him and let Dumuzi have intercourse with her.
After the fact she scared him and told him that Marduk would accuse him of rape and he would be in deep trouble.
Dumuzi was terrified and fled. However, he was in such a hurry that he accidentally slipped on a stone, fell into a waterfall and drowned.
That was the end to peace between the two clans.
Inanna was furious and wanted to take revenge for Dumuzi's death, so she went to war against Marduk.
Ea and his clansmen supported Marduk in the feud, and Marduk's grandson, Horon/Horus joined him as well, together with the Igigi astronauts, and in one of the battles Inanna managed to blind Horus' right eye.
Inanna showed to be a very skilled warrior and strategic, and she moved in closer and closer on Marduk, who fled and took shelter in the Great Pyramid of Giza.
On foot, Inanna, Iškur/Adad (Nammur's youngest son) and Ninurta cornered Marduk in the pyramid, in one of the air-tight chambers.
Instead of killing him in an instance, they decided to bury him alive, so they put stones before the entrance to the chamber and left Marduk to his destiny.
The Serpent Clan brought up the issue before the Council and asked them to spare Marduk's life, but Inanna insisted that he deserved it after what he'd done to his own brother.
Ninhursag brought the two feuding brothers, the Enlil and the Enki before the Council and suggested they exile Marduk and put Ninurta, Nammur's son, in his place and thus create a clan shift. This became the final verdict.
Ningishzidda unsealed the chamber and found Marduk unconscious inside. Nammur's eldest son managed to revive him and helped him out of the chamber. He was put before the Council and got the verdict first hand.
So Marduk, his wife Sarpanit, and his son Nabu were exiled,
"to a place where horned beasts were hunted, a land uninhabited by the descendents of Ziusudra/Noah."
The Grail families, according to Plantard, ultimately control Europe, but do so almost with the permission of the Vatican, the other great power that secretly manipulates European politics.
It is a sort of symbiotic relationship built not so much on mutual respect but on the recognition on the part of each that neither party could hope to hold power for very long without the acquiescence of the other.
In this way, the situation is much the same as it was during the days of the Holy Roman Empire.
When the European Union officially began in 1950 as the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC)
....... it was a purely economic confederation built for the purpose of helping Europe recover from the war and fend off the growing Communist threat.
Today, the European Union is a swiftly coalescing super-state, with a common currency, central bank, parliament, judiciary, police force, and international laws that in many cases overrule member states.
Plans are in place to create a standing European army, navy and air force meant to phase out European reliance on NATO and the UN.
Europe even has a common flag and a transnational anthem, Beethoven’s “Ode to Joy.”
The EU consists of fifteen member countries and acquired more on May 1, 2004 (the pagan holiday of Beltane).
It will then contain more than half a billion people.
It definitely constitutes a power equal in magnitude to the United States, and the Communist bloc, which it was partially conceived for the purpose of combating, has been destroyed.
But the trend towards transnational super-states is growing.
Otto von Habsburg stated in a recent interview that,
“NAFTA will also develop into such an organization [like the EU.]
Then we can gradually come to what will be a global organization.”
There are those, such as J.R. Church (host of the “Prophecy in the News” television program)
....... and the late Herbert W. Armstrong (of the Worldwide Church of God) who have seen in the EU a fulfillment of Biblical prophecy;
....... the kingdom of the Antichrist described in The Revelation of St. John the Divine.
In this book, it describes,
“a woman clothed with the Sun, and the Moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars.”
(Revelation 12.)
When one reads this, it is impossible not to think of the flag of the European Union, consisting of twelve stars on a blue field, supposedly because “12 is the number of perfection”;
....... according to the EU’s official website. (This is the same flag proposed in Vaincre for the United States of Europe.)
Furthermore, the description of the woman in Revelation 12 accords precisely with that of the Babylonian mother goddess, Ishtar, the “Queen of Heaven”, who also stands upon the Moon, clothed with the Sun, and with a crown of twelve stars around her head.
