Inanna's Influence On Sumer Culture

The authors of this book approach Inanna as the most predominant deity of Sumer, as her influence on Sumer culture was quite vast. In addition, her identity was retained when Sumer and Akkad were unified under a single political entity (Wolkstein and Kramer 1983, xv). Religious texts – like myths, poetry, and hymns – were less about procedure, and more about the stories of the deities themselves. This book, containing such primary sources needed for my essay topic, provides many cited images of the original stelae these texts come from as well.
The contents of the book that will help me the most in my essay, however, shall be the analyses that are given near the end. The texts presented in this book come a period of time prior to the unification