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Essay / Analysis of Inanna - 1117
This image of fighting a man could also symbolize her role as a rain goddess, which can sometimes be an obstacle for people. For example, as mentioned before, she got angry at Gilgamesh for insulting her, and she sent a Bull of Heaven to kill him. Her commanding presence as the rain goddess is also depicted in a major hymn. “O destroyer of mountains/you lent the wings of the storm/O beloved of Enlil/you came flying into the land/followed the instructions of An/O my lady, to your roar you made prostrate the countries//” (Jacobsen 136). Humans can see how powerful it is because nature can sometimes be unpredictable depending on how humans treat it. This is why the Inanna in the Seal of Adda could also be the relationship between humanity and the weather. When there are thunderstorms, it could mean that Inanna/nature is demonstrating its dominance over limited humans, and that is why they bow to