This week we’re discussing Inanna, the goddess for the people (and by people we mean the girls, the gays and the theys).

Join us to learn about the ancient Sumerian goddess of love and war.

Sources

Wikipedia 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_themes_in_mythology#Mythologies_of_Africa

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gala_(priests)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inanna#Descent_into_the_underworld

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ninhursag

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nad%C4%ABtu

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hijra_(South_Asia)

Met Museum 

https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/epic/hd_epic.htm#:~:text=In%20the%20Sumerian%20poem%20%E2%80%9CThe,them%20to%20humankind%20as%20sustenance.

Elain Mansfield 

https://elainemansfield.com/2016/listening-dark-descent-inanna/

World History

https://www.worldhistory.org/article/215/inannas-descent-a-sumerian-tale-of-injustice/

Interesting Literature

https://interestingliterature.com/2018/05/the-first-epic-poem-the-descent-of-inanna/

UNCW

http://people.uncw.edu/deagona/myth/Descent%20Of%20Inanna.pdf

Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature 

https://etcsl.orinst.ox.ac.uk/section1/tr141.htm

Study.com

https://study.com/academy/lesson/inanna-goddess-descent-myth-summary.html

World History

https://www.worldhistory.org/Inanna/

Oracc museum

http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/amgg/listofdeities/inanaitar/

The Cut

https://www.thecut.com/2019/02/i-think-about-this-a-lot-inanna-the-sumerian-goddess.html

Era Gem

https://eragem.com/news/goddess-inanna/

Academus

https://www.academuseducation.co.uk/post/ancient-mesopotamian-transgender-and-non-binary-identities

Hornet

https://hornet.com/stories/sad-songs-and-buttsex-the-gala-priests-of-ancient-sumer/

Ecology of the Erotic in a Myth of Inanna

https://digitalcommons.ciis.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1150&context=ijts-transpersonalstudies