Inanna / Inana = Nannar & Ningal’s Daughter
twin to Utu, sister to Ereshkigal, spouse to Dumuzi, & many mixed-breed kings
(Texts: All Artifacts, Color Coding, & Writings in Bold Type With Italics Inside Parenthesis, are Added by Editor R. Brown, not the Authors, Translators, or Publishers!)
(gods in blue …mixed-breed demigods in teal...)
(Enki‘s creation = Enkidu, Enlil‘s creation = Hawawa)
(Inanna of different cultures)
“Inanna of 10,000 Names since the beginning of times…”
Inanna Speaking in the 1st Person:
“Inanna looked at him with admiration and spontaneously struck up a song, singing the words:
‘When I have bathed for the king, for the lord,
when I have bathed for the shepherd Dumuzid (Dumuzi),
when I have adorned my flanks (?) with ointment (?),
when I have anointed my mouth with balsamic oil, when I have painted my eyes with kohl,
when he has …… my hips with his fair hands,
when the lord who lies down beside holy Inanna, the shepherd Dumuzid, has …… on his lap,
when he has relaxed (?) …… in my pure (?) arms,
when he has intercourse (?) with me …… like choice beer,
when he ruffles my pubic hair for me, when he plays with the hair of my head,
when he lays his hands on my holy genitals, when he lies down in the …… of my sweet womb,
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when he treats me tenderly on the bed, then I will too treat my lord tenderly.
I will decree a good fate for him!
I will treat Culgi (King Shulgi), the good shepherd, tenderly!
I will decree a good fate for him! I will treat him tenderly in his ……!
I will decree the shepherdship of all the lands as his destiny!’ …
‘In battle I will be the one who goes before you.
In combat I will carry your weapon like a personal attendant.
In the assembly I will be your advocate.
On campaign I will be your encouragement.
You are a shepherd chosen by holy …….
You are the generous provider of E-ana.
You are the pure (?) one of An’s Iri-gal.
You are worthy of …….
You are one who is entitled to hold high his head on the lofty dais.
You are one who is worthy of sitting on the shining throne.
Your head is worthy of the brilliant crown.
Your body is worthy of the long fleecy garment.
You are worthy of being dressed in the royal garb.
You are suited to hold the mitum weapon in your arm. …
You are a fast runner suited to race on the road.
You are worthy to delight yourself on my holy breast like a pure calf.
May your love be lasting!
An has determined this for you, and may he never alter it!
May Enlil, the decreer of fates, never change it!’
Thus Inanna treated him tenderly.”
“Inanna spoke to her brother the hero, youthful Utu:
‘My brother, I want to tell you something — pay attention to my speech.
……Utu, my twin, I want to tell you something — pay attention to my speech. …”
“Inanna who has attained her triumphant position, declares in the good place:
‘I have captured E-ana from An‘…”
“Holy Inanna spoke to the (Enki‘s) minister Isimud:
‘How could my father have changed what he said to me?’ …
Enki has said to me: ‘Inanna may travel to Unug (Uruk),
but you are to get the Boat of Heaven back to Eridug (Enki‘s city Eridu) for me’ ….
Holy Inanna spoke to the (Enki‘s) minister Isimud:
‘How could my father have changed what he said to me?’ …”
“Eanna did cry like a birthing mom:
‘This is not what I thought would be when I did bring to council my complaints.
Now the humans are like fish but still as if out of river had they gone on to stony ground.’
The Annunaki wept with her in regret …”
“Holy Inanna answered him:
‘Because lord Gud-gal-ana (Nergal),
the husband of my elder sister holy Erec-ki-gala (Ereshkigal), has died;
in order to have his funeral rites observed,
she offers generous libations at his wake — that is the reason.’
Neti, the chief doorman of the underworld, answered holy Inanna:
‘Stay here, Inanna. I will speak to my mistress.
I will speak to my mistress Erec-ki-gala and tell her what you have said.’ …”
“Be you my (Inanna’s) husband, and I will be your (Gilgamesh‘s) wife.
I will have harnessed for you a chariot of lapis lazuli and gold, with wheels of gold and ‘horns’ of electrum(?).
It will he harnessed with great storming mountain mules!
Come into our house, with the fragrance of cedar.
And when you come into our house the doorpost(?) and throne dais(?)’ will kiss your feet. …”
“’I, the holy Inanna: where are my functions?’
Enki answers his daughter (granddaughter), the holy Inanna:
‘What did I keep from you? Innin, what did I keep from you?
What more could we add to you?
Young Inanna, what did I keep from you?’ …”
“Ishtar (Inanna) shrieked like a woman in childbirth, the sweet-voiced Mistress of the Gods wailed:
‘The olden days have alas turned to clay, because I said evil things in the Assembly of the Gods!
