(Please read from the start)
“Family
Inanna's twin brother was Utu, the god of the sun and justice (who was later known as Shamash in East Semitic languages). In Sumerian texts, Inanna and Utu are shown as extremely close; some modern authors perceive it as bordering on incestuous. In the myth of her descent into the underworld, Inanna addresses Ereshkigal, the queen of the underworld, as her "older sister",but the two goddesses almost never appear together in Sumerian literature and weren't placed in the same category in god lists. In Uruk, Inanna was usually regarded as the daughter of the sky god An, but, in the Isin tradition, she is usually described as the daughter of the moon god Nanna (who was later known as Sin). In literary texts, she is sometimes described as the daughter of Enlil or the daughter of Enki. In some divine genealogies, Inanna/Ishtar is the sister of Ishkur (Hadad), the god of storms.”
>> When it comes to family ties between the Mesopotamian deities, it gets really complicated and very hard to see through. If I go down this tunnel, to try to entangle this complicated knot, I will not reach my goals. For now, I’m going to skip this and if I have time later on or need be, I will come back to it. I want anons to remember that not all deities in Mesopotamia are good or are bad, it depends to which clan they belonged to = whom they were following. Also, I would like to remind anons that Mesopotamia was the second geographic location where the Evil Lady settled in after the flood water receded. So be careful while working on this, it’s extremely complicated.
“Dumuzid (later known as Tammuz), the god of shepherds, is usually described as Inanna's husband, but Inanna's loyalty to him is questionable; in the myth of her descent into the Underworld, she abandons Dumuzid and permits the galla demons to drag him down into the underworld as her replacement, but in a different myth, The Return of Dumuzid Inanna paradoxically mourns over Dumuzid's death and ultimately decrees that he will be allowed to return to Heaven to be with her for one half of the year. Dina Katz notes that the portrayal of their relationship in Inanna's Descent is unusual; it doesn't resemble the portrayal of their relationship in other myths about Dumuzi's death, which almost never pin the blame for it on Inanna, but rather on demons or even human bandits. In Kish, the tutelary deity of the city, Zababa (a war god), was viewed as the consort of a local hyposthasis of Ishtar.”
>> I’ve already explained Inanna’s/The Evil Lady’s selfishness, so no surprise here. And I also suggested it’s possible, she fled since she was a coward, when the Cataclysm was triggered/started. This is another possible explanation why Dumuzi “died” and she refused to go “to death” herself = replace him. It’s true that she behaves as if she is not to blame or not responsible for his death. She behaves as if she has a clear conscious towards his death, feeling no guilt or responsibility. This is hard to explain because anons we don’t know for sure and exactly what took place back then. All I have talked about and explained are the big thick lines, not the details. I can put some events in a sequence, at least try to, but that’s the maximum I can push with what I’ve got. There are a lot of blind areas and a huge lack of information to get an accurate image as to what exactly happened when the King of king was murdered and the Cataclysm was triggered. I have the big picture, and that’s all.
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