Inanna is an ancient Goddess associated with love, beauty, fertility, and power. Inanna was worshiped in Sumer at least as early as 4000 BC and she became one of the most widely venerated deities in the Sumerian pantheon with temples across Mesopotamia. She later was worshiped later as the Phoenician Goddess Astarte and later still was worshiped as the Greek goddess Aphrodite. Inanna’s most famous myth concerns Her descent into and return from the Sumerian Underworld.

The myth of Inanna outlines the loss and re-emergence of the goddess across the planet. She leaves through seven gates and at each gate she is asked to surrender a piece of clothing or jewelry. This journey into the underworld represents the gradual loss of Divine Feminine gifts and qualities to humanity. After a period of absence, she is allowed to return and She returns thro ...