The gender-fluidity and patronage of GNC/ #transgender people by #Inana, goddess of #Sumer:
"When I sit in the alehouse, I am a woman, and I am an exuberant young man. . . . When I sit by the gate of the tavern, I am a prostitute familiar with the penis; the friend of a man, the girlfriend of a woman."
- A hymn to #Inana (Inana I) 16-22. https://www.academia.edu/5246382/Lajja_Gauri_the_goddess_of_sexuality_from_Mesopotamia_to_India
"To turn a man into a woman and a woman into a man are yours, Inana."
Inana C 115-131 https://etcsl.orinst.ox.ac.uk/section4/tr4073.htm
"When she [#Inanna] went out to the shepherd, to the sheepfold, [...] her #vulva was remarkable. [...] her vulva was remarkable. She praised herself, full of delight at her vulva, she praised herself, full of delight at her vulva."
#Inana and Enki, Segment A, lines 1-10
π Ishtar or Inanna, dated 19th-17th century BCE from modern #Iraq.
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