Inanna, Queen of Heaven and Earth

Her Stories and Hymns from Sumer

Paperback, 227 pages

English language

Published Sept. 20, 1983 by Harper & Row.

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978-0-06-014713-6
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A fresh retelling of the ancient texts about Ishtar, the world's first goddess. Illustrated with visual artifacts of the period.

With the long-awaited publication of this book, we have for the first time in any modern literary form one of the most vital and important of ancient myths: that of Inanna, the world's first goddess of recorded history and the beloved deity of the ancient Sumerians.

The stories and hymns of Inanna (known to the Semites as Ishtar) are inscribed on clay tablets which date back to 2,000 B.C. Over the past forty years, these cuneiform tablets have gradually been restored and deciphered by a small group of international scholars. In this groundbreaking book, Samuel Noah Kramer, the preeminent living expert on Sumer, and Diane Wolkstein, a gifted storyteller and folklorist, have retranslated, ordered, and combined the fragmented pieces of the Cycle of Inanna into a unified whole that presents …

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  • Inanna (Sumerian deity)
  • Mythology, Sumerian
  • Inanna (Sumerian deity) -- Poetry

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