Thousands of years ago, in the ancient Sumerian epic of Gilgamesh, Inanna,
Goddess of life and royal power, Queen of Heaven and Earth, embarks upon
a seven staged mystical journey to the underworld where her descent
succeeds upon her removal of a piece of clothing or adornment at each of
seven gates. Ishtar, the Assyrian and Babylonian counterpart to the
Sumerian Inanna, also travels through seven gates to the underworld,
as does the Semitic goddess Astarte. With the Egyptians, the myth of the
dying God is introduced as the body of Osiris is dismembered into fourteen
pieces, sent to seven worlds which are without and another seven worlds
which are within. The Goddess Isis succeeds in recovering all the missing
parts except one, the phallus, which she substitutes with a golden replica
of the missing organ. The Hindus gave us Kali, and the Seven Chakras of the
human body. Much later we are introduced to the biblical, assimilated
'morphic resonances' of Lilith, Eve, and Mary (both of them). Aeons later,
in a new century and millennium ...*
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