The fall of civilizations episode about sumeria ending with a description of the underworld is one of the spookiest things I've ever heard.
alganet•6mo ago
I find it surprising that people here in HN find Inanna's myth so otherwordly.
aswanson•6mo ago
Why wouldn't they? Why would modern, science-oriented people be expected to relate to mythology from 6000 years ago?
alganet•6mo ago
People here pretend they know everything.
roomey•6mo ago
Snow Crash leaned on this mythos a lot. Great read by the way
ChrisMarshallNY•6mo ago
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.
eggsby•6mo ago
I learned about this reading Ishtar Rising by Robert Anton Wilson
j_crick•6mo ago
fnord hehe
eeasss•6mo ago
Are these the aliens
ratelimitsteve•6mo ago
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.
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