Download or read book The Biography of Goddess Inanna Indomitable Queen of Heaven Earth and Almost Everything written by Sandra Bart Heimann and published by Balboa Press. This book was released on 2016-09-29 with total page 587 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When stars were many and people few, a great story was told everywhere. The first storytellers were women. Their story was so large it filled the universe it told of a Great Mother encompassing life, death and return of everything. When Neolithic farming people settled, and depended on plentiful crops and herds, a goddess of fertility stepped into stardom. Inanna is the Sumerian goddess of love, crescent moon, evening star, fertility and renewal. She is the longest lasting supreme goddess of the Ancient Near East. Inannas biography includes her rise to supreme holder of almost all the powers of culture and civilization. 5000 year old poems bring Inanna to life. She sings to her miraculous vulva and to her consort-lover; she struggles to keep her powers and complains of her losses and demotions. Inanna represents lifes powerful contradictions. She changes peace to war and back again; she causes strife and brings love; she turns women into men and men into women. Inanna loves all her people, every one. A biography must have adversity and Inanna has plenty; she must always conquer of the ever-rising tide of patriarchal domination in all its forms. Buried and forgotten for two millennia, she now steps from the dust, ties up her sandals, applies her kohl, adjusts her tiara, summons her lions, and returns. Her story is also womans story. Let me introduce you to Inanna, Queen of Heaven, Earth, and almost everything

Download or read book Inanna Queen of Heaven and Earth written by Diane Wolkstein and published by HarperCollins Publishers. This book was released on 1983 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Download or read book Inanna written by Diane Wolkstein and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 1983-08-03 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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

Download or read book Encyclopedia of Women in World Religions 2 volumes written by Susan de-Gaia and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2018-11-16 with total page 902 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This reference offers reliable knowledge about women's diverse faith practices throughout history and prehistory, and across cultures. Across the span of human history, women have participated in world-building and life-sustaining cultural creativity, making enormous contributions to religion and spirituality. In the contemporary period, women have achieved greater equality, with more educational opportunities, female role models in public life, and opportunities for religious expression than ever before. Contemporaneously with this increased visibility, women are actively and energetically engaging with religion for themselves and for their communities. Drawing on the expertise of a range of scholars, this reference chronicles the religious experiences of women across time and cultures. The book includes sections on major religions as well as on spirituality, African religions, prehistoric religions, and other broad topics. Each section begins with an introduction, followed by reference entries on specialized subjects along with excerpts from primary source documents. The entries provide numerous suggestions for further reading, and the book closes with a detailed bibliography.

Download or read book Inanna Lady of Heaven and Earth written by Henriette Broekema and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inanna was the great goddess of the Sumerians, a people who lived 5000 year ago in the place we know today as Iraq where was created the first urban civilization in human history. Inanna, the goddess of sexual love and connected with the planet Venus was responsible for the fertility of the land and the later goddesses, the Greek Aphrodite and the Roman Venus adopted many aspects of Inanna. The kings worshipped Inanna and celebrated with her the Sacred Marriage rite, but they also needed her help during the many wars they were waging, which gave Inanna the aspects of a warrior goddess. As love goddess Inanna had a passionate love life and her great love was the shepherd Dumuzi, not a god, but a mortal human who wandered about the steppe with his cattle. The peasants sang love songs about Inanna and Dumuzi during the many feasts of the successive agricultural seasons, believing that their love affair stimulated the fertility of the crops and the fecundity of the livestock. But their idyll was not to last for long as Dumuzi was gruesomely murdered. The answer to the question of who killed Dumuzi and why, is hidden deep in the history of the ancient agrarian communities. The Sumerians wrote their texts on clay tablets that once dried could be preserved until our own day and thanks to this miraculous piece of luck we can cognizance of a number of magnificent hymns and myths written about Inanna. These archaic texts call up human emotions that find an answering response in the hearts of people today and are still capable of moving us deeply. In this book the myths are told against the back ground of Sumerian civilization and various aspects of society from this time are also discussed, such as convent life, divine kingship and funeral rites. One aspect of the funeral rites was The Great Wailing, a rite in which Inanna had an important role and which appears to have been performed in many countries around the Mediterranean in the Bronze Age and has left traces even in the Old and New Testament. Henriette Broekema's book makes the complex character and history of goddess Inanna accessible to the ordinary reader and based on the texts from that time, in twenty six richly illustrated chapters, she succeeds in bringing the astonishing world of the goddess Inanna to life. Bron: Flaptekst, uitgeversinformatie.

Download or read book Inanna The Queen of Heaven and Earth written by Nichole Muir and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2023-09-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Embark on a transformative journey with one of the most revered goddesses in human history. Through the pages of "Inanna - The Queen of Heaven and Earth", you'll not only discover the ancient tales of a powerful deity but also unlock the hidden wisdom she holds for the modern seeker. Dive deep into the mysteries of personal transformation, spiritual evolution, and the divine duality that exists within us all. Enriched with tales, teachings, and meditations, this book encourages you to delve into your own soul, uncover your inner divinities, and emerge as a beacon of empowerment and enlightenment. Let Inanna guide you through layers of self-awareness to a realm of profound connection. Elevate your spiritual journey. Rediscover yourself with "Inanna - The Queen of Heaven and Earth". Secure your copy today and immerse yourself in ancient wisdom for the modern world.