How could I say evil things in the Assembly of the Gods, ordering a catastrophe to destroy my people!!
No sooner have I given birth to my dear people than they fill the sea like so many fish!’
The gods–those of the Anunnaki–were weeping with her,
the gods humbly sat weeping, sobbing with grief(?), their lips burning, parched with thirst. …”
Inanna:
“I name her Inanna, the First Daughter of the Moon (moon crescent god Nannar),
the Morning and Evening Star (Venus, 8-pointed star symbol of Inanna, 8th planet in from outer space),
who will be the Great Goddess of Love and War, …”
“An, who created gods and humankind, gazed at holy Inanna
(1 ms. adds: and addressed the favorite wife (mistress) who travels by his side), …”
“And told of those times before the Flood
In his city, Uruk, he made the walls, which formed a rampart stretching on
And the temple called Eanna, which was the house of An, the Sky God
And also of Inanna, Goddess of Love and Battle
Look at it even now: where cornice runs on outer wall shining brilliant copper -see,
There is no inner wall; it has no equal.
Touch the threshold – ancient.
Approach the palace called Eanna (Anu‘s ziggurat / residence in Uruk).
There lives Inanna, Goddess of Love and Battle (Goddess of Love & War) …”
“She had captured E-ana from An!
She secured it …….
Now Inanna speaks of the E-ana as the house that is the place of the lady.
The goddess who has attained her triumphant position,
Inanna who has attained her triumphant position, declares in the good place:
‘I have captured E-ana from An‘…”
“But holy Inanna had gathered up the divine powers (MEs taken from Enki) and embarked onto the Boat of Heaven.
The Boat of Heaven had already left the quay …”
“‘My master has spoken to me, Enki has said to me:
‘Inanna may travel to Unug (Uruk), but you are to get the Boat of Heaven back to Eridug for me.’
Holy Inanna spoke to the (Enki‘s) minister Isimud:
‘How could my father have changed what he said to me?’ …”
(Enki speaking):
“Inana, you heap up human heads like piles of dust, you sow heads like seed.
Inana, you destroy what should not be destroyed; you create what should not be created.
You remove the cover from the cem drum of lamentations,
Maiden Inana, while shutting up the tigi and adab instruments in their homes.
You never grow weary with admirers looking at you.
Maiden Inana, you know nothing of tying the ropes on deep wells …”
“Inanna...lady, fit for battle,
who, as the heroine of the battleground,
makes the troops dance the dance of Inanna — …”
“the goddess of the numerous me (alien technologies), holy Inanna,
has brought to Aratta, the mountain of the shining me,
I whom she has let bar the entrance of the mountains as if with a great door …”
“The great queen of heaven, who rides upon the awesome me (alien technologies),
dwelling on the peaks of the bright mountains (ziggurats / temples / residences),
adorning the dais of the bright mountains — …”
“So high did the water go that even the gods scrambled for mountain so high
And cringed like rain whipped dogs in the storm.
Eanna did cry like a birthing mom:
‘This is not what I thought would be when I did bring to council my complaints.
Now the humans are like fish but still as if out of river had they gone on to stony ground.’
The Annunaki wept with her in regret …”
“Inanna abandoned heaven, abandoned earth, and descended to the underworld.
She abandoned the office of en, abandoned the office of lagar, and descended to the underworld.
She abandoned the E-ana (Anu‘s temple – residence) in Unug (Uruk), and descended to the underworld.
She abandoned the E-muc-kalama in Bad-tibira, and descended to the underworld.
She abandoned the Giguna in Zabalam, and descended to the underworld.
She abandoned the E-cara (temples – residences) in Adab, and descended to the underworld.
She abandoned the Barag-dur-jara in Nibru (Nippur), and descended to the underworld.
She abandoned the Hursaj-kalama in Kic (Kish), and descended to the underworld.
She abandoned the E- Ulmac in Agade (Akkad), and descended to the underworld.
(1 ms. adds 8 lines:
She abandoned the Ibgal in Umma, and descended to the underworld.
She abandoned the E- Dilmuna in Urim (Ur), and descended to the underworld.
She abandoned the Amac-e-kug in Kisiga, and descended to the underworld.
She abandoned the E-ecdam-kug in Jirsu, and descended to the underworld.
She abandoned the E-sig-mece-du in Isin, and descended to the underworld.
She abandoned the Anzagar in Akcak, and descended to the underworld.
She abandoned the Nijin-jar-kug in Curuppag (Shuruppak), and descended to the underworld.
