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or holds the hinge of the compass, which represents the unity of the whole
and the order of chaos.
In the Mesopotamian poem, Descent of Inanna, the goddess
descends into the underworld to overcome her sister, the serpent of chaos
Tiamat or Ereshkigal. She makes this perilous journey to achieve the
wisdom of the Underworld: 1316
Father Enlil answered angrily: My daughter craved the Great
Above. Inanna craved the Great Below. She who receives the
'me' of the underworld does not return. She who goes to the Dark
City stays there.
The me of the underworld is Inanna’s own base nature. Her death
is analogous to that of St George. Inanna, like Isis and Ishtar, symbolizes
resurrection and the efficacy of the elixir of life. 1317 In the underworld,
Inanna falls prey to the spirits of darkness. Love becomes death. After
three days, the messengers of life discover Inanna’s corpse impaled on a
rod and resurrect her. 1318 Inanna is an image of love crucified, the earliest
rose on the cross of Mesopotamia dating from at least two thousand
BCE: 1319
The Annunaki, Dread Judges, Seven Lords of the Underworld
drew around her. Faceless Gods of Abyss. They stared and fixed
her with the Eye of Death. With the Glance of Death they killed
her and hung her like a corpse from a stake.
And the Elder Lords were rent with fear. Our Father Enki, Lord
of Magick, receiving word by Inanna's servant Ninshubur, hears
of Ishtar's sleep in the House of Death.
To the Kurgarru he gave the Food of Life, to the Kalaturru he
gave the Water of Life. With haste they fled through the Palace of
Death, stopping only at the corpse of Inanna, the Beautiful
Queen, Mistress of the Gods, Lady of all the Harlots of Ur, Bright
Shining One of the Heavens, Beloved of Enki, which lay hung and
bleeding from a thousand fatal wounds.
Upon the corpse of Inanna sixty times they sprinkled the Water of
Life of Enki. Upon the corpse of Inanna sixty times they sprinkled
the Food of Life of Enki. Upon the corpse, hung from a stake,
they directed the Spirit of Life and Inanna arose.
The image of a serpent crucified on a tree is prominent in Israelite
literature. Moses hung a bronze serpent called the nehushtan, Ne-Esthan
in Greek, on his staff for the healing of the plague. 1320 The Ark of the
Covenant safeguarded it for many years until King Hezekiah broke the
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