One of the most important goddess’s of the Sumerian pantheon from ancient Mesopotamia is Inanna. Known as the Queen of heaven she was the daughter of the Sky God An (god of heaven, son of Nammu, father of Enlil, and spouse of Ki) and the Moon God Nanna (called ‘Lord of Destiny’. He is a son of Enlil and Ninlil and his wife is Ningal.) Inanna is also known as Nin-me-sar-ra, the Lady of Myriad Offices / or Queen of all the Me, Ninsianna as the personification of the planet Venus, Nin.an.na, which means ‘queen of the sky’, Nu-ugiganna, the Hierodule of Heaven and Usunzianna, Exalted Cow of Heaven The consult of Inanna was her brother Dumuzi (aka Tammuz )(god of vegetation and fertility, and also of the underworld. He is called ‘the Shepherd’ and ‘lord of the sheepfolds’.). In the most famous myth of Inanna “Inanna’s descent in to the Underworld” Inanna’s sister Ereshkigal (goddess of the underworld, Together with her consort Nergal she rules the underworld, also called ‘the big land’, from which no-one returns.) sentences her to death. But as Inanna died so did all of nature and nothing would grow so Enki (high god of water and intellect, creation, wisdom and medicine who could restore the dead to life.) choose to intervene and allowed Inanna to be reborn if another took her place. Inanna choose her brother and consult Dumuzi. From then on Dumuzi would die in the heat of summer and his soul would be carried to the Underworld where
