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A fresh retelling of the ancient texts about Ishtar, the world's first goddess. Illustrated with visual artifacts of the period. "A great masterpiece of universal literature."--Mircea Eliade
Author : Diane Wolkstein
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 35,41 MB
Release : 1983-08-03
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0060908548
A fresh retelling of the ancient texts about Ishtar, the world's first goddess. Illustrated with visual artifacts of the period. "A great masterpiece of universal literature."--Mircea Eliade
Author : V. S. Ferguson
Publisher : Thel Dar Publishing
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 14,61 MB
Release : 1995-01-01
Category : Science fiction
ISBN : 9780964727618
Author : Enheduanna
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 47,46 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780292752429
Around 2,300 BC Enheduanna was high priestess to the moon god Nanna at his temple in Ur, a position she held for almost forty years. This volume translates Enheduanna's three devotional poems to the goddess Inanna accompanied by an extensive commentary and discussion which places these highly personal and unique expressions within the context of Sumerian culture and religion. The author highlights the importance of the poems and the princess for our understanding of the place of women in Near Eastern society and religion.
Author : Diane Wolkstein
Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 16,46 MB
Release : 1983
Category : Religion
ISBN :
A fresh retelling of the ancient texts about Ishtar, the world's first goddess. Illustrated with visual artifacts of the period. "A great masterpiece of universal literature."--Mircea Eliade Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
Author : Judy Grahn
Publisher :
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 32,79 MB
Release : 2021-05-25
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781643620763
Path-breaking lesbian storyteller & scholar Judy Grahn explores poetry written over four thousand years ago on the life and loves of the great goddess Inanna
Author : Rob Vollmar
Publisher : Archaia
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 38,77 MB
Release : 2011-02-22
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781932386790
In Sumer, before the rise of the kingship, the prosperous city of Birith is known throughout the land for its devotion to the goddess Inanna. But after a thousand years of plenty, the city is in danger of being overrun by the nomadic refugees that swell in number outside of its walls. Even as her high priest makes plans to preside over his final ritual to Inanna and name a successor, powerful interests outside of the city begin to question the wisdom of continuing to submit to the Temple’s authority. When the role of consort is passed unexpectedly to a woman named Entika, she must overcome not only the prejudices of her own people but a cunning enemy backed by the rising tide of history. Collects and completes the Inanna's Tears series, a proto-historical, romantic tragedy in five acts, 5,000 years in the making.
Author : Kim Echlin
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 22,83 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Inanna (Sumerian deity)
ISBN : 9780888994967
Stories about the goddess Inanna showing her growth from child to adult with great powers for good and ill.
Author : William W. Hallo
Publisher :
Page : 101 pages
File Size : 26,58 MB
Release : 1968
Category : Sumerian language
ISBN :
Author : SR Brown
Publisher : SR Brown
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 11,79 MB
Release : 2019-01-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
This shape-shifter is back and ready to fight even more gods. After becoming Inanna’s champion, Val is an ordinary starchild in an ordinary cult with ordinary humans. The war over and branded with a star on their shoulder to mark them as her personal fighter. While the outside of the temple looks as if it could fall under the slightest breeze, inside is teeming with women and eunuchs serving the goddess. The roof garden is full of life and a lazy river in the temple perfect for relaxation. The strays that roam the streets and ships that fly in the night sky kind of the same as the forest back home. It’s not the worst life while waiting to learn what battle they might fight next. But things change when a woman is found dumped at the door. Nearly beaten to death and Inanna the only one who has the power to save her in time, a starchild’s world is about to become a lot more violent, again. The human speaks of a man nicknamed “Jackie” taking prostitutes off the street as part of a game. The closer to dying, the more points earned. A rumor he competes against others in a twisted competition. But when it seems that is the worst Jackie could do, he murders his family and goes missing. When Inanna’s twin and god of the sun and justice teams up for divine law and order, it becomes far worse than they ever imagined. The one man with a knife quickly turning into five gods and a demented plan they can only guess what the end goal is.
Author : Sarah Iles Johnston
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 750 pages
File Size : 19,14 MB
Release : 2004-11-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674015173
This groundbreaking, first basic reference work on ancient religious beliefs collects and organizes available information on ten ancient cultures and traditions, including Greece, Rome, and Mesopotamia, and offers an expansive, comparative perspective on each one.