Inanna (Ishtar) vs Ereshkigal

In this episode I’ll tell you the story of Inanna, the goddess of love and war, and her descent to the underworld.
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00:00 - 00:23 Intro
00:24 - 00:57 The underworld
00:58 - 04:10 Inanna’s descent to the underworld
04:11 - 07:24 Inanna’s death
07:25 - 08:00 The food of life
08:01 - 08:51 Inanna sacrifices her husband
08:52 - 10:50 Outro

[@tableofgods]

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[@EnheduannaMeva]

My interpretation is that Inanna and Ereshkigal represent light and dark side of everyone's personality. And that sometimes we must confront our "dark side", i.e. repressed, unwanted aspects of our personality, to become whole, reborn person. This confrontation must be honest, without lying to ourselves, without looking from the position of our social role, wealth, education, etc. - that's why Inanna was deprived of her jewellery and clothes. And it's probable that it will change us, and that in result we will lose something or someone - maybe a job, which gives us a lot of money and social status, but in the depth of our hearts we hate it, or maybe a friend or a partner, who we will not accept us after this change.

[@tableofgods]

Wow, that was deep! Really interesting thoughts!

[@ooweeeooweee8871]

It’s not symbolism. She was a real person.

[@EnheduannaMeva]

@@ooweeeooweee8871 Do you mean that Inanna was a human being, living in the past? Or rather, that she is a real goddess? For me she is a real goddess, however the myth - as all myths - should be understood allegorically. And I'm sure people from antiquity understood it as allegories, at least the elite.

[@stankatbarrell9878]

​@ooweeeooweee8871 mythology should be viewed as a message or like another person said allegories. There is no proof they are real, but they do have messages. So even pagans can recognize the symbolism.

[@yelieahyadrie]

@@ooweeeooweee8871exactly.., all these asleep people don’t know that..

[@dianadyer2152]

This beautifull Goddess Innana has called to I today. Ase. I am sooo honoured. I have answered her call. ❤

[@Ishtar_Inanna]

The story is very well narrated! wonderful Video !! ✨️✨️✨️

[@tableofgods]

Thank you!

[@leilahannah4806]

My mind first went to shadow work and integration, which another commenter has already referred to here. I also like your interpretation about there always being hope for redemption after hitting rock bottom. It made me thing of loss, breakdowns or dark nights of the soul, etc. In that context I think the myth really works because it also illustrates how agonising and seemingly hopeless it can seem when you are at your lowest point in life. Inanna didn't just go down there and wait to escape, she literally died! And it was almost impossible for her friend to help her because it seemed none of the other gods would show her any mercy. And then she had to find someone to sacrifice in her place! That just reminded me of the long, drawn out feeling of recovery. Most of the time you don't just bounce back, you have to somehow find the strength to claw yourself out of the darkness even when it feels like any hope, like Inanna herself, is dead. The fact that her friend helped her could also signify that when you are in that space, you almost have to draw on some kind of mystical strength that you didn't even know you had, or sort of switch on another part of your psyche in order to achieve said recovery. I know sometimes I look back at times I've managed to emerge from crises and thought "I don't know how I did it", because it feels like the person who did pull you out of it was other. Some other part of you that you split off and channeled to help the helpless part of you - i.e Innana's best friend helping her when she herself was dead. And then of course it reads as an inspiring redemption story. Sorry for the ramblings I just got very into it 😅

[@SundayMorning91]

"They entered the underworld Unnoticed, until the heard a voice-" Ad: -*whispers* "I... see... you..." Well that a perfect transition. 😂

[@SundayMorning91]

While it's a bit less exciting, this but from Wikipedia is my favored interpretation of the myth. "Modern astrologers recognize the story of Inanna's descent into the underworld as a reference to an astronomical phenomenon associated with retrograde Venus. Seven days before retrograde Venus makes its inferior conjunction with the sun, it disappears from the evening sky. The seven day period between this disappearance and the conjunction itself is seen as the astronomical phenomenon on which the myth of descent was based. After the conjunction, seven more days elapse before Venus appears as the morning star, corresponding to the ascent from the underworld."

