The cult of the Goddess goes right back to those early caves. There, She is the cave itself, so that initiates who passed through the rites deep under the earth were returning to and reborn from Her womb.

In the myth, Inanna descends to the underworld, where she meets her sister Erishkigal, who is its queen. And for us, taking the journey alongside her, this is where we enter the womb- black void.

A Sumerian poem called ‘The Descent of Inanna to the Underworld,’ found inscribed on a 7th-century BCE clay tablet from Mesopotamia, recounts one version of the Inanna myth. A mirror of Venus’s cycle, it also tells of a time of matriarchal societies and fertility goddess religions and is one of the oldest written-down stories in the world. We’ll be