Description: THE DESCENT OF INANNA • A Ritual Mythtelling by Heather Wolf with live musical soundscapes by @joceanhandpanmusic.

At the threshold of All Hallow’s time, when the realms of spirit & ancestor draw nearer and the earth calls back life into her deep belly, we will journey into one of our oldest mythologies, the initiation myth of the Sumerian Goddess Inanna. Inanna, Queen of Heaven and Earth, descends to the Underworld to meet her twin sister Ereshkigal, Queen of the Underworld as a coming of age rite. This myth was written on cuneiform clay tablets dating back 4,000 years, and holds deep wisdom teachings and visions for our own processes of initiation. These stories made over time by innumerable beings, human and more-than-human, are like the stories our mother told us before we could remember. They speak to an ancient and instinctual knowing in our being.

Heather will give a ritual telling of the Descent of Inanna with live musical soundscapes by Jocéan, followed by a feeding back of the story, in the tradition passed on to her by mythologist and storyteller Daniel Deardorff.

Please bring layers of warmth and comfort. If the skies are clear, we will sit around the fire, otherwise we will be in the Yoga Studio.

Photo credit @ettie.wahl