[@cynthiadavis3102]

❤ this idea!

[@dianadyer2152]

I fully agree with you, brother. ❤

[@mt.everettrod]

I really enjoyed your telling of this. Thank you for putting this out there!

[@tableofgods]

Thank you!

[@LemurianMermaid]

I came here for more information about Inanna because during a Physic reading I was told that Inanna is one of my Spirit Guides❤ Her soul and Spirit resides as a part of my soul and I am very honored and humbled to have such a beautiful and loving Queen Goddess be part of my life. I see so much of myself in her and truly can understand and learn from her lessons. This was a great video and I am so happy I found it. Thank you for your creativity and story telling. 🌹✨🌌❤️

[@tableofgods]

Thank you, I'm glad you liked it!

[@yelieahyadrie]

Stfu inanna ain’t worried about you hunny she got better things to do

[@wasimovskey]

The father of Innana and Erishkigal is not An (Anu). As per the summerians and Babilonians, the father is Nanna (means full moon) and sometimes referred to as Sin (crescent). He is a very prominent god in the summerian and Babilonian pantheon.Their mother is goddess Ningal

[@spacey118]

There are earth bound energies incarnated for purpose outside the scope of understanding. Union blessings are for both individuals… not for one to take and hoard from the other. Dumuzi learned that lesson, it will not be a mistake made again.

[@dilofena8560]

Great video! I read about the demons that reside in each person. Everyone has to fight these demons in themselves all their lives. Innana had the demon of guilt that led her to Hell. She has already allowed anger, jealosy, ego demons in her life before the final one led her to Hell. Our dark side teaches us lessons. No one knows darkness when living only in the light. No one knows that there is hunger when always full. And no one knows compassion unless something bad happens to him. Her ego believed someone will come for her and save her. She instructed her servents and later even other gods didn’t want to help. The goddess of love didn’t make others love her or make sacrifice for her. Not even her husband. No one can do your work for you or just find someone that loves you unconditionally to help you out. She didn’t have faith. She had blind hope. She did not think of the consequences. What if no one comes? She will be in the light 6 months and in the dark for the other 6 months. Facing good and bad. Innana even as goddees has no power over this ending and her fate after breaking the rules. She can’t choose only Heaven now. And she has to accept it. So many similarities with other cultures, religions and myths. God gives each of us place and job to do on Earth. Can’t change or question His will. Our own will sometimes is what is the end of us. And the love and compassion of others can save us.

[@dilofena8560]

Also, I think her jewels and clothes were her blessings that she gave away. Her protection. Questioning the demon why take them off but not questioning herself was her mistake. She had many gates to stop and think. Now we don’t place any significance in our clothes but in the past they meant everything seen and unseen. In slavic mythilogy clothing is like protection skin. Traditional clothes have symbols embroidered in them and red threads on special placed to protect from bad spirit entering from openings like sleeve or neck line.

[@tableofgods]

@@dilofena8560 Interesting analysis! :)

[@Coach-ks5yd]

She was a producer and teacher. She told her followers women and men to earn what they have. There's no reason for you to slander Her by lying though she was not an ingreedful child who had everything Given to her. She was The Giver who taught gratitude

[@morganaladrina3040]

This is beautiful. My interpretation is that one can only ascend to new life by leaving something dearly beloved to them. Her husband is her life, and he must be cast down.

[@Justinsatiable]

I've read this narrative many times and your story telling might be my favorite one. Such a gem

[@tableofgods]

Thank you for letting me know :)

[@KingSolomon_messiah]

I have a theory. Ereshkigal ruled Earth, the underworld under the Heavens.

[@gypsyeclipse9788]

Hmmmm

[@metaphysiiickz]

This was great. Thankyou brother 🤜🏻

[@tableofgods]

Glad you enjoyed it :)

[@michaelhansen1670]

Well done & thank you for sharing 💚

[@tableofgods]

Thank you!

