Descent of Inanna into the Underworld

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by alganet • 12 months ago

36 10 12 months ago

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aswanson2• 12 months ago

The fall of civilizations episode about sumeria ending with a description of the underworld is one of the spookiest things I've ever heard.

alganet2• 12 months ago

I find it surprising that people here in HN find Inanna's myth so otherwordly.

aswanson2• 12 months ago

Why wouldn't they? Why would modern, science-oriented people be expected to relate to mythology from 6000 years ago?

roomey• 12 months ago

Snow Crash leaned on this mythos a lot. Great read by the way

ChrisMarshallNY• 12 months ago

She sounds like my kind of girl!

With her, the party never stops.

I enjoyed the read. The name, I'd heard. The story, I'd not.

eggsby• 12 months ago

I learned about this reading Ishtar Rising by Robert Anton Wilson

j_crick• 12 months ago

fnord hehe

eeasss• 12 months ago

Are these the aliens

ratelimitsteve• 12 months ago

the harvest season is indeed upon us with the passing of midsummer in the northern hemisphere. now is the time where light and life begin their descent into the underworld of death and darkness, to fully disappear from the earth and then fully return over the next few months.

Descent of Inanna into the Underworld

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