Inanna

Inanna
Inanna
This is Inanna on the Ishtar Vase in the French museum Louvre.
This is Inanna on the Ishtar Vase in the French museum Louvre.
Queen of Heaven
Goddess of Love, War, Fertility and Lust
Abode Heaven
Symbol Sky, Clouds, Wars, Birth & Skin
Consort Dumuzi
Parents Nanna or Sin and Ningal
Siblings Utu, Ishkur and Ereshkigal
Children Lulal and Shara
Fertile Crescent
myth series
Mark of the Palm
Mesopotamian
Levantine
Arabian
Mesopotamia
Primordial beings
7 gods who decree
The great gods
Demigods & heroes
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Tales from Babylon 

Enûma Eliš
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Agasaya, Bel
Qingu

Inanna, also spelled Inana (Sumerian Inannasumerianblack.png DINA NA; Akkadian DINGIRINANNA DINANA ) is the Sumerian goddess of sexual love, fertility, and warfare. Alternative Sumerian names include Innin, Ennin, Ninnin, Ninni, Ninanna, Ninnar, Innina, Ennina, Irnina, Innini, Nana and Nin. These names are commonly derived from an earlier Nin-ana "lady of the sky", although Gelb (1960) presented the suggestion that the oldest form is Innin (DINNIN) and that Ninni, Nin-anna and Irnina are independent goddesses in origin.[1] Her Akkadian counterpart is Ishtar.

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Origins

Inanna can be considered the most prominent female deity in ancient Mesopotamia.[2] As early as the Uruk period (ca. 4000 to 3100 BC), Inanna was associated with the city of Uruk. The famous Uruk Vase (found in a deposit of cult objects of the Uruk III period) depicts a row of naked men carrying various objects, bowls, vessels, and baskets of farm produce, and bringing sheep and goats, to a female figure facing the ruler. This figure was ornately dressed for a divine marriage, and attended by a servant. The female figure holds the symbol of the two twisted reeds of the doorpost, signifying Inanna behind her, while the male figure holds a box and stack of bowls, the later cuneiform sign signifying En, or high priest of the temple. Especially in the Uruk period, the symbol of a ring-headed doorpost is associated with Inanna.[2]

Seal impressions from the Jemdet Nasr period (ca. 3100-2900 BC) show a fixed sequence of city symbols including those of Ur, Larsa, Zabalam, Urum, Arina, and probably Kesh. It is likely that this list reflects the report of contributions to Inanna at Uruk from cities supporting her cult. A large number of similar sealings were found from the slightly later Early Dynastic I phase at Ur, in a slightly different order, combined with the rosette symbol of Inanna, that were definitely used for this purpose. They had been used to lock storerooms to preserve materials set aside for her cult.[3] Inanna's primary temple of worship was the Eanna, located in Uruk (c.f. Worship).

Inanna's name is commonly taken from Nin-anna "Queen of Heaven" (from Sumerian NIN "lady", AN "sky"),[4] although the cuneiform sign for her name (Borger 2003 nr. 153, U+12239


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