Re: Semele and Demeter

Hello,
John wrote:

>Inanna's name seems to have
>survived in the Western Semites as Hannah, leading to the feared
>Canaanite goddess of war Anath (the Carthaginian Tanit), and ultimately
>to the Biblical Saint Anne. Amongst the Persians she was known as
>Anahita.<

If you take into account the fact that there was also the Hittite name of
the mothergoddess, Hannahanna, who also has a part of her myth where she
vanishes and earth turns dry, that may well be a point for the origin of the
goddess (Inannas name is also from a Sumerian substratum language, I read)
to go back to early Anatolia, from where she might have entered the Western
Semitic area...

Ars longa...

Sabine