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VENETIA

Chapter Three Part I

The Palace of Isis

Chapter Summary:

The courtroom and the throne within the palace are described. Isis is to hold court in her throne room.  Sophia, the Venetian prime minister announces the court is to be in session. Music and  heavenly voices herald the seating of Queen Isis and Jim. Godiva and Medusa are brought before the court for trial. They are charged with breaking the law and are each sentenced.

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The scene is an Aice in Wonderland style Kangaroo Court with  an Isis appearing quite similar to the Queen of Hearts, 

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With all this in mind,  we are introduced to the Isis of this fictional tale.

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Author's Notes:

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Inanna is the ancient Mesopotamian goddess of love, war, and fertility. She is also associated with sensuality, procreation, divine law, and political power. Originally worshipped in Sumer, she was known by the Akkadian EmpireBabylonians, and Assyrians as Ishtar . Her primary title is "the Queen of Heaven".

 

She was especially beloved by the Assyrians, who elevated her to become the highest deity in their pantheon, ranking above their own national god Ashur. Inanna/Ishtar is alluded to in the Hebrew Bible, and she greatly influenced the Ugaritic goddess Ashtart and later the Phoenician goddess Astarte, who in turn possibly influenced the development of the Greek goddess Aphrodite. Her cult continued to flourish until its gradual decline between the first and sixth centuries CE in the wake of Christianity.

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The Sumerian hymn Inanna and Utu contains an etiological myth describing how Inanna became the goddess of sex. At the beginning of the hymn, Inanna knows nothing of sex, so she begs her brother Utu to take her to Kur (the Sumerian underworld), so that she may taste the fruit of a tree that grows there, which will reveal to her all the secrets of sex. Utu complies and, in Kur, Inanna tastes the fruit and becomes knowledgeable. The hymn employs the same motif found in the myth of Enki and Ninhursag and in the later Biblical story of Adam and Eve

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In the Hellenistic period (323–30 BCE), when Egypt was ruled and settled by Greeks, Isis was worshipped by Greeks and Egyptians.. The worship diffused into the wider Mediterranean world. Isis's Greek devotees ascribed to her traits taken from Greek deities, such as the invention of marriage and the protection of ships at sea. As Hellenistic culture was absorbed by Rome in the first century BCE, the cult of Isis became a part of Roman religion. Her devotees were a small proportion of the Roman Empire's population but were found all across its territory. Her following developed distinctive festivals such as the Navigium Isidis, as well as initiation ceremonies resembling those of other Greco-Roman mystery cults. Some of her devotees said she encompassed all feminine divine powers in the world.

The worship of Isis was ended by the rise of Christianity in the fourth through sixth centuries CE.

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"But to love me is better than all things:  if under the night stars in the desert thou presently burnest mine incense before me, invoking me with a pure heart, and the Serpent flame therein, thou shalt come a little to lie in my bosom.  For one kiss wilt thou then be willing to give all; but whosoever gives one particle of dust shall lose all in that hour.  Ye shall gather goods and store of women and spices; Ye shall wear rich jewels; Ye shall exceed the nations of the earth in splendour & pride; but always in the love of me, and so shall Ye come to my joy.  I charge you earnestly to come before me covered with a rich headdress.  I love you!  I yearn for Your love!  Pale or purple, veiled or voluptuous, I who am all pleasure and purple, and drunkenness of the innermost sense, desire you.  Put on the wings, and arouse the coiled splendour within you:  come unto Me! TO ME!  TO ME!  I DEMAND YOU TO ME!"​

The Book of the Law

Liber AL vel Legis

https://sacred-texts.com/oto/engccxx.htm​

 

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