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Inanna and Dumuzi: Her Honey Man (part 2 of 4)

from Myth Matters Season 2 by Dr. Catherine Svehla

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In this episode I tell the second part of Inanna's story, the courtship and marriage between Inanna and her honey man, the shepherd Dumuzi. I've always delighted in the description of their courtship and the way it captures the excitement and hesitation that is part of falling in love and discovering the power of your sexuality.

At the same time, I bridled at the need for such a powerful goddess to marry and make her husband king. But is this merely a patriarchal degradation of a woman who rules heaven and earth? Or is their union, expressed in the language of a fertile and creative earth, a metaphor for the immanent divine? For the eternal spark in every life and material form that supports our existence?

If so, is there a way for their coupling to translate into a lived experience for us today, distant as we are from the image of a holy couple who seed each other to sustain the earth? I turn to the opening pages of Lab Girl by geobiologist Hope Jahren to aid in this reflection.

Until next time, please take all precautions to protect your health and that of others. Every life is too valuable to lose.

A transcript of this episode is available at www.mythicmojo.com.Thanks for listening!

the image is a terra cotta fragment of Inanna and Dumuzi, posted at wikipedia by Francoise Foliot.

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from Myth Matters Season 2, released January 16, 2020

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Dr. Catherine Svehla Fort Collins, Colorado

Storyteller, scholar, artist, & desert activist with a PhD in mythology & depth psychology.

Myths & stories contain the wisdom of the human race. I want to know how we can keep the mystery in life alive? How can myths connect us to a larger sphere of being & meaning?

Many of these tracks are Myth in the Mojave programs that first aired online on Radio Free Joshua Tree.

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