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Inanna/Ishtar: Goddess of Love and War

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Inanna/Ishtar: Goddess of Love and War - Whitaker, John
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Six-thousand-year-old clay tablets left behind by the Sumerians tell us in cuneiform script that the planets Uranus and Neptune are "greenish-blue." How did they know? Our science could not confirm that until the Voyager II fly-by in the 1980s. The ignored question of the last century has to be: "Who told the Sumerians that Uranus and Neptune exist, and about their colors?" Again: "Who told them?" Take a breath to grasp the significance of that question? The same clay tablets also tell that Inanna, a fierce and beautiful ...

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Inanna/Ishtar: Goddess of Love and War 2012, Createspace Independent Publishing Platform, North Charleston SC

ISBN-13: 9781470098384

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