Inanna Today

Inanna Today
21st century fertility is somewhat different than that of ancient Sumer. The Sumerians were interested in fertility rites because the ways of reproduction remained scientifically unknown. The food supply was also not in as much abundance as it is today and reserves were perishable. Women with curvier figures were more fertile because they were obviously well-nourished.

Today’s society is largely patriarchal and this leaves women feeling powerless. A powerful female figure is unknown. Women are treated as a different class of society. Women’s rights were violently oppressed for many years and continue to be to this day. An objectification of women has been common to both ancient Sumer and the US. Inanna fulfilled society’s need for influential Yin energy. A basic female essence is necessary for there to be a unified whole. Modern western society is so Yang infused that it is aggressively lacking in balance.

This objectification is prevalent because men repress their feminine energies and view them as inferior. The best and only way to keep this viewpoint in a conscious and intelligent way is to dehumanize a woman and judge her by her sexuality, i.e. fertility. By consciously and vigilantly idealizing women and treating them as objects, the masculine authority can not only justify treating women as inferior but keep them that way.

This “killing two birds with one stone” has fooled women into thinking they are in actuality inferior to men. This also helps keep men in power, if the women themselves are made to feel and continue to feel powerless, they will never attempt to take any power for themselves, leaving it all in the hands of men. If a woman is less than perfect, than she has no right to be seeking power—rather she is too busy using every means at her disposal, even surgically altering her appearance at the expense of her health, spending time and money with cosmetics, clothing, dieting and exercise, all pastimes to keep the woman from thinking about what’s REALLY important. Rather, her physical appearance is the ONLY thing that matters and the approval of her mate.

Is this mate be it male or female, really taking as much time and rating his or her self worth on his attractiveness? No. Not nearly as much. Most heterosexual men barely keep themselves hygienically clean and neglect their physical appearance as much as it is socially acceptable. They are not judged not nearly as much. Men in power, bosses, managers, supervisors, most are unattractive, overweight, middle-aged men with trophy wives who still cheat. Men do not have to take care of their offspring nearly as much. All blame and responsibility go to the mother.

Inanna is one way for a woman to REMEMBER her power.