Politically, this myth would seem to indicate events of an early period when political authority passed from Enki's city of Eridu to Inanna's city of Uruk.

According to the myth of Inanna's descent to the underworld, represented in parallel Sumerian and Akkadian tablets, Inanna ( Ishtar in the Akkadian texts ) set off for the netherworld, or Kur, which was ruled by her sister Ereshkigal, perhaps to take it as her own.

* The rod-and-ring symbol, her necklace and her wig are all attributes that are explicitly referred to in the myth of Inanna's descent into the nether world.

E. von der Osten-Sacken describes evidence for a weakly developed but nevertheless existing cult for Ereshkigal ; she cites aspects of similarity between the goddesses Ishtar and Ereshkigal from textual sources – for example they are called " sisters " in the myth of " Inanna's descent into the nether world " – and she finally explains the unique doubled rod-and-ring symbol in the following way: " Ereshkigal would be shown here at the peak of her power, when she had taken the divine symbols from her sister and perhaps also her identifying lions ".

Some, such as Joanne Pearson, believes that this is based on the Mesopotamian myth of Innana's descent into the underworld, though this has not been confirmed.

The myth was represented in a cycle with three phases: the " descent ", the " search ", and the " ascent ", with contrasted emotions from sorrow to joy which roused the mystae to exultation.

C. M. Bowra tied the myth to the period following the expulsion from Corinth of the aristocratic Bacchiadae, who traced their descent from Dionysus: " the cult of the god had to develop new and more democratic forms.

In myth, there is a stripping aspect in the ancient Sumerian story of the descent of the goddess Inanna into the Underworld ( or Kur ).

The mysteries represented the myth of the abduction of Persephone from her mother Demeter by the king of the underworld Hades, in a cycle with three phases, the " descent " ( loss ), the " search " and the " ascent ", with the main theme the " ascent " of Persephone and the reunion with her mother.

In racial terms, the plural majority of Valparaíso's people are mestizo but are commonly called castizos are largely white Caucasian who are distantly descendants of Mapuche, Inca, Aymara and North American Indian descent ( transplanted Cherokees are reported to come in the late 19th century, though it could well be a myth ).

Formerly, scholars believed that the myth of Ishtar's descent took place after the death of Ishtar's lover, Tammuz: they thought Ishtar had gone to the underworld to rescue Tammuz.

However, the discovery of a corresponding myth about Inanna, the Sumerian counterpart of Ishtar, has thrown some light on the myth of Ishtar's descent, including its somewhat enigmatic ending lines.

* The myth of Ishtar's descent into the underworld being read aloud in Babylonian.

This late origin myth or aition justified and validated the descent of the hereditary priesthood of the Boutidai family.

Since the mythic event drew together numerous heroes — among whom were many who were venerated as progenitors of their local ruling houses among tribal groups of Hellenes into Classical times — the Calydonian Boar hunt offered a natural subject in classical art, for it was redolent with the web of myth that gathered around its protagonists on other occasions, around their half-divine descent and their offspring.

Local myth has it that everyone in Romoland is of Mexican descent.

It is theorized that the story of Ishtar's descent is told to illustrate the possibility of an escape from Irkalla, while the other myth is intended to reconcile the existence of two rulers of Irkalla: a goddess and a god.

A Jewish myth of angels coming down to earth rather than being cast down, referred to as the myth of angelic descent, is found chiefly in the Jewish pseudepigraphic Book of Enoch, 6-9 and the Qumran Book of Giants and perhaps in.

By the 3rd century, there is evidence that some early Christians accepted this Jewish Enochic pseudepigraphy and the application of the angelic descent myth to the " sons of God " passage in, Its presence not only in the East but also in the Latin-speaking West is attested by the polemic of Augustine of Hippo ( 354 – 430 ) against the motif of giants born of the union between fallen angels and human women.

Appears to have descended from the heavens in the heavenly descent myth.

The origin myth of the Scots, systematised by John of Fordun ( c. 1320-c. 1384 ), traced their beginnings from the Greek prince Gathelus and his Egyptian wife Scota, allowing them to argue superiority over the English, who claimed their descent from the Trojans, who had been defeated by the Greeks.

She attacks as myth the beliefs put forward by historians such as Lionel Groulx that the Québécois are a racially and ethnically homogeneous group of pure descent from French-speaking Catholic immigrants to New France.

Copernicus moved our home from centre of the universe to its periphery, Darwin relegated us to descent from an animal world and Freud discovered the unconscious and deconstructed the myth of a fully rational mind ( Ekstrom 2004 ).

The myth Enki and Inanna tells the story of the young goddess of the É-anna temple of Uruk, who visits the senior god of Eridu, and is entertained by him in a feast.

The myth of Inanna and Dumuzi formed the subject of a Lindisfarne Symposium, published as The Story of Inanna and Dumuzi: From Folk-Tale to Civilized Literature: A Lindisfarne Symposium, ( William Irwin Thompson, editor, 1995 ).

According to the Inanna myth, Inanna can only return from the underworld if she sends someone back in her place.

