As early as the Uruk period (ca. 4000 to 3100 BCE) it would appear Inanna was associated with the city of Uruk. The famous Uruk Vase, found in a deposit of cult objects of the Uruk III period, depicts a row of naked men carrying various objects, bowls, vessels, and baskets of farm produce, and bringing sheep and goats, to a female figure facing the ruler, ornately dressed for a divine marriage, and attended by a servant. The female figure holds the symbol of the two twisted reeds of the doorpost signifying Inanna behind her, while the male figure holds a box and stack of bowls, the later cuneiform sign signifying En, or high priest of the temple.
She figures prominently in one of the earliest legends, Enmerkar and the Lord of Aratta, in something like a kingmaker role, transferring her personal abode and favour, and thus hegemony, from the court of Aratta's king to that of Uruk. Seal impressions from the Jemdet Nasr period (ca. 3100-2900 BCE) show a fixed sequence of city symbols including those of Ur, Larsa, Zabalam, Urum, Arina, and probably Kesh. It is likely that this list reflects the report of contributions to Inanna at Uruk from cities supporting her cult. A large number of similar sealings were found from the slightly later Early Dynastic I phase at Ur, in a slightly different order, combined with the rosette symbol of Inanna, that were definitely used for this purpose. They had been used to lock storerooms to preserve materials set aside for her cult. Inanna's name is commonly derived from Nin-anna "Queen of Heaven" (from Sumerian NIN "lady", AN "sky"), although the cuneiform sign for her name is not historically a ligature of the two. In some traditions Inanna was said to be a granddaughter of the creator goddess Nammu or Namma. These difficulties have led some early Assyriologists to suggest that Inanna may have been originally a Proto-Euphratean goddess, possibly related to the Hurrian mother goddess Hannahannah, accepted only latterly into the Sumerian pantheon, an idea supported by her youthfulness, and that, unlike the other Sumerian divinities, she at first had no sphere of responsibilities. The view that there was a Proto-Euphratean substrate language in Southern Iraq before Sumerian is not widely accepted by modern Assyriologists.
Print sources
Bottéro and Kramer 1989, p. 257-271: translation, commentary Volk 1995: composite text, score transliteration, commentary, handcopy, translation
Electronic sources
Black 1997e: translation Civil 1989h: composite text Krecher 1996a: composite text, translation Krecher 1998: score transliteration Volk 1993: composite text, score transliteration
Cuneiform sources
N 3551 (Tf. 1); provenance: Nippur Ni 9616 (ISET 1 175); provenance: Nippur Ni 4523 (ISET 2 11) + Ni 4575 (ISET 1 148) + Ni 9609 (ISET 2 11); provenance: Nippur CBS 10305 + 10315 + 10393 + 10401 + 10407 + 10413 + N 3068 + Ni 9732 + Ni 9763 (Tf. 2-3); provenance: Nippur CBS 10317 (Tf. 4); provenance: Nippur N 3537 (Tf. 4); provenance: Nippur Ni 9721 (ISET 2 8-10) + Ni 9564 (Tf. 4) + Ni 9748 (ISET 2 53); provenance: Nippur Ni 9541 (ISET 1 171) + Ni 9608 (ISET 1 174); provenance: Nippur UET VI/3 15 + 116 + 171 + 179 + 296 (Tf. 5); provenance: Ur UET VI/3 129a (Tf. 6); provenance: Ur UET VI/3 79 (Tf. 6) CBS 13881 (STVC 30); provenance: Nippur N 2830 (Tf. 4); provenance: Nippur CBS 11682 (Tf. 4); provenance: Nippur 3NT 407 (Tf. 7); provenance: Nippur
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Mesopotamia (Sumerians, first civilization on earth)by LIGHTOFPERSIA268,525 views
@Maximus8598095 it was, common thing of all religions is that we have been CREATED BY SOMEONE ELSE
bsdpowa 4 months ago
If you consider the Bible Was based on Ancient Summerian Text.. 5 stars
Maximus8598095 2 years ago