In Sumerian, her name means ‘ornament of heaven’ and she composed and dedicated 42 devotional temple hymns and three poems to Inanna.

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