Showing posts with label Ereshkigal. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ereshkigal. Show all posts

Goddess Inanna

 




Inanna is the Sumerian goddess of love and battle.

Inanna was revered throughout Mesopotamia as the Queen of Heaven and Earth, and was known to the Babylonians as Ishtar.

She is the morning and evening stars, and she is a lunar deity.

Her seductive and sensuous abilities made her a symbol of fertility and mating rites.

Inanna, Ereshkigal's sister, enhances the light side of the soul by teaching knowledge and life and death magick.

She safeguarded her city and people as a battle goddess, delivering justice and enforcing the rules of the realm.

The lion and the eight-pointed star are her emblems.


~Kiran Atma



Goddess Ereshkigal



 

 

Goddess of the Underworld in Sumerian mythology.

Ereshkigal was revered across Mesopotamia, with the majority of her followers in Sumer and Babylon.

She is the goddess of Irkalla, the realm of the dead in the underworld.

Ereshkigal, Inanna/older Ishtar's sister and counterpart, symbolizes the dark, the unseen, the shadow aspect of the soul.

Only she has the ability to make laws, pronounce judgment, and wield power in the underworld.

Nergal is her consort, and their love tale is often celebrated in Mesopotamian hymns.

~Kiran Atma