Fic: Inanna's Descent

[pinigir]

Title: Inanna’s Descent
Author: Pinigir
Fandom: Sumerian Mythology
Characters/Pairing: Ereshkigal, mentions of Inanna, Dumuzi and others. Ereshkigal/Dumuzi and Inanna/Dumuzi implied.
Rating: PG
Warnings: None.
Summary: Ereshkigal remembers Inanna’s attempts at gaining power over Death.
Disclaimer: Though it does belong to the public domain since give or

Comments

[wynkat1313]

Interesting. I like seeing the story from Ereshkigal's POV, though to me it reads a rather like an essay about history, kind of like she's not emotional involved in the facts.

[pinigir]

Thanks for reading! Yeah, it was a bit difficult to write about this without getting all those details in, because I feared that no one would know what I was talking about otherwise. Maybe I'll get the mix better next time.

[wynkat1313]

Oh I know that feeling! There is so much good material in there. I have the same problem working with the Demeter stuff. When there is alot of good detail already out there, the temptation is to put it all in. My very first Demeter/Persephone story actually had nearly more footnotes than prose, lol.

Given how well you know this myth, I look forward to your next versions and explorations. I expect they will be very cool.

[pinigir]

Yes, it's easy to want too much at one time. But now that this is out of the way, I think I might be able to explore all this in a more relaxed manner. (And I just wish I could rely on more people knowing the myths. Having the feeling I need to explain everything isn't very helpful.)

By the way, I compared this myth to the one of Demeter and Persephone for my bachelor thesis. Oh, and the myth of Adonis is pretty much directly related to Inanna's myth.

[wynkat1313]

"(And I just wish I could rely on more people knowing the myths. Having the feeling I need to explain everything isn't very helpful.)"

- trust the story and trust yourself, the rest will flow. I'm learning that less really is more. A hint of a sunset, a whisper of a breeze. All those things add up eventually when it flows from the truth. - which probably sounds waaaay too corny, but eh, I'm also a priestess, so I get that way sometimes, sorry.

And oh, yeah, I can imagine that there is tons to see in comparison between these myths. Is your thesis available somewhere? I'd love to read it.

Adonis, huh? I didnt know that, he's one I have not spent much time on, cool!

[pinigir]

I'll try to remember that. :-)

Well, my thesis is on my computer, in a Word document. But it's written in Dutch, so it's not very useful for anyone not familiar with that language. :-(

Yeah, Adonis himself maybe isn't all that interesting, but it's nice to see the parallels to the myth of Tammuz/Dumuzi. With Persephone in place of Ereshkigal and Aphrodite in place of Inanna. Also, there are a number of similarities to (the Greek version of ) the myth of Osiris and Isis. The Phoenicians have probably played a major role in all this. It probably also helps that most of these myths had similar functions: being tied to fertility and mystery cults.

[wynkat1313]

ah, oops, I knew I should have picked up Dutch when I had a chance ;)

I so love how these myths overlap and link up. Its soooo much fun to dig into and explore.

[pinigir]

XD

That's one of the things I really love about myths: the ways in which they are related to each other. By coincidence or in a "genetic" sense. Glad to see that someone has the same idea as me!