Inanna all around us (even if we don't know it).

Inanna all around us (even if we don’t know it)

In the book Maia by Richard Adams, Occula, a black slave-girl, invokes Kantza-Merada. She uses the same epic stanza as in the book Inanna: Queen of Heaven and Earth.

Then, as she entered the fifth gate,
The gold rings were taken from her fingers.
“Pray what is it now you do to me?”
“Most strangely, Kantza-Merada, are the laws of the dark world affected.
O Kantza-Merada, do not question the ways of the nether world.”

The sixth gate is the jeweled breastplate, the seventh, the fine garments of her body.

“Most strangely, Kantza-Merada, are the laws of the dark world effected. O Kantza-Merada, do not question the laws of the nether world.’
At the word of the dark judges, that word which tortures the spirit,
Kantza-Merada, even the goddess, was turned to a dead body,
Defiled, polluted, a corpse hangin’ from a stake—

“Kantza-Merada, from the great above she descended to the great below. The goddess abandoned heaven, abandoned earth,
Abandoned dominion, abandoned ladyship,
To the nether world of darkness she descended.

Maia asks why did the great goddess was turned into a dead body.
Occula replies, “Why she died for us of course. She resigned herself to every foul thing that could happen to her.”
Maia said, “Then what?”

“After three days and three nights had passed away—
“Upon her defiled body,
Sixty times the food of life,
Sixty times the water of life they sprinkled,
And Kantza-Merada, Kantza-Merada arose.
When Kanzta-Merada ascended from the dark world,
The little demons like reeds walked by her side—
(Adams, 98)
Occula then says she wandered the world, and that’s another story, but she was saved. And Kantza-Merada does indeed save Maia and Occula, the Goddess of Love is also the Goddess of the Underworld, and it gives her even more power, more power to save the female from masculine treachery which is so profuse, which has always been profuse.

Another book that has has Inanna but by her other name, Ishtar, is Piers Anthony’s Pretender, which is about an ultra-intelligent cosmic being NK-2 which inhabits the body of a Babylonian scribe named Enkidu, and marries Ishtar and becomes a god himself.

I decided to invoke Inanna and ask her for help myself. It has worked, worked in ways that I cannot yet comprehend or understand. Inanna is still prevalent, she is all around us, and while I do not speak for all womankind, I know I need her. Inanna, thank you for your assistance in matters of which we spoke of. Inanna, thank you for watching out for the feminine, the life-bringers, who are so easily overpowered by masculine forces (or not so easily, if a woman invokes the Goddess).