29.Rabbana
innana nakhafu any-yafrota 'alayna aw an-yatgha
* Post response on on-line discussion board by class-time: What happens to identity in
Innana's Descent and Ovid's Orpheus, and how does it compare to the other texts we've read?
Meagher points to the dualism of
Innana and Erishkegal -- the primordial goddesses of Life and Death in Mesopotamian myth -- only as evidence of misogyny in Indo-European culture.
In Voices of the Earth we work with a pre-patriarchal Sumerian myth called Descent of
Innana. In this myth there are two sisters, Erishigal and
Innana.
*[s.sub.1]i[r.sub.3](i)[k.sub.2]tam a bestowal." 'a[s.sub.1] [k.sub.2]V [r.sub.3] "*I bestowed *'ana [s.sub.1]i[r.sub.3](i) [k.sub.2]tim as a bestowal ..." ana suati Zababa u
Innana ana Samsuiluna rubem talimisunu sulmam u balatam sa kima Sin u Samas darium ana qistim liqisusum ana se-ri- ik-tim li-is-ru-ku-sum "on account of this may Zababa and Istar grant as a present well-being and an eternal life forever like Sin and Samas to Samsuiluna the prince, their beloved brother, may they bestow (them) on him as a gift." (47) summa ugbabtum naditum ulu sekretum sa abusa se-ri-ik-tam is-ru-ku-si- im "if there is an ugbabtum, a naditum, or a sekretum whose father bestows upon her a dowry ..." (48)
MADRONNA HOLDEN, author of the play "The Descent of
Innana," will read at 5 p.m.
Innana, Joseph, and other figures from ancient Near Eastern mythologies shadow the lovers and strangers on Darwish's pages.