My first power song to Inanna has the following lyrics:
Hail Inanna, Sister, Companion along my Path
I sing your name and bid You welcome into my heart.
You are the Star illuminating my day and night,
Wondrous Truth, I´ve always known that I´d find
Hail Inanna, I lend You graces
Hail Ereshkigal, Yours is praise
Trust, love and faith freely given I bring
Mine is voice
But for all I sing,
Hail Inanna and Ereshkigal
Forever Queens
June 1994, by Lishtar.
From the Depths and To the Heights to share in all spheres
Re: The Living Temple of Everlasting Mesopotamia
I wrote this during the recent war after I read a poem to Inanna asking the goddess of war for peace I felt that perhaps another approach was warranted so I did a little research.
A prayer to Nergal:
Dragon, powerful and terrifying,
Cherished son of Enlil,
Blowing as a storm and striking against the rebel leaders!
Immense in your strength and reach,
At your front your roar is deafening,
In your wake a new order is laid forth!
Like a great bull you break the bonds that confine your people,
Like a great axe you cut the binds of the people of Iraq,
With ferocious swiftness you liberate the children of the black-headed people!
Your word command the storm which flattens the hostile land,
You make its evil unto dust,
You pour it over for as long as it persists!
Your Udug demon collects the dead and brings them to the underworld,
You sit in judgment with those who decree fate,
How wonderful it is to sing your praises!
I may not think that the war is being waged for the right reasons, but as long as it is happening I think that the gods of war such as Inanna, Nergal, Ninurta, and Ishkur, are appropriate to pray to. In this time of death in Mesopotamia we might also consider giving tribute to the gods and demons of death and the underworld, Gilgamesh, Ereshkigal, Neti, Nergal, Namtar, the Udug demon of Nergal, Kur, and Ningishzida among others.
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