Friday Worship

Welcome to Friday Worship.

Ishtar is not simply a Goddess of love and sexual pleasure, she is also a Goddess of fertility. Thusly for many the greatest avatar of Ishtar, and a sight most beautiful to behold, is a pregnant woman.

THE POWER OF INANNA

Wake up to the power of Inanna
Whose name was first read in the form of a Knot
...known as the Knot of Inanna
For it is She who is...
the Great Goddess of Sumer

the Goddess of love, fertility and war
the Mother of all life
the Queen of Heaven, the Earth
...from which was given to Her by Her Father
the Queen of the Underworld
...from which She earned from descending thru the 7 gates
and then ascending back up to rightly place in Heaven
For it is She who is 1 with many names...
Nin-me-sar-ra, the Lady of Myriad Offices
or Queen of all the Me
Ninsianna, the personification of the planet Venus
Nin.an.na, queen of the sky
Nu-ugiganna, Hierodule of Heaven

Usunzianna, Exalted Cow of Heaven

For it is She who wears the crown of the crescent moon
and 8-pointed star and who is bejeweled with beautiful
lapis lazuli flecked with gold
and...
Whose Holy body is wrapped in the Pala robe of heaven

With eyes that call all to her
and...
Breasts that call all to them to drink from them
the elixic milk of life
As She stands on the great lion while holding lotuses
that she so generously bestows upon her true devotees

For it is She, Inanna, whom we worship

Worship in our great temples that we erected for Her, our Goddess...
where we can worship Her thru drumming, dancing and singing

For it is in these temples that we ritually seek
to become 1 with our Great Goddess Inanna
and it is...
With flour, that is ground from Her body, that we shall make
sacred cakes for Her, that will be placed at Her altar

in this temple of Hers

As it is She that the 4 elements unfold out of -
Air, Fire, Earth, Water
and...
it is She who contains all knowledge
Including the divine knowledge of music that She transmitted to us humans
Thru Her priestesses who divined down this knowledge from
Her divine realms above into the human

realms below

For it is from the mouth of Her buru that all water comes from
For it is Her water that comes from rain that turns into blood
which turns into milk
Milk that nourishes all life

All life that grows from the rain that She gives
For it is She who is the source of life and for all life, like the

waters of life that pour out from Her womb

Her waters of life that teared from her eyes
Teared for the great Huluppa tree
Oh how she wept
She wept because the Anzu-bird had set his young in
the Huluppa trees branches
And the dark maid, Lilith, built her home in the trunk
but all was not lost because soon...
Her throne would be carved from the trunk of the Huluppa tree
by the sons of Uruk
Her bed would be carved from the trunk of the Huluppa tree

by the daughters of Uruk
and...
From the roots of the Huluppa tree She would fashion a pukka
for her brother
From the crown of the Huluppa tree she would fashion a mikku
for Enki, the Wise Father
and...
Ninshubur, who was her faithful companion, would become closer
than a sister
For it was she who went down after 3 days missing Inanna,
and aided her ascent back up to Heaven

For it is Inanna
Inanna who is the instigator of creation, the Goddess who
manifested in us sexual desire and union
It is She who "caused the created to reproduce" and
whose planet is Venus
and...
It is She who is our lovely evening star who shines brightly
in the night's sky


For it is She, Inanna, who maintains the world's order
The world's order that is birthed out of holy union

Holy union of Inanna and Dumuzi
The Holy union that on New Year's day,
is celebrated as hieros gamos
The celebration of their sexual union
The holy union of Inanna and Dumuzi
Dumuzi, who is Her consort
Dumuzi, who is the God of vegetation
Dumuzi, He who surely pleases Her
but before consummation She praises him...
He caressed my loins with His fair hands
He poured milk and cream onto Me
He stroked My pubic hair
He irrigated My womb

He lay His hands upon My holy vulva
He nourished My black boat with His cream
He ripened My narrow boat with His milk
He caressed Me on the bed
Now I'll caress Him on the bed

Then I'll make love to my faithful Dumuzi
For it is their sexual union that will make the world live again

For their union will ensure abundance and plenty for all for the year to come
and...
The rest of the years to come that will cycle around
Cycle around the power of the Great Goddess Inanna

As she enters and exits the 7 gates of her descent and ascent
That takes her from the underworld of deprivation and then
back up to her rightly place as Queen of Heaven

This exceptional poem was written by Savannah Skye. If you would like to submit a poem or request a theme for Friday Worship, we would be very pleased to hear from you.

May Her blessings be with you always.