This image was later adapted by the Catholic Church into their image of the Virgin Mary, also called by them the “Queen of Heaven.”
Indeed, the Pope has officially declared the Virgin Mary to be the patron deity of the European Union.
Also, the twenty pence coin of the British colony Gibraltar once bore the image of the Virgin Mary, crowned with the twelve stars and labeled both “Queen of Heaven” and “Our Lady of Europa.”
Ishtar was the Babylonian love goddess, worshipped as a divine whore with the sacred rite of temple prostitution.
Can there be any doubt, then, that this is the same goddess discussed later in The Revelation of St. John the Divine when it talks about the Scarlet Woman,
“the great whore that sitteth upon many waters;
....... with whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication”?
St. John describes his vision thusly:
“...and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet-colored beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns.
And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet color, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication.
And upon her forehead was a name written:
MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH. (Revelation 17:4-5.)”
The cup she is described as holding is reminiscent of the Grail, symbolized as a holy vessel.
The Catholic Church has personified this image of the scarlet woman in the form of St. Mary Magdalene, the reformed whore of the New Testament who became Christ’s closest disciple
....... (and, according to apocryphal literature, also his wife.)
The Grail families worship Mary Magdalene as a personification of the Venus/Ishtar love goddess archetype, and she is often depicted holding a vase “full of healing balm”, which is said by esotericists to symbolize the Grail.
Another notable feature of the Scarlet Woman is the Beast upon which she rides. St. John the Divine states specifically that,
“The seven heads [of the Beast] are the seven mountains on which the woman sitteth.”
(Revelation. 17:9.)
Rome was built upon seven hills, so this statement may indicate the Catholic Church of Rome, a revised version of the old Babylonian priesthood (with the old gods disguised as Christ, Mary and the saints).
In Revelation 17:12 it says:
“the ten horns... are ten kings, which have received no kingdom as yet, but receive power as kings one hour with the Beast.”
Could these be the crown heads of Europe, who will one day rule over ten forthcoming kingdoms in a newly-revised Holy Roman Empire?
Herbert W. Armstrong certainly thought so. He believed (in accordance with my own research)
....... that the royal houses of Europe were made up of the descendants of the ten lost tribes of Israel;
....... and that they were destined to establish the kingdom of the Antichrist, exactly as these tribes had been prophesized to do in the Bible.
The image of a woman riding a beast is in itself symbolic of Europe. An ancient Greek myth, discussed in detail in Dagobert’s Revenge Volume 4#1, relates how the goddess Europa (after whom the continent of Europe was named)
....... was kidnapped and raped by the great Zeus in the form of a bull. He came to her from out of the sea, and carried her off beneath the waves.
This story has previously been identified this story with the myth of the Quinotaur, or sea bull, whose rape of a Visigothic princess lead to the birth of Meroveus, the founder of the Merovingian dynasty.
Of course, the Merovingians went on to provide Europe with the royal families who ruled over the Holy Roman Empire, now currently being resurrected in the form of the European Union.
The image of Europa riding the bull is used on numerous official EU documents, including currency, and can be found depicted in motifs and statuary throughout the official EU buildings in Brussels and Strasbourg.
This has been interpreted by a number of Bible prophecy preachers as a statement by the EU identifying itself with the Beast of Revelation, yet many of these people are ignorant of the Greek myth of Europa.
It is clear, however, that the man who called himself St. John the Divine most certainly was not ignorant of the Greek myth.
He saw that the Roman Empire was destined to dominate the world, and he specifically chose to depict it this way.
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Entities of the Underworld
Still another factor connecting the Anunnaki with the story of the Watchers and their offspring is their status as underworld beings.
In Mesopotamian cycles, the Anunnaki are frequently depicted as "fates" or judges of the dead who occupy the subterranean realm or function as "spirits of the earth".