[@user-hn2bo2pn7t]

I love this story , and you stopped at the perfect place in the story to say , " Tune in next week to see what happens to the goddess of love". Great video , great artwork , great subject matter. ❤

[@kimgerritsen600]

Thank you for the video 🤍🖤💙🙏💫

[@tableofgods]

You're welcome :)

[@kimgerritsen600]

❤

[@AstralHealthGuy]

I don't think she was reckless. The story I heard was that she went to her servants first and they were all moaning her death. Her husband was having a party. Also I heard a further story where she regrets it and came up with a way he could leave the underworld for 6 months a year.

[@tableofgods]

It's true that Inanna probably regrets the decision in the myth, but it's kind of too late then. And in the end it's not Inanna that makes it so that Dumuzi can leave the underworld half the year, but rather Dumuzi's sister.

[@mattks1001]

What do you mean she wasn’t reckless? That’s exactly what she was. She knew the exact consequences of her actions if she went. She made her most faithful servant torture himself for her. She tried to murder Gilgamesh. She sent her own husband to hell even after he told her he had been nothing but a good husband providing for his family. It wasn’t until later she was overcome with guilt that she gave up 6 months of her own life per year in hell. There is no evidence from the story that her husband deserved anything. In fact it’s all consequences from her own recklessness and ego.

[@Vadatajs666]

@@mattks1001please dont blasphemy about my Lady Ishtar !!! go read the story better to understund

[@RP-mm9ie]

Well done

[@watchesandcoins.7738]

Great video.

[@tableofgods]

Thank you :)

[@kadmusfoogs]

Good clear grasping story telling. I dub. Thee homer of the tubes

[@Spoeism]

Agreed

[@nnastasys8082]

This is the best content for innana I ever found these days of research So wholesome content mate! Honestly I've been said that I need to work with innana and I personally posess that revenge on a lover that will betray me - trait as well as innana, 💀🙏🏻🗡️

[@tableofgods]

Thank you, appreciate your comment 🙏

[@Amar90]

Wow

[@NathanFatchett]

The underworld is just the place where souls go for final judgment. It's just the right temperature to be comfortable. Think of gods of Egypt whenever Anubis was holding back apophis. Seven Gates. Only progression of soul is important

[@KingSolomon_messiah]

I also have a few interpretations. It's about fallen angels. Although, this might be best thought about on my end in terms of what can be said. So I think this can be a wealth of information that is mystical. A good ol'dose of Solomon's wisdom requires permission from the commander I work under.

[@AnishSamanta-hy6iv]

😂😂😂

[@ninveh1]

Inanna is the Assyrian Ishtar. In Arbela Assyria was her Main Temple. 🏹➕Aśśur Rabi ➕🏹

[@atourversace4032]

❤

[@aripiispanen9349]

♪♫♥Very interesting - Thank you for sharing !

[@sargonch1234]

I agree with you 💯 my Assyrian brother 🙏👍👏

[@gypsyeclipse9788]

There is a name from my families that comes from ancient assyria.. I would love to learn more

[@tonymaurice4157]

This is like the original version of the wizard of oz!

[@AstrologyVibez]

From my studies, Gilgamesh was actually gay (maybe bi) (Enkindu being his lover) but wasn't public about it and that's why he said what he did to Inanna - which she clearly over-reacted to. I do wonder how the Bull of Heaven agreed to it or did she command him? Either way, brutal ending for the Bull, Enkidu, Gilgamesh, Inanna, Erishkigal and Dumuzi. Also - why couldn't the bull have been brought back to life in the same way Inanna had? Too much time had passed? or? She went to the underworld/risked it/did all 7 gates to show her sister how sorry she truly was and apologize but that wasn't enough, which is understandable. It was a reckless situation overall and yes Inanna's ego flared and she made a really bad move resulting in a lot of harmful consequences to this day. Do you happen to know if Dumuzi is associated with anyone else within different lifetimes/different incarnation of his soul?