She abandoned the E-cag-hula in Kazallu, and descended to the underworld) …”
“Inanna, Ishtar, Astarte, many are your names.
But I know You as the Eternal Moment in Me (Etana), my Soul Counterpart,
Lover and Beloved as One, …”
“Inanna (i.e. the evening star) (Venus, the eighth planet in from outer space, 8-pointed star symbol of Inanna),
the daughter of Suen (Sin / Nannar), arose before him (Lugalbanda) like a bull in the Land.
Her brilliance, like that of holy Cara (Shara, Inanna & Shu-Sin’s son),
her stellar brightness illuminated for him the mountain cave…”
“at evening, the radiant star, the Venus star, the great light which fills the holy heavens,
the lady of the evening, ascends above like a warrior, the people in all the lands lift their gaze to her. …
As the lady, admired by the Land, the lone star,
the Venus star, the lady (8-pointed star of Inanna) elevated as high as the heaven,
ascends above like a warrior, all the lands tremble before her …….
The faithful black-headed people bow to her. …”
“Now when Inanna, the Lady of the Gods, arrived,
She lifted up the magnificent jewels which An the Great god
Had made according to her desire, and said:
‘O ye gods here present!
Just as surely as I shall not forget
The lapis lazuli around my neck,
So shall I remember these days,
Never forgetting them.
Let the gods come to the offering.
But let not Enlil come to the offering;
For he, unreasoning, brought on the deluge
And delivered my people over to destruction!’ …”
“Culgi, the mighty king, ……, who exults in his triumph, the ……
king vanquished the rebellious land with the agakar weapon of Inana. …”
“Inana (Inanna), the great daughter of Suen (Nannar / Sin)
and Ur-Ninurta’s beloved spouse (mixed-breed offspring made king), …”
Anunitu Quotes From Texts
Anunitu = Inanna, Nannar‘s daughter
“O Anunitu, great lady, when you joyfully enter that temple,
look joyfully upon my good deeds and every month, at sunrise and sunset,
petition Sin, your father, your begetter, for favors on my behalf …”
“They called Gerra (Shara / Cara), Anunitu´s son …”
“For Anunitu -the lady of warfare (Goddess of War), who carries the bow and the quiver,
who fulfills the command of Enlil her father (grandfather), who annihilates the enemy, who destroys the evil one…
I caused her to establish her residence …”
Astarte Quote From Text
Astarte = Inanna
“Inanna, Ishtar, Astarte, many are your names.
But I know You as the Eternal Moment in Me …”
Beltis Quotes From Texts
Beltis = Inanna sometimes
= Ninlil sometimes
As Inanna:
“In those days the pavement of the house of Ishtar, my lady,
with squared stone well-hewn its fabric I made great for ever.
Beltis (Ishtar / Inanna), may this pavement be accepted before thee! …”
“Beltis (Inanna), lady of the lands, who dwells in E-barbar …”
“E-barbar, the house (temple – residence) of Ishtar (Inanna) of Nineveh …”
“a temple to Ninip my Lord I therein founded;
when an image of Ninip (Ninurta) himself which had not been made before,
in the reverence of my heart for his great mighty god-ship,
of mountain stone and brilliant gold I caused to make in its completeness;…
an altar to Ninip my Lord I therein consecrated: a temple for Beltis (Inanna), Sin (Nannar), and Gulanu (Bau / Gula),
Hea-Manna (Enki) and Yav (Adad) great ruler of heaven and earth …”
Innin / Innini Quote From Text
Innin / Innini = Inanna, Nannar‘s daughter
twin to Utu, younger sister to Ereshkigal
“’I, the holy Inanna: where are my functions?’
Enki answers his daughter (granddaughter), the holy Inanna:
‘What did I keep from you? Innin, what did I keep from you?
What more could we add to you?
Young Inanna, what did I keep from you?’ …”
Irnini Quote From Text
Irnini = Inanna, Nannar‘s daughter, Dumuzi‘s spouse
“And Irnini, Goddess of Love, holy Inanna had her throne seat …”
Ishara / Ishtar / Inanna Quotes From Texts
Ishara / Ishtar / Inanna = Enki‘s daughter-in-law
“Ishtar (Inanna), lady of battle …”
“Ishtar in the house of the father-in-law,
let there be rejoicing for nine days; let them call Ishtar Ishara (Inanna) …”
“Ishtar (Inanna) shrieked like a woman in childbirth, the sweet-voiced Mistress of the Gods wailed:
‘The olden days have alas turned to clay, because I said evil things in the Assembly of the Gods!
How could I say evil things in the Assembly of the Gods, ordering a catastrophe to destroy my people!!