In tablets discovered at Nippur from around 2000 BC, the Anunnaki are "the seven judges", underworld entities that accompany Ereshkigal, queen of the subterranean realm.
When Ishtar descends and is brought before the assembly, they fasten their "eyes of death" upon her, causing her to perish.
Origins in Sumerian Mythology
"According to Sumerian chronicles of the earlier times, it was at Eridu's temple that Enki, as guardian of the secrets of all scientific knowledge;
....... kept the ME's - tabletlike objects on which the scientific data were inscribed.
One of the Sumerian texts details how the goddess Inanna (later known as Ishtar), wishing to give status to her 'cult center' Uruk (the biblical Erech), tricked Enki into giving her some of those divine formulas.
Adapa, we find, was also nicknamed NUN.ME, meaning "He who can decipher the ME's'. Even unto millennia later, in Assyrian times, the saying 'Wise as Adapa' meant that someone was exceedingly wise and knowledgeable.
The 'wide knowledge' imparted by Enki to Adapa included writing, medicine, and - according to the astronomical series of tablets UD.SAR.ANUM.ENLILLA ('The Great Days of Amu and Enlil') - knowledge of astronomy and astrology."
"...It is almost certain that the biblical 'Enoch' was the equivalent of the Sumerian first priest, EN.ME.DUR.AN.KI ('High Priest of the ME's of the Bond Heaven-Earth')
........ the man from the city Sippar taken heavenward to be taught the secrets of Heaven and Earth, of divination, and of the calendar.
It was with him that the generations of astronomer-priests, of Keepers of the Secrets, began."
- Zecharia Sitchin, When Time Began
The Moon
Indeed the very concept of Christianity is built around a celestial and solar worship:
Christ is the sun, which dies for three days in midwinter and is resurrected three days later;
....... Mary being linked both in myth and etymology to the moon; and the 12 disciples representing the 12 star-signs.
The moon is tied up in many of our early cultures.
The names of its associated deities vary due to locality, language, and ethnic differences, but are all essentially of the same:
Aphrodite, Astarte, Badb, Brigit, Ch’ang O, Demeter, Persephone, Hecate, Inanna, Isis, Ishtar, Maja Jotma, Tsuki-Yomi, and all emerging as the Gnostic Sophia or wisdom.
Some of these designations have been carried on, kept alive behind the scenes by the secret cults while they were subtly battling or even creating the front lines of the new or growing solar and male-oriented popular gods such as Mithras and Yahweh.
They are all literal elements of a very real internal symbolism - the balance of the male and female sides of our own mind.
Mankind suffered a devastating blow, an ancient and lofty civilization was destroyed, and if one believes the ancient texts as translated by Sitchin, humans 4,000 years ago were exposed to the very same weapons we so fear today.
There can be little doubt that this description mirrors nuclear devastation. But what about the Anunnaki? They apparently remained.
After the destruction of Sumeria, what became of the "state religions"?
The gods apparently migrated, sometimes arising under other names.
They can be found in the religion of the Hittites, the Indus Valley, Egypt, Babylonia, the Elamites, Canaanites and the Phoenicians.
Later, as civilizations arose in Greece and the Mediterranean islands, the gods’ influence found its way into those temples and religion.
For example, the Lord Marduk in Egypt is worshiped as the God "Ra," the Goddess Ishtar is the Sumerian Goddess Inanna, and so forth.
Sitchin has also found and documented Sumerian influence in the gods historically revered by cultures in Central and South America.
The Olmecs of Central America have always been a mysterious civilization.
Obviously African peoples, they have been traced back to about 3,000 BCE.
The great Mesoamerican deity, the "Winged Serpent," or Quetzalcoatl, has been linked to the Egyptian God Thoth, who was thrown out of Egypt circa 3,000 BCE.
Thoth bore another name from the Sumerian pantheon, Ningishzidda.
These repetitive appearances of similar deities have carried over from pre-biblical and biblical times.
The question today is this: where are the Anunnaki now?
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