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[ikhet_sekhmet]

Some surprising revelations about Mesopotamian celestial deities. *loooong whistle*

ETA much later: Here's the source of the trouble: the author has confused Sin's daughter Nana/Nanaia with Sin's own Sumerian name, Nanna. (And the male Sumerian sun-god Utu with the goddess of spinning, Uttu.) Her thesis about "Sin-Nana" is heavily drawn from this article about Nana from JAOS (she spells the author's name incorrectly in her references, which tripped me up at first :). So the androgyny she sees in Sin-Nana ("I have heavy breasts... I have a beard") is in fact Inanna/Ishtar's much-noted androgyny.

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[drhoz.livejournal.com]

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[seeingred.livejournal.com]

A vanity-pressed collection of bizarre claims. The Sumerian moon god Nanna was equated to the Akkadian moon god Sin, and was the father of Inanna. The author thinks Nanna is Sin's daughter, and was combined with him into a hermaphroditic deity, and that this has something to do with sun worshipping patriarchy taking over from moon worshipping matriarchy. I suppose if that's your thesis you've got to insist that the moon god was actually a moon goddess. I haven't looked through to see if she's also reversed the genders of other male moon gods such as Thoth and Khonsu or female sun gods such as Arinnitti. What's frustrating is that there is real evidence of a gradual loss of women's and goddess' importance and power in Mesopotamia, including some possible gender-switches of gods, but it doesn't fit neatly into a lunar vs solar theory. Bah. That's what I get for randomly Googling stuff.

[drhoz.livejournal.com]

Ah, thought that was it