Death of the divine, 3 days in the underworld, #resurrection, & a promise to look over and protect us. A story told 4300 years ago.
Yes, I'm talking about the goddess #Inanna, her descent into the underworld, death for 3 days, & resurrection by 2 #trans people who rescued her. Inanna, filled with gratitude, promised to be there for us, always. Inanna, with power to turn man into woman, woman into man.
Enheduannna, world's 1st known author, high priestess of the moon god in the city of Ur, wrote of Inanna & of trans people in the world's oldest known written works. She celebrated us. There's good reason to believe she was one of us.
On this #TransDayOfVisibility, this is the resurrection on my mind. And given the millennia-long genocide trans people have endured, & the fact that we have a day of visibility, I'm thinking of our own resurrection, of our community.
🦁🐍 March 29th is one of the ancient festivals of #Ishtar/#Inanna, goddess of fertility, love, war and righteous vengeance. She rules the planet #Venus. She is often accompanied by lions and serpents. You want her on your side 4SURE! 🦁🐍
TWH catches up with the Chicago chapter of the Fellowship of Isis that celebrated their 30th annual festival last autumn with dances, oracle readings, lectures, and a sharing of cultural history
A beautiful queen descends to the Underworld to understand death, then returns to find her unfaithful consort has taken her throne. Meg Elison notes that this isn’t just the myth of Inanna – it’s also the plot to Greta Gerwig’s new film BARBIE.