Inanna, Queen of Heaven and Earth: Her Stories and Hymns from Sumer by Diane Wolkstein and Samuel Noah Kramer
"He put his hand in her hand.
He put his hand to her heart.
Sweet is the sleep of hand-to-hand.
Sweeter still the sleep of heart-to-heart."
p.43
That's my personal favorite stanza in the poems :-)
This is a rich, textured, complex text - both the translated poems from ancient Sumer, but also the commentary. I enjoyed it. It makes so much more sense than the very cryptic version I read on-line more than a year ago. I'm also glad to have read more of the context of the Inanna's Descent story we use in Birthing From Within classes.
I want to tell Inanna's story many more times so I get it more and more deeply!
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