No sooner have I given birth to my dear people than they fill the sea like so many fish!’
The gods–those of the Anunnaki–were weeping with her,
the gods humbly sat weeping, sobbing with grief(?), their lips burning, parched with thirst. …”
“For Ishara (Inanna) the bed of night (?) / marriage (?) is ready, for Gilgamesh as for a god a counterpart(!) is set up.
Enkidu blocked the entry to the marital chamber, and would not allow Gilgamreh to be brought in. …”
Lugal-ane Quotes From Texts
Lugal-ane = Inanna, daughter to Nannar & Ningal
“(Enheduanna speaks):
In connection with the purification rites of holy An (Anu), Lugal-ane has altered everything of his,
and has stripped An of the E-ana (Anu‘s ziggurat – residence in Uruk) …”
“Suen (Nannar / Sin), tell An (Anu) about Lugal-ane and my fate!
May An undo it for me!
As soon as you tell An about it, An will release me.
The woman will take the destiny away from Lugal-ane; …”
Ninegala Quotes From Texts
Ninegala = Inanna, Utu‘s twin
Goddess of Love & War
“Ninegala takes her seat high on its lapis-lazuli dais.
She keeps an eye on the judgments and decisions, distinguishing true and false … “
“Inana, you go into the interior of heaven like your father Suen (Nannar / Sin);
Ninegala, you appear like moonlight in your shrine the Ibgal, … “
“Inana, when you give judgment with An (Anu) and Enlil;
Ninegala, when you decide destinies on earth with Enki, … “
“Inana, you are the lady of all the divine powers, and no deity can compete with you.
Here is your dwelling, Ninegala; let me tell of your grandeur! …”
“in heaven, Inana, you diffuse awesomeness like fire,
and when on earth, Ninegala, you screech like a falcon, then you …… in play and dancing …”
“Thus Inanna treated him tenderly.
He who knows the joyful heart of Ninegala sheared a black kid, …”
“The palace is a forest, and the king is a lion;
like Ninegala (an epithet of Inanna) he covers men with a huge battle-net……. genitals …”
“Inana (Inanna), let us talk it over!
Inana, don’t provoke a quarrel!
Ninegala, let us discuss it together! …”
Ninsiana / Ninsianna Quotes From Texts
Ninsiana = Inanna, Nannar’s & Ningal’s daughter
twin to Utu, younger sister to Ereshkigal
Inana and Iddin-Dagan Text
“she goes to) the thighs of (King) Iddin-Dagan.
Holy Inana rubs herself with soap;…
A cirnamursaja of Ninsiana …”
“My noble sister, the holy Ninisinna got the suba-jewel,
is now the lover of An (Anu), inciting the heart’s desires …”
Ninni Quotes From Texts
Ninni / Inanna = daughter to Nannar, spouse Dumuzi
& many mixed-breed kings
“The city of Aridu (Eridu), the strong city of Ninni, …”
“To the goddess Ninni, the mistress of the world,
to his lady, Gudea the architect (?), the patesi Of Shirpurla,
who the temple of E-ninnû of the god Nin-girsu (Ninurta) has constructed
After that the goddess Ninni her favorable regard had cast upon him,
Gudea, the patesi Of Shirpurla, a man endowed with large understanding,
a servant to his mistress devoted, to make the tablet-like amulets (?) has ordered (?);
of the ka-al he has caused the splendor to shine …”
“The favorite temple (of the goddess), the temple of E-anna in Girsu-ki, he has built.
From the mountains of the land of Mâgan a rare stone he has imported; for her statue he has caused it to be cut.
‘Of Gudea, the builder of the temple may she prolong the life!’
by this name he has named it (i.e. the statue), and in the temple of E-anna he has placed it.
Whoever from the temple of E-anna shall remove it, shall break it, (or) shall efface its inscription,
may the goddess Ninni, the mistress of the world, from top to bottom overthrow him! …”
“may the goddess Ninni the lady of battles, …”
“For the goddess Ninni, the mistress of the world,
for his mistress, Gudea the patesi of Shirpurla her temple of E-anna in Girsu-ki has constructed …”
“For the goddess Ninni, the lady august, the sovereign (?),
her temple of Gishgalla-ki he (Ur-Bau) has constructed. …”
“Ur-Bau the patesi of Shirpurla-ki, the offspring begotten by the god Nin-âgal (Enki‘s son),
chosen by the immutable will of the goddess Niná (Enki‘s daughter),
endowed with power by the god Nin-girsu (Ninurta),
named with a favorable name by the goddess Bau (Gula, Ninurta’s spouse),
endowed with intelligence by the god En-ki, covered with renown by the goddess Ninni, …”