Wake up to the power of Inanna
Whose name was first read in the form of a Knot
...known as the Knot of Inanna
For it is She who is...
        the Great Goddess of Sumer
        the Goddess of love, fertility and war
        the Mother of all life
        the Queen of Heaven, the Earth
...from which was given to Her by Her Father
        the Queen of the Underworld
...from which She earned from descending thru the 7 gates
        and then ascending back up to rightly place in Heaven
For it is She who is 1 with many names...
         Nin-me-sar-ra, the Lady of Myriad Offices
             or Queen of all the Me
         Ninsianna, the personification of the planet Venus
         Nin.an.na, queen of the sky
         Nu-ugiganna, Hierodule of Heaven
         Usunzianna, Exalted Cow of Heaven
For it is She who wears the crown of the crescent moon
    and 8-pointed star and who is bejeweled with beautiful
    lapis lazuli flecked with gold
and...
Whose Holy body is wrapped in the Pala robe of heaven
With eyes that call all to her
and...
Breasts that call all to them to drink from them
    the elixic milk of life
As She stands on the great lion while holding lotuses
    that she so generously bestows upon her true devotees

For it is She, Inanna, whom we worship
Worship in our great temples that we erected for Her, our Goddess...
    where we can worship Her thru drumming, dancing and singing
For it is in these temples that we ritually seek
    to become 1 with our Great Goddess Inanna
and it is...
With flour, that is ground from Her body, that we shall make
    sacred cakes for Her, that will be placed at Her altar
    in this temple of Hers
As it is She that the 4 elements unfold out of -
          Air, Fire, Earth, Water
and...
it is She who contains all knowledge
Including the divine knowledge of music that She
    transmitted to us humans
Thru Her priestesses who divined down this knowledge from
    Her divine realms above into the human realms below

For it is from the mouth of Her buru that all water comes from
For it is Her water that comes from rain that turns into blood
    which turns into milk
Milk that nourishes all life
All life that grows from the rain that She gives
For it is She who is the source of life and for all life, like the
    waters of life that pour out from Her womb
Her waters of life that teared from her eyes
Teared for the great Huluppa tree
Oh how she wept
She wept because the Anzu-bird had set his young in
    the Huluppa trees branches
And the dark maid, Lilith, built her home in the trunk
but all was not lost because soon...
Her throne would be carved from the trunk of the Huluppa tree
    by the sons of Uruk
Her bed would be carved from the trunk of the Huluppa tree
    by the daughters of Uruk
and...
From the roots of the Huluppa tree She would fashion a pukka
    for her brother
From the crown of the Huluppa tree she would fashion a mikku
    for Enki, the Wise Father
and...
Ninshubur, who was her faithful companion, would become closer
    than a sister
For it was she who went down after 3 days missing Inanna,
    and aided her ascent back up to Heaven

For it is Inanna
Inanna who is the instigator of creation, the Goddess who
    manifested in us sexual desire and union
It is She who "caused the created to reproduce" and
    whose planet is Venus
and...
It is She who is our lovely evening star who shines brightly
    in the night's sky

For it is She, Inanna, who maintains the world's order
The world's order that is birthed out of holy union
Holy union of Inanna and Dumuzi
The Holy union that on New Year's day,
    is celebrated as hieros gamos
The celebration of their sexual union
The holy union of Inanna and Dumuzi
Dumuzi, who is Her consort
Dumuzi, who is the God of vegetation
Dumuzi, He who surely pleases Her
but before consummation She praises him...
        He caressed my loins with His fair hands
        He poured milk and cream onto Me
        He stroked My pubic hair
        He irrigated My womb
        He lay His hands upon My holy vulva
        He nourished My black boat with His cream
        He ripened My narrow boat with His milk
        He caressed Me on the bed
        Now I'll caress Him on the bed
        Then I'll make love to my faithful Dumuzi
For it is their sexual union that will make the world live again
For their union will ensure abundance and plenty for all for the
    year to come
and...
The rest of the years to come that will cycle around
Cycle around the power of the Great Goddess Inanna
As she enters and exits the 7 gates of her descent and ascent
That takes her from the underworld of deprivation and then
    back up to her rightly place as Queen of Heaven


by savvy-10/03/2001...

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