According to Sumerian text Inanna's descent to the netherworld, there was a temple of Inanna named E-shar at Adab during the reign of Dumuzid of Uruk.

The early Sumerian text Inanna's descent to the netherworld mentions the city's temple, E-mush-kalamma.

Recent discoveries reconfirm him as an annual life-death-rebirth deity: tablets discovered in 1963 show that Dumuzi was in fact consigned to the Underworld himself, in order to secure Inanna's release, though the recovered final line reveals that he is to revive for six months of each year ( see below ).

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.

Based on the incomplete texts as first found, it was assumed that Ishtar / Inanna's descent into Kur occurred after the death of Tammuz / Dumuzid rather than before and that her purpose was to rescue Tammuz / Dumuzid.

New texts uncovered in 1963 filled in the story in quite another fashion, showing that Dumuzi was in fact consigned to the Underworld himself, in order to secure Inanna's release.

Although this was not altogether true — the princess of the Grimms ' " The Frog Prince " tale and the saga of the hero-goddess Inanna's descent into the underworld feature prominently in Campbell's schema — it was, nonetheless, a question that has been raised about the book since its publication.

According to text sources, Inanna's home was on Kur-mùsh, the mountain crests.

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.

There is no direct connection implied in the mythological cycle between this poem and that which is our main source of information on the mes, " Inanna and Enki: The Transfer of the Arts of Civilization from Eridu to Uruk ", but once again Inanna's discontent is a theme.

In the myth of Inanna's descent, Inanna, in order to console her grieving sister Ereshkigal, who is mourning the death of her husband Gugalana ( gu, bull, gal, big, ana, sky / heaven ), slain by Gilgamesh and Enkidu, sets out to visit her sister.

She tells her servant Ninshubur ( Lady Evening ), a reference to Inanna's role as the evening star, that if she does not return in three days, to get help from her father Anu, Enlil, king of the gods, or Enki.

She characterized herself as Inanna's spouse.

Similarities have been noted also with the story of Ishtar's or Inanna's descent into the underworld, Ishtar and Inanna being associated with the planet Venus.

Some other tales are similar, such as the Sumerian story of the goddess Inanna's descent into the underworld.

Today several versions of the Sumerian death of Dumuzi have been recovered, " Inanna's Descent to the Underworld ", " Dumuzi's dream " and " Dumuzi and the galla ", as well as a tablet separately recounting Dumuzi's death, mourned by holy Inanna, and his noble sister Geštinanna, and even his dog and the lambs and kids in his fold ; Dumuzi himself is weeping at the hard fate in store for him, after he had walked among men, and the cruel galla of the Underworld seize him.

Inanna's faithful servant attempted to get help from the other gods but only wise Enki / Ea responded.

In this tale Inanna's lover, the shepherd-king Dumuzi, brought a wedding gift of milk in pails, yoked across his shoulders.

Inanna's name is commonly taken from Nin-anna " Queen of Heaven " ( from Sumerian NIN " lady ", AN " sky "), although the cuneiform sign for her name ( Borger 2003 nr.

The same chant appears in Shardik with Inanna's name intact.

In this episode, Inanna's holy Huluppu tree is invaded by malevolent spirits.

* 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 ".

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An image of a Gorgon holds the primary location at the pediment of the temple at Corfu, which is the oldest stone pediment in Greece, and is dated to c. 600 BC.

It is perhaps, in this way that Nephthys best fulfilled her role as an important national deity whose ideal function was to provide powerful assistance to her associates in a great variety of temple cults — a truly " Useful " and " Excellent " goddess, as her primary epithets reflect.

A statue of Lord Brahma ( background ) at a temple in VientianeHinduism was the primary influence over much of the Khmer Empire, and examples of Hindu themes can be found on their temples, such as Vat Phou from that era.

He is supposed to have worshiped the moon-god Sîn beyond all the other gods, to have paid special devotion to Sîn's temple in Harran, where his mother was a priestess, and to have neglected the Babylonian primary god, Marduk.

The primary temple to this goddess is Gujarat and it is a place of pilgrimage for hijras, who see Bahucahara Mata as a patroness.

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At Bath, the Roman temple is dedicated to Sulis Minerva, as the primary deity of the temple spa.

This implies that Manetho derived the primary sources for his Epitome from a local city's temple library in the Delta Region which was under the control of the Tanite based Dynasty 21 and Dynasty 22 kings.

Minobu developed from the Kamakura period as a temple town outside the gates of the important Buddhist temple of Kuon-ji, one of the primary head temples of the Nichiren sect.

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For ten years, he laid siege to the Ishiyama Hongan-ji in Osaka, one of the two primary temple fortresses of the sect.

These people kept the pyramid as their primary religious center, but the newly dominant Toltec-Chichimecas founded a new temple to Quetzacoatl where the San Gabriel monastery is now. The Toltec-Chichimec people who settled in the area around the 12th century CE named Cholula as Tlachihualtepetl, meaning " artificial hill ".

The primary, tele-secondary schools, and a bigger temple were built to accommodate the increasing population.

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This valley hosts an UNESCO World Heritage Sites composed of seven different Monument Zones: The centers of the three primary cities, Kathmandu Hanuman Dhoka, Patan and Bhaktapur, the two most important Buddhist stupas, Swayambhunath and Boudhanath and two famous Hindu shrines, Pashupatinath temple and Changu Narayan.

This represented a radical change from late medieval practice — whereby the primary focus of congregational worship was taken to be attendance at the consecration, and adoration of the elevated Consecrated Host.

* Barack Obama has made the camp's Evergreen Chapel his primary place of worship, as George W. Bush had done before him.

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: The Yasna ( from yazišn " worship, oblations ", cognate with Sanskrit yajña ), is the primary liturgical collection, named after the ceremony at which it is recited.

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*** a call to the whole church to recommit itself to its primary purposes of worship, witness and service.

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* Poo Pathi, a primary worship center and holy place of Ayyavazhi

Article 3 called for secular education in the schools and prohibited the Church from engaging in primary education ; Article 5 outlawed monastic orders ; Article 24 forbade public worship outside the confines of churches ; and Article 27 placed restrictions on the right of religious organizations to hold property.

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