Inanna is an important goddess of the ancient Near East...
Inanna is the icon of love and fertility and warfare.
Inanna is the daughter of either the sky god Anu or the storm god Enlil, or the moon-god Nanna.
She is also associated with forces of nature such as rain and thunderstorms...
In a legend probably dating from the end of the third millennium b.c.e., we find an explanation for her association with the me, the sources of Sumerian civilized order inherent originally in the primal waters, the Mother goddess Nammu.
The me include, for example, ritual, priesthood, political power, security, crafts, animal husbandry, agriculture, sexual behavior, family, and decision making.
Inanna, lacking any particular office or function among the gods, decides to visit the crafty Enki in the abzu at his home in Eridu with the intention of stealing the powerful elements of the me.
The legend in question probably was enacted in a festival or cult drama, one type of which was the journey drama in which a deity traveled ritually from his or her home city to the city of another god, especially to Enki at Eridu, where great power was stored and could be obtained as a boon.
It seems that after Inanna's gaining of the me and her becoming one of the four most important deities—truly a queen of heaven—she has yet to fulfill her destiny as a goddess of erotic love and fertility...
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Inanna is portrayed as a fickle person who first attracts men and then rejects them.
She is depicted as richly dressed goddess or as a naked woman.
Her symbol is the eight-pointed star...
Inanna is the Sumerian counterpart of the Semitic goddess Ishtar.
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