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Inanna

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I·nan·na  (-nänä)
n. Mythology
The chief Sumerian goddess, associated with fertility, the natural world, and war, and later equated with the Babylonian Ishtar.
[Sumerian in-an-ak, lady of the sky : in, variant of nin, lady + an, sky + -ak, genitive suff.]
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Noun1.Inanna - consort of Dumuzi (Tammuz)
Sumer - an area in the southern region of Babylonia in present-day Iraq; site of the Sumerian civilization of city-states that flowered during the third millennium BC


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Tchana has chosen a nice range of tales, juxtaposing the bold enterprise and glorious self-enjoyment of Ancient Sumer's Inanna, for instance, with the self-sacrifice and abundant helpfulness of Buddhist goddess Kuan Yin.
Katrin Hyman Tchana, reteller: Changing Woman and Her Sisters: ... by Baker, Deirdre F. / The Horn Book Magazine
Inanna (Venus) dances between worlds, indestructible.
Belly dancing: the sacred art (and workout!) by Hubiak, Brandi / New Life Journal
The beautiful hymns, explicitly sexual, were also the basis of a re-enactment of this sexual union by the King and the Priestess of Inanna in a rite of fertility ushering in the rainy season.
Sex and mysticism by Gotz, Ignacio L. / Cross Currents
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