Inanna snippet

[ikhet_sekhmet]

The final lines of a Sumerian hymn to Ninkasi, the goddess of beer:

šà-^dinanna ki-bi ba-ab-gi₄
šà-ga-ša-an-an-na-ke₄ ki-bi ba-eb-gi₄

The heart of Inanna is happy again,
The heart of the queen of heaven is happy again!

The author's footnote: "'Queen of heaven' translates ga-ša-an-an-na which is nothing but the Emesal form of ^dinanna." He adds that Emesal, the women's language, is used to indicate male and female speakers in different parts of the hymn.

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Civil, M. A hymn to the beer goddess and a drinking song. Biggs, R.D. and J.A. Brinkman (eds). Studies Presented to A. Leo Oppenheim. Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, 1964.

Comments

[murasaki-1966.livejournal.com]

There's a beer goddess? Some of my friends must worship her every weekend.

BTW, there is a theory going around archeology circles that the first use of wild yeasts was not bread, but beer. Bread was, essentially, a byproduct.


Really Ancient beer (mentions your goddess) (http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-beer-archaeologist-17016372/?no-ist)

[ikhet-sekhmet.livejournal.com]

I love that beer theory. XD

[murasaki-1966.livejournal.com]

It amuses me that the whole start of civilization happened because someone discovered a way to get drunk. BTW, a further part of the theory is that women probably discovered the fermentation process.