ALL IN ONE PLACE: The Cult of Aphrodite, Mythology of Aphrodite, Transgender Aphrodite
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Transgender Women and Inana in Ancient Sumeria
Sargon wanted his daughter to combine ancient simerian gods with the existing acadian gods. This is a trick that colonizers have been pulling throughout history. Anheduana did this through writing, telling new stories that re defined the pantheon. She wrote many poems, prayers and psalms to her goddess inana. These hymns were explicitly gendered traditionally. They were exclusively sung by women.
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