The goddess Ishtar refers to Ereshkigal as her older sister in the Sumerian hymn " The Descent of Inanna " ( which was also in later Babylonian myth, also called " The Descent of Ishtar ").

Der Mythos " Inanna und Enki " unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Liste der me ( The myth of " Inanna and Enki " under special consideration of the list of the me ).

One Mesopotamian myth has it that the goddess Inanna abandoned the former capital of Akkad following Naram-Sin's plunder of the Ekur ( temple of the god Enlil ) in Nippur.

In some versions of the myth, no men were permitted to have sexual encounters or reside in Amazon country ; but once a year, in order to prevent their race from dying out, they visited the Gargareans, a neighbouring tribe.

In order to attain the Andromeda Cloth, he was chained between two large pillars of rock and he had to overcome the chains before the tide came in and killed him, also reminiscent of this myth.

James Corum states a prevalent myth about the Luftwaffe and its blitzkrieg operations is that it had a doctrine of terror bombing, in which civilians were deliberately targeted in order to break the will or aid the collapse of an enemy.

The dynasty that is so concerned to be authenticated in this myth is the new dynasty of Zeus and the Olympian Pantheon, and the goddesses at Delos who bear witness to the rightness of the birth are the great goddesses of the old order.

In the Near eastern myth of the primitive agricultural societies, every year the fertility goddess bore the " god of the new year ", who then became her lover, and died immediately in order to be reborn and face the same destiny.

In the Greek literalistic understanding of a Minoan myth, in order to actually copulate with the bull, she had the Athenian artificer Daedalus construct a portable wooden cow with a cowhide covering, within which she was able to satisfy her strong desire.

( The myth was possibly retrospectively constructed in order to account for the obscene phrase.

Theosophists of this period often inquired into nature using a method of interpretation founded upon a specific myth or revelation, applying active imagination in order to draw forth symbolic meanings and further their pursuit of knowledge toward a complete understanding of these mysteries.

An etiological myth can be a " reverse eponym " in the sense that a legendary character is invented in order to explain a term, such as the nymph Pirene ( mythology ), who according to myth was turned into Pirene's Fountain.

The myth is integral to the Egyptian conceptions of kingship and succession, conflict between order and disorder and, especially, death and the afterlife.

The remaining forty-nine Danaides had their grooms chosen by a common mythic competition: a foot-race was held and the order in which the potential Argive grooms finished decided their brides ( compare the myth of Atalanta ).

* The American technical death metal band Nile have an 11: 43-minute long song named " Unas, Slayer of the Gods " based on a myth about how Unas killed and ate the gods in order to achieve immortality.

" In addition, Knipe says that " a parallel to the theft of Iðunn's apples ( symbols of fertility ) has been noted in the Celtic myth where Brian, Iuchar, and Icharba, the sons of Tuirenn, assume the guise of hawks in order to steal sacred apples from the garden of Hisberna.

The debate caught the imagination of the popular press when Professor Smyth's book was published, fuelled by the former University of Kent historian's claim that the Cambridge ASNAC department knew Asser's life was a fake, but that they were happy to keep the myth going in order to avoid discrediting previous eminent historians from their university such as Frank Stenton and Dorothy Whitelock.

The pan-Australian Captain Cook myth, however, tells of a generic, largely symbolic British character who arrives from across the oceans sometime after the Aboriginal world was formed and the original social order founded.

In order to dispel the myth of Vanbrugh's low origins, Downes took pains to explore Vanbrugh's background, closely examining the family and connexions of each of his four grandparents: Vanbrugh, Jacobs or Jacobson, Carleton, and Croft, summing up the characteristics of each line and concluding that, far from being of lower middle class origins, Vanbrugh was descended from Anglo-Flemish or Netherlandish Protestant merchants who settled in London in the 16th and 17th centuries, minor courtiers, and country gentry.

In particular, Strauss argued that Plato's myth of the Philosopher king should be read as a reductio ad absurdum, and that philosophers should understand politics, not in order to influence policy but to ensure philosophy's autonomy from politics.

According to Davis, the Ranters were a myth created by conservatives in order to endorse traditional values by comparison with an unimaginably radical other.

Additionally, North suggests that the author of Dream of the Rood " uses the language of this myth of Ingui in order to present the Passion to his newly Christianized countrymen as a story from their native tradition ".

Given this supposition, Evola proceeded to argue that Fascism or National Socialism — with their heroism, their sacrificial and ascetic ethic, their authoritarian and hierarchical order, together with their appeal to myth and ritual — provided an environment compatible with the ' spirit ' of the celestials.

According to one myth, they were carried by assistants into battle in order to remove the heads of the fallen enemies as trophies for the warriors to show off during the triumphant return from battle.

Secondly, within the context of Classical Greek myth ( in which Vulcan constructs ) casts an invisible network in order to ensnare Venus, his wife in flagrante delicto with her lover Mars.

Contrary to the popular myth, card counters do not need unusual mental abilities in order to count cards, because they are not tracking and memorizing specific cards.