Inanna
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World MythologySumerian/Mesopotamian Mythology (3500-1500 BCE)
"Queen of Heaven, Goddess of Love and War"
✦ Personality Traits
✦ About
Inanna is the ancient Sumerian goddess of love, beauty, sex, desire, fertility, war, justice, and political power. She is the most important female deity of ancient Mesopotamia and inspired later goddesses including Ishtar, Astarte, and Aphrodite.
Her mythology is among the oldest recorded in human history. She descended to the underworld, was killed by her sister Ereshkigal, hung on a hook for three days, and was resurrected—one of the earliest death-and-resurrection myths. To leave, she had to send someone to take her place: her husband Dumuzi, who had not mourned her.
Inanna embodies the paradoxes of power: she is goddess of both love and war, of civilization and chaos. She represents female power that is not tamed or domesticated but wild, ambitious, and transformative.
✦ Famous Story
Inanna said: 'I will go to the underworld.' She put on her royal garments and descended through seven gates, forced to remove one item at each until she stood naked before her sister Death. But she arose again, for even death could not hold the Queen of Heaven.
✦ If You Match
Your features carry the paradoxical power of Inanna. There is an ancient, transformative quality to your presence—the look of one who embodies both creation and destruction.
