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Ereshkigal and Inanna
Apr. 23rd, 2010 03:57 pmFor the last few days I've been thinking about Ereshkigal and Inanna.
[see their story here: http://www.theosociety.org/pasadena/sunrise/52-02-3/mi-elo2.htm ]
Ereshkigal has been a good friend to me. More than once, she's had my back. More than once, she's helped me watch my own back. I give her credit for my resilience, for the ways in which I've been hard to kill. I'd be dead or lost without the self-sufficiency and vigilance that Ereshkigal demands.
Still, she is not good at compassion. And compassion has clearly become the way forward. When threatened, I struggle to reconcile it with Ereshkigal's fierce protection, which I loathe to release.
Perhaps the answer lies buried in the story of Inanna' descent. It's the compassion of the gala-tura and kur-jara (sexless creatures sent to retrieve Inanna's corpse) that heals Ereshkigal's grief and rage, allowing her to let go of Inanna's body, so Inanna can be brought back to life.
And in the big picture of things, I think Inanna and Ereshkigal are one and the same, two halves of a whole.
Food for thought.
[see their story here: http://www.theosociety.org/pasadena/sunrise/52-02-3/mi-elo2.htm ]
Ereshkigal has been a good friend to me. More than once, she's had my back. More than once, she's helped me watch my own back. I give her credit for my resilience, for the ways in which I've been hard to kill. I'd be dead or lost without the self-sufficiency and vigilance that Ereshkigal demands.
Still, she is not good at compassion. And compassion has clearly become the way forward. When threatened, I struggle to reconcile it with Ereshkigal's fierce protection, which I loathe to release.
Perhaps the answer lies buried in the story of Inanna' descent. It's the compassion of the gala-tura and kur-jara (sexless creatures sent to retrieve Inanna's corpse) that heals Ereshkigal's grief and rage, allowing her to let go of Inanna's body, so Inanna can be brought back to life.
And in the big picture of things, I think Inanna and Ereshkigal are one and the same, two halves of a whole.
Food for thought.