[@tableofgods]

Well, there are always room for many interpretations of myths - which is why I love them! Not sure if Dumuzi is associated with someone else except maybe for Geshtinanna, his sister.

[@chrysocolapteserythrocepha5915]

Inanna was not sorry, she has hidden motives i.e. to conquer Kur (underworld) and usurp the throne of Ereshkigal.

[@MrTrogjrog]

i thought it was 6 months above then underworld for Dimuz and Innana

[@gigiLynnadams]

Greetings. Imagine my surprise when I found out that I am Ishtar incarnate and my daughter in this life is none other than Ereshkigal

[@iuniversalsphere]

INANNA, SISTER OF ENKI & ENLIL AND DAUGHTER OF ANU???????????!!😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮

[@WerIstWieJesus]

This myth is about the love shared by respecting the funeral rites. But as Enanna is a God this gets a new dimension that is not common to everybody. She shows indirectly the love for her older sister by sharing compasdion for her husband. Her will to show love for her sister is so big that she appears naked, free from every power, helpless in the hands of her sister who is known as a severe judge. Innanah doesn't escape her judgment. But she hopes on the misericorde of the higher gods. She gets it and the laws of the deads are fullfilled with strict justice. She is the personalized love. For her the gods payed the price. But her husband pays the price for all humanity by himself. He didn't ask for the come back of Inannah because he is master over the dead. In the Underworld he vinced one time for all the power of Ereshkigal and freed her from her frozen sadness.

[@WerIstWieJesus]

My strong opinion is that the sumerians are very intelligent people. And people that order their mythological world with logic, righteousness, virtue will get very far in the wisdom of god. Therefore I think that the Sumerians have seen much of the resurrection of Christ. The historian of the Church Eusebius complained that there were people at the Church of the birth of Jesus that had identified Jesus with Dumuzi. I think that in Innanah and Ereshkigal the duality of holy Mary and Eve is reflected. Ereshkigal is the human nature with the severe law of death. Mary is the only one that the law of the death could not hold back. God has payed that Mary could never be subject of the law of the death. With her purity she coukd affront death. Jesus is Dumuzi. He has paid with his own live for humanity and destroyed the power of death.

[@user-qq6tu8py1s]

#TGT

[@TheEpicOfSaplingmesh]

Is your necklace the symbol of Inanna? Where did you buy it? And would it be appropriate for someone from a different culture to wear the symbol of Inanna?

[@tableofgods]

My necklace is a symbol of the god of justice, Shamash. Which is also a modern Assyrian symbol. You can definitely wear that symbol, I don't think it would be strange.

[@dreamst8259]

I expect there is a lot more to this slanted story than we are ever told, regarding Ans motive for locking his eldest daughter in the underworld. I very much doubt we would ever be allowed to know the plain truth. But it will be hidden between the lines of the story.

[@MsForeverFluffy]

The Dumuzi part is a warning for man not to disrespect their wives 🤣🤣

[@josepheridu3322]

I always think about Inanna. IDK why.

[@user-xi5zg6sv2v]

I don't think Inanna failed to learn anything. She learned who her real friends were. Of course, at first she was arrogant and relying on her connections... But I suppose it's less than satisfactory that she ridded herself of an awful husband rather than give a pure sacrifice... But it IS satisfactory that she realized he didn't respect her, and he WAS therefore a good sacrifice as it came with her deepest heartache. AND it's really a husband for a husband. I LOVE that balance. No God is perfect. I'll give her milk- over Zeus ANY day.

[@tommykaung5882]

Good thing that both of them in Fate are reincarnated into Rin Tohsaka's body and their personality are a bit tame.

[@berndhase4399]

Personally I think that Inanna and Erishkigal, as well as other gods and goddesses were real people and many of their life events have been mytholigized by humans to impart life lessons instead of real history. I think this can be evidenced by variations in the stories. And of course the priestly class profits enormously from these myths, taking upon themselves the authority of interpretation to be disseminated to the worthy (having paid through gold or service) initiate.

