Inanna is the ancient Mesopotamian goddess of love, war, and fertility. She is also associated with sensuality, procreation, See more

Gwendolyn Leick assumes that during the Pre-Sargonic era, the cult of Inanna was rather limited, though other experts argue that she was already the most prominent deity in Uruk and a … See more

Symbols
Inanna/Ishtar's most common symbol was the eight-pointed star, though the exact number of points … See more

Inanna's twin brother was Utu (known as Shamash in Akkadian), the god of the sun and justice. In Sumerian texts, Inanna and Utu are shown as … See more

Inanna has posed a problem for many scholars of ancient Sumer due to the fact that her sphere of power contained more distinct and … See more

The Sumerians worshipped Inanna as the goddess of both warfare and love. Unlike other gods, whose roles were static and whose domains … See more

In addition to the full conflation of Inanna and Ishtar during the reign of Sargon and his successors, she was syncretised with a large number of deities to a varying degree. The oldest known syncretic hymn is dedicated to Inanna, and has been dated to the See more