Do you know the Inanna goddess? She is an ancient Sumerian goddess, who leaves her place as ‘Queen of heaven’ to go down to the submundo, meet her sister Ereshkigal, and there die and reborn.
It personifies the journey of heroin and the soul, towards the deepest, to return with the treasure of wisdom.
In the myths and legends of all cultures we find the oldest story ever told: that of the hero or heroin trip.
All stages of this story are a metaphor to describe an internal transformation trip that inevitably passes through a descent to the underworld to return with a new sense of identity, with a «treasure» to share with our community that is born of who we are in our depth.
These myths, such as the history of the descent of Inanna or the Greek story of Persephone that descends to the kingdom of Hades, imply that to heal us at a deep level and embrace our fullness and authenticity as adult women, we require inevitably transit by the experience of looking and welcoming our parts that we have denied or rejected to protect ourselves from the pain of our wounds.
That the goddess Inanna helps us to enter into the deep of ourselves to heal what it needs to be healed.