Another recent interpretation by Clyde Hostetter indicates that the myth is an allegorical report of related movements of the planets Venus, Mercury,and Jupiter; and those of the waxing crescent Moon in the Second Millenium, beginning with the Spring Equinox and concluding with a meteor shower near the end of one synodic period of Venus.
Inanna gave birth to her first child last September, and her Instagram followers continue to be amazed that her body contained a whole other human mere months ago.
The reason she gives to the gatekeeper of the underworld is that she wants to attend her brother-in-law 's funeral rites.
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After its dedication to Inanna the temple seems to have housed priestesses of the goddess.
Her cuneiform ideogram was a hook-shaped twisted knot of reeds, representing the doorpost of the storehouse and thus fertility and plenty.