To return to the Sumerian City of E-ana/Unug (Uruk/Erech/Warka) - First Dynasty.

    Inanna can also be seen in the Leo Introduction, the Virgo Introduction and the Scorpius Introduction.

Subject: Sumerian INANNA, Sumerian Dingir', the Sumerian Inanna .

• Sumerian INANNA - The Goddess Inanna or Ishtar was the most important female deity of ancient Mesopotamia at all periods.    Her Sumerian name Inanna is probably derived from a presumed Nin-ana, 'Lady of Heaven', it also occurs as Innin.    The sign for Innana's name (the ring-post) is found in the earliest written texts.    Inana, "queen of heaven," Sumerian E.AN.NA.
• Sumerian ^dNanna or ^dnan-na (divine Bull/Moon God or God of the Human Race).
  • Sumerian Nanna, is equal to the Sumerian é-u₄-15: full moon ('house' + 'day 15').
  • Bull god and moon god Nanna in Ur.
    • Ur (modern Tell al-Muqayyar) was a Sumerian city in southern Mesopotamia established early in the Ubaid period (c. 4000 B.C.).    The city was the primary center for the worship of the Moon god, Nanna (Sin), and is home to a magnificent ziggurat built for the purpose of his adoration.
  • This is seen in the
    • Fifth Month (Av, Ab) - Leo, the Sumerian itiezem-mah-^dNanna.
    • Sixth Month (Elul) - Virgo, we find the Sumerian itiamar-sag-gu₇-^dNanna.
    • Eighth Month (Bul) - Scorpius as the Sumerian itishu-esh-^dNanna.
  • Sumerian ^d.
    • Sumerian digir: gods.
    • Sumerian ^dnin-kilim: mongoose ('divine proprietress' + 'herd of wild animals').
    • Sumerian ^dnin-nínnamušen: owl ('divine proprietress' + 'owl').
  • Sumerian nan: an-na: tin ('sky' + 'stone').
  • Sumerian na: n., human being; incense; adj., no; modal prefix, emphatic in past tense; prohibitive in present/future tense.
    • Sumerian na₄: pebble, stone; token; hailstone; weight.
    • Sumerian na₅: chest, box.
    • Sumerian ni; na: he, she; that one.
    • Sumerian a-na: what (a,'to', + ni,'he, she', + a,'the').
    • Sumerian a-na-àm: thus ('what' + 'as, like').
    • Sumerian a-na-aš(-am): why ('what' + 'one' + 'to be').
    • Sumerian na-gada: herdsman ('human' + 'linen' ?).
    • Sumerian na-kab-tum: cattle pen (Semitic loanword ?).
  • Sumerian a, e₄: n., water; watercourse, canal; seminal fluid; offspring; father; tears; flood; interj., alas!; prep., locative suffix - where; in; when - denotes movement towards or in favor of a person; def. article, nominalizing suffix for a noun or noun clause, denoting 'the'.
    • Sumerian á: (cf., áhi).
    • Sumerian a₅: (cf., aka).

As seen in the Orion Constellation Names and the Scorpius Introduction section.

• Sumerian INANNA - a goddess.
  • As seen earlier in Ursa Major and Dumuzi / Ishtar, we find the Sumerian unug, unu₆ [TEMEN-ÈŠ]: elevated shrine, temple.   
  • Sumerian unug, unu₆ [TEMEN-ÈŠ]: elevated shrine, temple.
    • Note: Babylonian lunar mansion #4 is named Temennu and is found under Taurus, whose opposite is Scorpius.
    • Sumerian únu: (cf., únug).
    • Sumerian unu_(2,6)-gal: great dining hall ('elevated shrine, fortress' + 'great').
  • In the Early Dynastic-II period (2700-2500 B.C.), from archeological records the city walls were expanded in Uruk (Sumerian unug, or the Biblical Erech) near modern Warka (the same root consonants *'rk with a different vocalization), during this period.
  • Enmerkar (Emmerkar??) king of Uruk, called en 'lord,' was the first to write on clay tablets and Kullub (Caleb?) has as epithet 'he who build Uruk' known from two epics, with no known inscription or archeological proof of his existence.    The texts refer to commercial and military contacts with a city called Aratta (not yet localized, probably in Iran), where the Sumerian goddess Inanna (later Akkadian Ištar, Ishtar) and (supreme god An) Dumuzi were also worshipped.    Gilgameš (Gilgamesh) is grandson of Enmerkar.    The Assyrian version is in the library of Aššurbanipal (around 650 B.C.) dating to 1700 B.C., and Sumerian fragments dated around 2000 B.C.    The royal dynasty name, Mesannepada, does date to 2600 B.C.

    This file was created on November 20, 2004.