Tantric Erotic Poetry or Pornography? Your choice…

Poems from Inanna ~ Diane’s favourite!

Innana captured Diane’s imagination when she read the book Innana by Wolkstein and Kramer.

It was subtitled the ‘Queen of Heaven and Earth, Her stories and hymns from Sumer.’

Sumer was the cradle of civilization, the modern day Iran and Iraq.

In the Sumerian tales which date back to 2000BC inscribed on clay tablets, are hundreds of compositions – myths,

epic tales , hymns, psalms, love songs, laments, essays, disputations, proverbs and fables.

One of Diane’s favourite Tantric Erotic Poems is the love song between Innana and her shepherd consort Dumuzi.

Innana spoke:

“What I tell you, Let the singer weave into a song, what I tell you, Let it flow from ear to mouth, Let it pass from old to young:

My vulva, the horn, The boat of heaven, Is full of eagerness like the full moon. My untilled land lies fallow.

As for me, Innana, Who will plow my vulva? Who will plow my high field? Who will plow my wet ground?

As for me, the young woman, Who will plow my vulva? Who will station the ox there? Who will plow my vulva?”

Dumuzi replied: “Great lady, the king will plow your vulva. I, Dumuzi the kind will plow your vulva.

Innana: “Then low my vulva, man of my heart! Plow my vulva!”

Excerpt from Diane’s book, Sacred and Sexy, p18:

A goddess who predated Aphrodite was Inanna from Sumeria. Inanna

was considered ‘queen of heaven and earth’ and she embodied one of

the most ancient forms of the goddess of love and sensuality.When I first

came across her stories and hymns, they captured my imagination. Taken

from Sumerian tablets dating more than 2,000 B.C.E. they are stories of

passionate and erotic love, as well as Inanna’s journey to the underworld

and back. I was moved by the beauty of the erotic poetic verse (I call this Tantric Poetry)

and felt disappointed that the portrayal of this quality of sexual intimacy is difficult

to find in popular literature, let alone in our culture as a whole today.