Inanna
c. 3000 BCE – 100 BCEattested
Uruk, Sumer
- Mesopotamian
Goddess of love and war in the oldest written mythology we have, whose descent into the underworld is the earliest surviving story of a god who dies and returns.
Known for
- descent to the underworld
- love and war together
- the morning star
Dates are estimates. A great deal of what this atlas covers is only datable to within a century.