Showing posts with label Iraq. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Iraq. Show all posts
Wednesday, July 24, 2019
Friday, January 25, 2019
Inanna/Ishtar
Inanna was a Sumerian (ancient Iraq) goddess of fertility, sex, and war who became known in later Mesopotamia as Ishtar. Associated with the planet Venus and lions, Inanna was a powerful female deity who in retaliation for having been raped by a gardener while sleeping under a tree, caused huge storms, turned rivers to blood, and cast disease among the people, before hunting down her violator and killing him. What is more, in the Epic of Gilgamesh, when King Gilgamesh rejected her advances she released “the Bull of Heaven” to maul him?
The Bull of Heaven is the constellation we call Taurus. He is controlled by the sky god Anu. The Bull of Heaven appears in the Epic of Gilgamesh. After Gilgamesh upsets the goddess Ishtar, she convinces her father Anu to send the Bull of Heaven to earth to destroy the crops and kill people.
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