GODS AND GODDESSES OF ANCIENT TIMES


 

 INANNA
IN ANCIENT LITERATURE
Part I
Sasha Lessin, Ph.D.
page 1 of 5
Based on the works of Zechariah Sitchin, Neal Freer and V. Susan Ferguson

     
     The historical Inanna (also known as Ishtar, Ashtoreth, Annutitum, Aphrodite, Athena, Venus, Eshdar, Innin,  Ninni, Kali and Shakti) was a pampered child, pet of the rulers of the heavens and Earth.  "Inanna by her parents, Nannar and Ningal was beloved, Enlil [Her Grandfather] by her cradle sat.  Beautiful beyond describing she was." 
[The Lost Book of Enki, Sitchin, 2002:250]


Irnini/Inanna refused to submit to men in the male-dominated culture of the Old World.   Her intense sexuality was one of the most potent forces on Earth.  She used her sexuality to seduce her way to land, castles, blueprints for civilization and power in Sumer and India and a seat on Earth’s Council of Twelve.   A ruthless warrior, she and her armies almost won rule of the entire planet.  In Inanna’s domains, women were honored; her priestesses practiced the tantric arts of sacred loving. 

 Inanna did not exalt partnership; she was a power player in the dominator consciousness of her culture and far from a paragon of the mutual respect of men and women demanded by modern tantra.   Instead, I use Inanna as a prototype of a universally adored child, a unique individual, an intensely emotional and sexual person and a model of assertiveness.

     Anu, ruler of Niburu (the 10th planet of Solaris) always loved and celebrated his great granddaughter, Irnini, the child who was to become Inanna.    Irnini and her twin brother Ute/Shamash, children of Nannar/Sin (son of Earth's Commander, Enlil) were among the first Niburans born on Earth.    Irnini, like the other earth-born Niburans had the longevity of the Niburans, but grew up more rapidly.
1  "Who on Niburu in diapers would still be, on Earth became a child; Who on Niburu began to crawl, when on Earth born was running around." (Sitchin 2002:152)

   

      11, 000 B.C., Irnini's Grandfather Enlil, Earth's Ruler, warned the Niburans, "Warming from Niburu's approach will destabilize the Antarctic ice sheet, which will slip into the sea.  The Earth will be underwater 120 days.  We're evacuating.  I'm letting the Terrans drown and swearing you to secrecy.   If Earthlings know, they'll mob the spaceports. But besides that, I want them dead."  He wanted them dead for mating with Niburans, their "gods.  Enlil wanted Earthlings dead for admiring his brilliant, prolifigate brother, Enki, more.  

After the deluge subsided, Irnini thought that if it had been Enki's turn to be Earth Ruler, he would have saved more humans then the ones in the sub.2  When Grandfather found Earthlings alive and in possession of genetic starts to replenish the planet, he knew Enki'd broken the secrecy oath.  Enlil was furious with Enki.  But Irnini wished it'd been Enki's turn to rule.   

Enlil ruled now since he'd drawn the long straw for him and his male descendants--his patrilineage, the Enlilites, to rule till Niburu's next perigee.   But 450,000 years ago, nearly a full Niburan year before Enlil and Inanna arrived on Earth, Enki had founded Earth Colony.  He'd grafted Niburan genes on the Earth's apes to make smart servants.  Uncle Enki didn't want his hybrid son and descendants exterminated; he loved them.  Earthlings regarded Enki as their creator, encourager and sustainer god. 

Irnini's attraction to Enki was of great political significance, for Enki and his patrilineal descendents, the Enkiites, were to alternate rule of Earth with the Enlilites, each return of Niburu to its 3, 600 year perigee.  The Enlilites sought peace and leverage with the Enkiites of Africa; they betrothed Irnini to Enki's son, Dimuzu.  (Dimuzu's mother, Ninsun, was Enlil's Daughter).  Irnini would rule Egypt with Dimuzu.  She confessed to his sister,  "A vision of a great nation I have, as a great Anunnaki [Astronaut-Settler] Dumuzi there will rise.  His name over others shall be exalted; his queen-spouse I shall be.  To Dumuzi I will status give, the country I will rightly direct!"   [The Lost Book of Enki, Sitchin, 2002:252]

 The Enkiite's heir apparent, Marduk/Ra, had, in 9780B.C., divided rule of the Nile area between his sons, Osiris and Seth.  Seth slew Osiris in 9330, but Osiris' son, Horus, joined by Irnini and Dumuzi, attacked Seth in 8970B.C..  Seth fled to Canaan and seized the spaceport, which had been under Enlil's control, at Sinai.  The Enlilites called Irnini home from Egypt and attacked the Enkiites.  

     Enlil's heir apparent, Ninurta, defeated the Enkiites and put Marduk's brother, Thoth, in Marduk's place as Egypt's ruler.  Marduk's influence was confined to his city-state, Babylon.  Ninurta and the Enlilites were to rule the rest of Greater Sumer (Mesopotamia).  Irnini returned to Egypt and consummated her marriage with Dumuzi but his brother Marduk
4 engineered his death.   

Dumuzi's death shocked the human population, which believed the astronaut/"gods" immortal.  Irnini had  Dumuzi's body embalmed and placed on a stone for what she declared would be his future revival.  Her original motive for embalming him: "preserve the illusion of divine immortality" for the humans.  [Sitchin, The Cosmic Code, page 91]

Notes  
1.   Irnini/Inanna/Ishtar, like all Niburans, was long-lived in Earth years.   One Niburan year (rotation of Niburu around Solaris) is 3, 600 years on Terra.
2.   Descendants of Cain (Enki's son with a hybrid mother), marked genetically by beardlessness,  also survived in their exile atop the Andes.
3.  "Every Earthling had to perish! he with fury shouted; at Enki with anger he lunged, To kill his brother with his bare hands he was ready.  'He is no mere mortal, my son he is!' Enki to Ziusudra [Noah] pointing, cried out."   [The Lost Book of Enki, Sitchin, 2002:229]
4.  Marduk was Enki's son by Dimkina, The daughter of Nibiru's deposed King Alalu, whom Anu (Enki's father) had married in a deal to secure succession to Nibiru's throne for Enki.  Marduk was born on Nibiru but was brought with his mother to Earth by Enki.

References
Sitchin, Z., 1976 The 12th Planet; 1980 The Stairway to Heaven 1985 The Wars of Gods and Men; 1990 The Lost Realms; 1990 Genesis Revisited;  1993 When Time Began; 1995 Divine Encounters; 1996 Of Heaven and Earth; 1998 The Cosmic Code, NY: Avon; 2002 The Lost Book of Enki;  Freer, N., 1999, God Games Book Tree; 2000, Breaking the Godspell, Book Tree.


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