Lakshmi Jyeshta Devi Durga In Ancient Sumeria?
'Additionally, the myth may be described as a union of Inanna with her own "dark side", her twin sister-self, Ereshkigal, as when she ascends it is with Ereshkigal's powers, while Inanna is in the underworld it is Ereshkigal who apparently takes on fertility powers, and the poem ends with a line in praise, not of Inanna, but of Ereshkigal. It is in many ways a praise-poem dedicated to the more negative aspects of Inanna's domain, symbolic of an acceptance of the necessity of death to the continuance of life.
Lakshmi's Elder sister is Jyesta Devi, personification of things inauspicious.
Devadasi system in Sumeria.
The Devadasi system, I have been thinking, was unique to India.
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