Christine Irving has taken on the archetypal myth of Inanna's descent/dismembering/and ascent through clear, readable poetry that brings the story to contemporary life. And then she guides readers through an intentional ritual designed for modern women to symbolically understand this myth in terms of their own life journeys. What a bold endeavor! If you just read this book, you'll gain tremendous insight. If you practice the ritual, you will be transformed.Christina Baldwin Author of Storycatcher, Making Sense of our Lives through the Power and Practice of StoryVisionary. Poetic. Fierce. Now this is how a goddess myth should appear. Savor this. It's a masterpiece. Normandi EllisAuthor of Awakening OsirisA return to Inanna is a return to self. This book in three modes spans the past, present and potentially your own future to demonstrate the sacred healing balm of ritual lamentation. I highly recommend this unique work that is both poetry and guidebook to your own journey of renewal. Read it aloud. Share it with others." Mary K. GreerAuthor of Women of the Golden Dawn: Rebels and Priestesses

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.

Presents information on Sitchins theories about the origins of mankind and the intervention of intelligence from beyond the Earth. He and the other contributors offer a scholarly approach to the ancient astronaut theory. Contains the complete transcript of the first Sitchin Studies Day, held in Denver, Colorado on Oct. 6, 1996. Following Sitchins detailed keynote address are six other prominent speakers whose work he has influenced. They include philosopher Neil Freer, UFO expert J. Antonio Huneeus, clergyman Father Charles Moore, author V. Susan Ferguson, and two university professors, Madeleine Briskin and Marlene Evans. They agree that certain myths were actual events instead of figments of imaginations. Sitchins work comprises the early part of a new paradigmone that is already beginning to shake the very foundations of religion, archaeology and our society in general.

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.

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