In this chapter she passes through seven gates and at each of these gates one of her royal pieces of attire are removed from her. The writer is reminded of the descent of Jesus into hell or into the bosom of Abraham during the time that he died and the cross and arose from the dead and just as Christ arose from the dead Inanna too is brought back to life by the God of Wisdom's "food of life" and "water of life." As she re-enters the world above she is accompanied by demonic beings who offer first to take her daughter and then to take her two sons instead of following her, but Inanna refuses. The demons then attempt to take her husband but are thwarted from doing that. The seven 'me' are the crown, the beads, the royal robe, the ointment, the breastplate, the gold ring, and the measuring rod and line. These objects are all reminiscent of biblical objects and especially the ointment applied to her eyes as she enters the underworld being representative of the ointment that was used on the dead body of Jesus in the burial tomb. These Sumerian stories are seemingly closely...

It leaves the writer to believe that all the stories of the beginning are indeed one story told differently by different cultures and with the different cultural beliefs coloring the interpretation of how life on earth and the rule of the gods began.
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Wolkstein and Kramer, Diane and Samuel (1983) Inanna: Queen of Heaven and Earth. New York. Harper & Row, Publishers.

Sitchin (1995), pg. 167.

Wolkstein-Kramer (nd) Descent of Inanna Online available at http://www.piney.com/InanasDescNetherKram.html.

Cotterell, Arthur, a Dictionary of World Mythology, New York, G.P. Putman's Sons, 1980, pp. 35-36

Jordan, Michael, Encyclopedia of Gods, New York, Facts on File, Inc. 1993, pp. 114-115

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