The fall of civilizations episode about sumeria ending with a description of the underworld is one of the spookiest things I've ever heard.

I find it surprising that people here in HN find Inanna's myth so otherwordly.

Why wouldn't they? Why would modern, science-oriented people be expected to relate to mythology from 6000 years ago?

People here pretend they know everything.

I learned about this reading Ishtar Rising by Robert Anton Wilson

fnord hehe

Snow Crash leaned on this mythos a lot. Great read by the way

the harvest season is indeed upon us with the passing of midsummer in the northern hemisphere. now is the time where light and life begin their descent into the underworld of death and darkness, to fully disappear from the earth and then fully return over the next few months.

She sounds like my kind of girl!

With her, the party never stops.

I enjoyed the read. The name, I'd heard. The story, I'd not.

Are these the aliens