Woow... I thought
Inanna was just a name, chosen by the creator of the game at random... Well, it seems that Wikipedia really knows something about an ancient Mesopotamian goddess named
Inanna (or
Ishtar)...
" Inanna is an
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associated with love, beauty, sex, war, justice and political power. She was originally worshiped in
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under the name "Inanna", and was later worshipped by the
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,
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, and
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under the name
Ishtar. There is also evidence that Inanna was a worshipped deity of
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of
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. She was known as the "
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" and was the patron goddess of the
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temple at the city of
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, which was her main
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center. She was associated with the planet
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and her most prominent symbols included the
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and the
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. Her husband was the god
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(later known as Tammuz) and her
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, or personal attendant, was the goddess
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(who later became conflated with the male deities
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and
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).
Inanna was worshiped in
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at least as early as the
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(c. 4000 BC – c. 3100 BC), but she had little cult activity before the conquest of
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. During the post-Sargonic era, she became one of the most widely venerated deities in the Sumerian pantheon, with temples across
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. The cult of Inanna/Ishtar, which may have been associated with a variety of
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, was continued by the
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-speaking people (
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,
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and
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) who succeeded and absorbed the Sumerians in the region. She was especially beloved by the
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, who elevated her to become the highest deity in their pantheon, ranking above their own
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. Inanna/Ishtar is alluded to in the
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and she greatly influenced the
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and later
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, who in turn possibly influenced the development of the Greek goddess
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. Her cult continued to flourish until its gradual decline between the first and sixth centuries AD in the wake of
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.
Inanna appears in more myths than any other Sumerian deity. She also had a uniquely high number of epithets and alternate names, comparable only to
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. Many of her myths involve her taking over the domains of other deities. She was believed to have stolen the
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, which represented all positive and negative aspects of civilization, from
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, the god of wisdom. She was also believed to have taken over the Eanna temple from
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, the god of the sky. Alongside her twin brother
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(later known as Shamash), Inanna was the enforcer of
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; she destroyed Mount Ebih for having challenged her authority, unleashed her fury upon the gardener
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after he
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her in her sleep, and tracked down the bandit woman Bilulu and killed her in
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for having murdered Dumuzid. In the standard
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version of the
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, Ishtar asks
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to become her consort. When he refuses, she unleashes the
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, resulting in the death of
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and Gilgamesh's subsequent grapple with his mortality.
Inanna/Ishtar's most famous myth is the story of her descent into and return from
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, the
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, a myth in which she attempts to conquer the domain of her older sister
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, the queen of the underworld, but is instead deemed guilty of
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by the
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and struck dead. Three days later, Ninshubur pleads with all the gods to bring Inanna back, but all of them refuse her except Enki, who sends two sexless beings to rescue Inanna. They escort Inanna out of the underworld, but the
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, the guardians of the underworld, drag her husband Dumuzid down to the Underworld as her replacement. Dumuzid is eventually permitted to return to heaven for half the year while his sister
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remains in the underworld for the other half, resulting in the cycle of the seasons. This is similar to some aspects of Greek myths of the abduction of Persephone "....
(see the whole article on Wikipedia, if you are curious to know more about it)..
) It's kind of spoilery to ask but
