INANNA

INANNA Sumerian goddess. In the Sumerian kingdom (ca. 3000 B.C.) women were able to be priestesses, conduct business, own property and were held in higher regard than was the case later in Mesopotamia. Inanna came to be considered the mother of all creation although originally she was the goddess of the date palm. Her veneration was believed to assure the fertility of the land and the animals. Inanna was said to have composed The Song of Life and Marriage and a number of other Sumerian hymns…