The Caught a Light Sneeze-Inana connection

The background vocals echoing in a church in County Wicklow, Ireland that Tori Amos sings in the song "Caught a Light Sneeze" From her album Boys for Pele are pretty hard to understand, but watching her sing them and also from what she briefly mentions in the accompnaying interview, one can tell she is singing over and over the word "INANA".

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The goddess Inanna was the patron goddess of the ancient Sumerian city of Erech (Uruk), the City of Gilgamesh. As Queen of heaven, she was associated with the Evening Star (the planet Venus), and sometimes with the Moon. Inanna was also the Queen of Beasts, and the Lion was her sacred animal. Inanna is regarded as a daughter of the sky-god An (later to become the Egyptian sun god RA), but also of the moon-god Nanna (later to become the Egyptian moon god SIN). During and after the decline of the Sumerian kingdom Inanna was replaced by the Semitic goddess Ishtar, who became an incarnation of Inanna to be invoked at Inanna's original temples at the cities of Erech, Kish and Ur. This epic tale was lost for 4,000 years and only recently translated from long-buried clay tablets.

Inanna shows us the female goddess in her most complete rendition, not focusing on themes of motherhood, protection and fertility but on the goddess as a whole with all her light and dark aspects and with an open and positive sexuality. And then another example would be jackies strength, the modern woman figure. And Spark, the woman archetype losing her child, to iieee, the spirit goddess, asking why she has to sacrifice? And lots of Pele, where the goddess is really crawling on her knees trying to find her womanhood. Calling to Inanna, calling to her friends, to Pele to have a campfire, ect.

See the family tree of Inana.

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