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Inanna (DINANNA   ???? ) is the Sumerian goddess of sexual love, fertility, and warfare. The Akkadians called her Ishtar. The goddess of love and war,[1] who was seen swaggering around the streets of her home town, dragging young men out of the taverns to have sex with her.[2] Despite her association with mating and fertility of humans and animals, Inanna was not a mother goddess, and is rarely associated with childbirth[3]. Inanna was also associated with rain and storms and with the planet Venus.[4] As early as the Uruk period (ca. 4000 to 3100 BC) it would appear Inanna was associated with the city of Uruk. The famous Uruk vase, found in a deposit of cult objects of the Uruk III period, depicts a row of naked men carrying various objects, bowls, vessels and baskets of farm produce, and bringing sheep and goats, to a female figure facing the ruler, ornately dressed for a divine marriage, and attended by a servant. The female figure holds the symbol of the two twisted reeds of the doorpost signifying Inanna behind her, whilst the male figure holds a box and stack of bowls, the later cuneiform sign signifying En, or high priest of the temple. She figures prominently in one of the earliest legends, Enmerkar and the Lord of Aratta, in something like a kingmaker role, transferring her personal abode and favour, and thus hegemony, from the court of Aratta's king to that of Uruk.
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