Inanna was regarded as the dispenser of divine justice

It is a fact that Inanna was regarded as the dispenser of divine justice. Inanna and her brother Utu were regarded as the dispensers of divine justice, a function that Inanna exhibits in several of her stories. Inanna and Ebih (ETCSL 1.3.2), also known as Goddess of the Fearsome Divine Powers, is a 184-line poem composed by the Akkadian poet Enheduanna that depicts Inanna's encounter with Mount Ebih, a mountain in the Zagros mountain range. The poem begins with a song that praises Inanna. The goddess travels around the universe until she comes across Mount Ebih and is enraged by its glorious majesty and natural beauty, viewing its very existence as an outright challenge to her own rule.


Inanna requests permission from An, the Sumerian god of the heavens, to destroy Mount Ebih. Anu, whose name simply means "sky" in Sumerian, was a divine representation of the sky. Anu was the celestial personification of the sky, the monarch of the gods, and the ancestor of numerous deities in Mesopotamian religion. He was revered as a wellspring of both divine and human monarchy, and his name appears at the start of numerous Mesopotamian deity enumerations. An warns Inanna not to attack the mountain, but she disregards his advice and attacks and destroys Mount Ebih anyhow. At the end of the narrative, she tells Mount Ebih why she fought it. The phrase "destroyer of Kur" is occasionally employed as one of Inanna's epithets in Sumerian poetry.

Symbols of various deities, including Anu (bottom right corner) on a kudurru of Ritti-Marduk, from Sippar, Iraq -en.wikipedia.org
Symbols of various deities, including Anu (bottom right corner) on a kudurru of Ritti-Marduk, from Sippar, Iraq -en.wikipedia.org
Tablet describing goddess Inanna's battle with the mountain Ebih, Sumerian - Oriental Institute Museum, University of Chicago  -vi.m.wikipedia.org
Tablet describing goddess Inanna's battle with the mountain Ebih, Sumerian - Oriental Institute Museum, University of Chicago -vi.m.wikipedia.org

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