114 Without you no destiny at all is determined,....
115 To run, to escape, to quiet and to pacify are yours, Inanna.117 To open up roads and paths, a place of peace for the journey, a
companion for the weak, are yours, Inanna.
118 To keep paths and ways in good order, to shatter earth and to
make it firm are yours, Inanna.
119 To destroy, to build up, to tear out and to settle are yours,
Inanna.
120 To turn a man into a woman and a woman into a man are yours,
Inanna.
121 Desirability and arousal, goods and property are yours,
Inanna.123 Gaining wealth and having success in wealth, financial loss and
reduced wealth are yours, Inanna.125 Assigning virility, dignity, guardian angels, protective deities
and cult centres are yours, Inanna.— Inanna and Ishtar in the Babylonian world —Figure 23. 3 Impression of Old Babylonian cylinder seal depicting suppliant goddess and king
facing Ishtar in her guise as warrior goddess with her right foot resting on a lion’s neck and beneath
a six-pointed star-disc (her symbol) and crescent (symbol of her father, Sin, the moon-god). In her
left arm, she holds a harpe-sword and in her right hand, the double lion-headed mace. She wears
two quivers on her back which may contain maces as well as arrows. c. 1850 – 1720 BCE(BM
130694 ) (courtesy of the Trustees of the British Museum).