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Howls Iggy Pop, and the murderous guitar of the Stooges’ TV Eye kicks in, as Phreedom Messenger opens up the throttle on the bike and roars out of her pit stop on the way to hell. w hor e of b a by l on , qu e e n of h e av e n And Inanna continued on her way toward the underworld. She journeyed from ancient Sumer up the land between the rivers Tigris and Euphrates, through the whole of Babylon and into Hittite Haran. She traveled into Canaan with the Habiru who called her Ishtar. She went with them into Egypt and they called her Ashtaroth when she returned, leaving behind only a memory, the myth of Isis.

Quiet, Inanna,” she was told, “the customs of the city of the dead are perfect. ” And she’s close. She can feel reality stretch thin around her, like the world itself is only a skin, translucent, tenuous, the Vellum rippling underneath what’s real, underneath, beyond, behind. She’s followed the path her brother’s ripped through time, pitched back and forward in his wake, cresting the waves and working her way inward to the source, the impact zone, where he broke through, like a comet smashing into the ocean.

And the beaded curtain rattles as she pushes through it into the dark room where the woman in the veil looks up and pauses in her work, a buzzing tattooist’s needle in her hand. And there’s another hand, grabbing at her arm, the assistant’s. And when she entered the seventh gate, from her body the royal robe was removed. ” Inanna asked. “Quiet, Inanna,” she was told, “the customs of the city of the dead are perfect. ” asks Phreedom. “I said, you can’t go in. ” “She’ll see me,” Phreedom says. NAKED AND BOWED LOW Naked and bowed low, Inanna entered the throne room of Eresh of the Greater Earth, who arose.

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