[@marcusp_192]

I think i'm the only one here from Fgo

[@x3_rx3s]

Nah I'm here 😂

[@miguelangelcorderoramos-mu5wo]

Fate ultimate demonica and Babylonia is so much cooler

[@Sharon-yk7xm]

Why treat one more than the other will always be hurtful what sort of father would do that to his daughters

[@chrysocolapteserythrocepha5915]

Ereshkigal was not sent by Anu to the underworld but was kidnapped by the dragon of Kur (underworld).

[@leilahannah4806]

Why exactly did Inanna go to the underworld in the first place? Was it because she felt guilty about getting her sister's husband killed and wanted to make a mends or because she "craved the underworld" as another god said at the end?

[@YvonneBspiritalteacher1111]

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[@alanbarrie5777]

ereshkigal had never experienced love. innanna had never experienced death. was this reunion? why were they split in the 1st place? Im amazed at the similarities with Zeus Poseidon and Hades

[@tableofgods]

There are so many ways to interpret this story. One reason I like it so much :)

[@miguelangelcorderoramos-mu5wo]

There the same thing all the pantheons are reincarnation of the same boaring gods thots, hermes / zeus, odin, ra krishna there all talking about the same thing like uranos got his dick cut of by his son then osiris penus got cut of I think it was osiris and isis has been looking for that big Dee energy ever since

[@miguelangelcorderoramos-mu5wo]

What does ur symbols mean looks alot like the monster drink symbols for 666

[@liamkurushimi7425]

gilga is my friend :c watah of life

[@eyes2c..519]

Sacrifice something u love dearly they say they r still doing ths today getting jiggy with it na na na na inna na na 👁

[@NkosiyomdletyeNkomo]

On my opinion Inanna is now good and evil giving her the scale the balance of Light and dark as a Libra Goddess, anyway it was all God's plan

[@miguelangelcorderoramos-mu5wo]

And that proves it women cant take rejection and don't take accountability always expects other probably masculine figures to help or bail them out of trouble just like lilith and Gilgamesh that man is a Narcissistic big head on his shoulders and boy was it big if he was as tall as they said

[@Coach-ks5yd]

an Mather Goddess of Heaven

[@miguelangelcorderoramos-mu5wo]

Are you a member of the black sun

[@ooweeeooweee8871]

The goddess is real person and should not be denoted to some stupid representation of how people feel about themselves or shadows. Humans are pathetic!

[@yelieahyadrie]

Omg once again coming in with the facts✨ they all think it’s just metaphors or sum shit🤣😭

[@GenevieveWaller-pk3xg]

A goddess like Inanna or Isis should never venture into the underworld, they are beings who help everyone whether be humans or non humans...they possess good souls which the underworld despise. Therefore, when they get them there, they hold onto them. They are like the underworld's enemy. If you get rid of your enemy, your war is easier to win, isn't it?

[@miguelangelcorderoramos-mu5wo]

Good souls, dought any of the gods have a good soul jesus Christ maybe maybe being is as he is the only one to defeat death or was that krishna

[@vandaking6022]

I thought Innana was a evil goddess

[@miguelangelcorderoramos-mu5wo]

I see alot of our sexs problems women want to be wanted and needed and validation of the most high men just want glory and whatever comes with that truly even the gods were fickle things

[@jenathent4840]

Demuzi cheated on her while she went to die! He deserved

[@user-hn2bo2pn7t]

Hahahaha " so they gave inanna the food of life , And if you want the food of life, here's the recipe " Hahahaha. The food of life only works on dead people , when you give a live person the food of life they age rapidly and die in an hour. This is why it can only be given by the gods and not made by mortals to be in a recipe book. Hahaha

[@Coach-ks5yd]

Well the nature egotistical jealous guides never changes. It's ADT who search for her husband who was cast off into the Underworld. He went to slave demons and to resurrect him. That sacrifice images not had to answer to anything you're ungrateful

[@nimbuscloud90]

How about tell your story to israel and hamas, maybe somehow it help the war stop.