#so i guess you can’t say definitively that Inanna worship was extant in like. Uruk X | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

dykesynthezoid · 5 months ago

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It’s like of course Akasha’s from Uruk. The city with the patron goddess of war and sexuality who’s notoriously ambitious and bloodthirsty and sacrificed her own consort for her freedom? And Akasha rules over a kingdom in pre-dynastic Egypt, the surviving art of which rarely bothers to feature men in preference for an abundance of goddess/fertility figurines? Yeah. I’d say that tracks

#I mean you start to see male figures more in later naqada art #a time period that actually aligns with the heigh of cultural exchange and proposed migration from mesopotamia #but that’s anywhere from 200-700 years from after Akasha’s supposed to have ruled #also I’m not sure there’s even any architectural remains of the eanna district that date back before Uruk VI #so i guess you can’t say definitively that Inanna worship was extant in like. Uruk X #but 🤷🏼#I also def know more about sumer and uruk in particular than the various predynastic egyptian cultures and settlements #reading about the latter is very fun— until the people writing about it fail to stop themselves from the genetic testing fanaticism #measuring limbs and shit to try and determine ethnic origins in the 21st century. kill me #scholars be normal about historic cultures in northern and east africa challenge #akasha #qotd

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