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Not going to discuss this with an expert since I am not one.As a guy who got a Master in History, made a few archive researches reading and collecting historical documents, and read thousands and thousands of scholarly books and academic journals, I'll tell you that amateurs should stop believing that weird theories are facts.
FACTS are facts, and speculations are speculations. As a historian, I always stick with facts ( = documents) and I think that most anthropological theories like the trans-cultural diffusion theory are just a busload of really questionable ideological theories.
Isis is for sure not a copy of Inanna, hell one might even say there are major changes in Inanna herself already in history of Mesopotamia and pretty conflicting myths. Considering some of the myths though in Egyptian culture, it is unlikely that those myths surrounding Inanna did not influence theirs. Whether that was directly or by a shared even earlier origin of those myths or a third party with similar myths that influenced the Egyptians, who knows. It is not like we know that much yet of very early Egyptian culture or pre-Egypt either and are still learning partly due to there not being documents and even if some are there they tend to be declarations of very powerful rich people with their own political motives and better be careful to take them at face value.
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