• supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz
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    2 days ago

    No, it is a good question with the usual simple ugly answers but also interesting nuanced ones too.

    For example, one of the first civilizations Sumeria had a very prominent female deity named Ianna

    She was especially beloved by the Assyrians, who elevated her to become the highest deity in their pantheon, ranking above their own national god Ashur. Inanna/Ishtar is alluded to in the Hebrew Bible[citation needed], and she greatly influenced the Ugaritic goddess Ashtart and later the Phoenician goddess Astarte, who in turn possibly influenced the development of the Greek goddess Aphrodite. Her cult continued to flourish until its gradual decline between the first and sixth centuries CE in the wake of Christianity.

    Inanna appears in more myths than any other Sumerian deity.[9][10][11] She also has a uniquely high number of epithets and alternate names, comparable only to Nergal.[12]

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inanna