Download or read book Crop Circles and Goddess Inanna Queen of Heaven and Earth written by Steve Canada and published by . This book was released on 2001-07-01 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Crop Circles and the Returning Goddess Inanna Queen of Heaven and Earth written by Steve Canada and published by . This book was released on 1994-01-01 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Inanna written by Kim Echlin and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stories about the goddess Inanna showing her growth from child to adult with great powers for good and ill.

Download or read book Daring to Discover written by and published by Fastprint Publishing. This book was released on 2010-12-22 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inanna was the most important deity of ancient Sumeria, the land now called Iraq. She was revered as the goddess of fertility, of rhythm and the seasons. She represents many opposites, light and dark, life and death, body and spirit, passivity and action.

Download or read book From the Great Above She Opened Her Ear to the Great Below written by Tim Lilburn and published by Coldstream [Ont.] : Brick Books. This book was released on 1988 with total page 39 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this collaboration, which can be viewed as two visions in dialogue, Shantz and Lilburn each focus on the story of the Sumerian goddess Inanna, who descends from her throne in heaven to the underworld. After being killed there by her sister, Inanna is reborn to return transformed, with her adornments no longer external but "formed by the scars of her healed wounds" (Shantz), a new Inanna who is also "a new physics" (Lilburn). By dramatizing the myth of the female dying-and- rising divinity in Lilburn's poetic sequence and a series of colour photographs of Shantz's room-sized constructions, the book offers us all access to the roots of feminine power in our lives.

Download or read book Inanna s Descent written by Christine Andreae and published by Blurb. This book was released on 2018-12 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inanna's descent to the underworld; a Sumerian myth.

Download or read book The Queen of Heaven a New Interpretation of the Goddess in Ancient Near Eastern Art written by Gavin White and published by . This book was released on 2013-10 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The Queen of Heaven' is a step-by-step guide to the symbolism of the so-called 'fertility religions' of the antique worlds. With over 150 illustrations, it is the indispensable guide to the nature and meaning of many of the major symbols found in ancient art and mythology.

Download or read book Anat Yahu The Queen of Heaven written by A. P. Wolf and published by FeedARead.com. This book was released on 2019-04-15 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A historical and sometimes spiritual journey of intense exploration through the ancient Near-East in an attempt to find and truly understand the 'Queen of Heaven' in her many guises as Ururu, Inanna, Ishtar, Asherah, Astarte and Anat; where the journey begins in a remote Jewish temple on the island of Elephantine in southern Egypt where the Jewish mercenaries stationed there worshipped a deity known to them as The Queen of Heaven, Anat-Yahu; and then traces the origins and aspirations of the Queen of Heaven and her many faithful followers from those ancient times. Disdained, denied and even sometimes demonised by the vast majority of historians, biblical scholars and the translators of the modern Bible; this volume shows how the Queen of Heaven was venerated and worshipped by some of the greatest civilisations known to us from that time; and that even some of the greatest kings that ever ruled the region were utterly devoted to her as their personal 'Queen of Heaven'.

Download or read book The Well of Loneliness written by Radclyffe Hall and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2015-04-24 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This early work by Radclyffe Hall was originally published in 1928 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. 'The Well of Loneliness' is a novel that follows an upper-class Englishwoman who falls in love with another woman while serving as an ambulance driver in World War I. Marguerite Radclyffe Hall was born on 12th August 1880, in Bournemouth, England. Hall's first novel The Unlit Lamp (1924) was a lengthy and grim tale that proved hard to sell. It was only published following the success of the much lighter social comedy The Forge (1924), which made the best-seller list of John O'London's Weekly. Hall is a key figure in lesbian literature for her novel The Well of Loneliness (1928). This is her only work with overt lesbian themes and tells the story of the life of a masculine lesbian named Stephen Gordon.

Download or read book Goddesses Elixirs and Witches written by J. Riddle and published by Springer. This book was released on 2010-02-15 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the earliest times, the medicinal properties of certain herbs were connected with deities, particularly goddesses. Only now with modern scientific research can we begin to understand the basisand rationality that these divine connections had and, being preserved in myths and religious stories, they continued to have a significant impact through the present day. Riddle argues that the pomegranate, mandrake, artemisia, and chaste tree plants substantially altered thedevelopment of medicine and fertility treatments.The herbs, once sacred to Inanna, Aphrodite, Demeter, Artemis, and Hermes, eventually came to be associated with darker forces, representing theinstruments of demons and witches. Riddle's ground-breaking work highlights the important medicinalhistory thatwas lost and argues for itsrightful place as one of the predecessors

Download or read book Le Deuxi me Sexe written by Simone de Beauvoir and published by Vintage. This book was released on 1989 with total page 791 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The classic manifesto of the liberated woman, this book explores every facet of a woman's life.