Inanna

Practically all sculptures were used for religious rituals or religious adornment. “The Warka Vase, is the oldest ritual vase carved of stone… dated approximately 3000 BCE”(“Sumerian”). The vase depicts men coming into the presence of the cult goddess Inanna. She is represented by two piles of bounded reeds placed side by side resembling a temple entrance.…

Enheduanna hit rock bottom and decides to use the hierarchy of the gods to promote her own agenda because she does not care about Inanna or the gods in general. When power, prestige, and lifestyle are stripped away from her, Enheduanna responds shockingly: “My Nanna has not decided my case. He has destroyed me utterly in renegade territory. Asimbabbar has certainly not pronounced a verdict on me. What is it to me if he has pronounced it? What is it to me if he has not pronounced it?” Her…

made a mistake of not worshipping, then he or she would suffer the consequences. Enki was the deity of the fresh water and he is praised for his wisdom (Schneider, 31). Enki was portrayed as a strong man with beards and water flowing around his body. Inanna was the goddess in charge of love, war and fertility. She was regarded as the most significant deity of other deities. Nanna was the god of the moon, and also the sun of Enlil and Ninlil. Nanna travels over the sky in his small boat which is…

culture believed that this existence was the final end for all living, and it was ruled by the dark Queen Ereshkigal. No Ghost was allowed to live the Irkalla for any reason, not even a goddess. This is proven in the poem The Descent Inanna, the Queen of Heaven, Inanna Must find a substitute to take her place once she ascends back to the world of the living, this kind of dispensation, was however given to ghosts who needed to complete some kind of mission. The Mesopotamian people believed that…

Sumer is known as one of the first recorded civilizations in human history. It was established in ancient Mesopotamia, in what is known today as modern day Iraq. Sumer was nestled in between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers in the Fertile Crescent. This stretch of land was completely isolated, with dry desert sands surrounding it in all directions. The date when this civilization was established is still unknown, and secular sources believe that it was between 6000-4000 BC. Many Christians…

Ancient civilizations have played a major part in the development of religion. From the land of the Aztecs to Greece, the different civilizations have various aspects that have made huge impact on their development. In particular, the Sumerian civilization has one aspect that makes it unique to the others. Their myths and spoken word creates explanation of how the world was created. While they are not the only civilization to use myths, Sumerian stories have yet to cease to exist. As stated…

Section A: Question 1 Enheduanna was the daughter of Sargon of Akkad. As a high priestess at the temple of Ur, she wrote a hymn of praise to Ishtar, or Inanna in Sumerian, the goddess of love and war. Enheduanna wrote a hymn about the Sumerian goddess Inanna because of the similarities between her and the Akkadian goddess, Ishtar. Although the Sumerians and the Akkadians were two separate cultures, they both worshipped a goddess of love and war. These similarities between the two goddesses…

pink banana? Turn out the light and move aside; my banana doesn’t share the spotlight. Now, watch it strip. A self-peeling banana with its own striptease music, kind of clever. Who’s the Burka Barbie? She’s my Inanna. The seven peels represent the seven veils. So you made an Inanna banana. I made her more than just a banana; take her home; she'll do much more than your boy band boy toy. Promise to try her. Sure, I’ll use her as a warm up act and Timberlake will handle the finale. She…

the sides. Another thing they believed was that the universe was born by the waters. The mesopotamians were also polytheistic, they believed in many gods. They worshiped four primary gods Anu, Enlil, Enki, and Ninhursag. Along with three sky gods Inanna/Ishtar, Nanna/Sin, and Utu/Shamash. The wind demon Pazuzu was used to protect women in childbirth even though he was an evil demon. As part of Mesopotamian religion, they fed daily meals for their god Anu and Uruk. It was a ritual that the god…

The Warka Vase is one of the earliest known examples of the Mesopotamian art. The piece of art is set to represent the offering the goddess Inanna, this is a ritual associated to the act and idea of a sacred marriage between a god or goddess and a mortal. In this piece of art it is believed that the vase depicts itself on the tiers of the narrative. It is seen in the first tier of the vase the offering which is a vase. Many believe that the vase being offered is the Warka vase. The vase also…