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Beloved Aphrodite, goddess who grants to us the greatest of joys, the harshest of sorrows, the sharpest of pleasures, the dearest of pains.

Aphrodite, freshest of Olympos’ flowers, your lightest touch can turn the hearts of men towards love; with voice sweet as honey, sweet as wine, you speak words of persuasion, we hear and heed, rapt in wonder.

O Aphrodite, grace and beauty surround you, where you pass, the roses bloom, with sweetest scent and sharpest thorn: with reckless hands we grasp them.

Aphrodite, born of blood in the cold salt sea, born of the fallen sky, goddess whose kindness can be so brutal, who cruelty we cherish, blessed are your children, blessed those your favor, blessed those who have felt your might, blessed those who dwell in your domain.

O mito grego de Afrodite e Adonis , mostrado aqui neste altar da cidade grega de Taras na Magna Grécia , datado de c. 400-375 AEC, é derivado do mito mesopotâmico de Inanna e Dumuzid.

Ishtar - 𒀭𒈹 - Inanna - 𒈹

That culture of lamenting Adonis death goes back to Aphrodite's and Adonis' roots from mesopotamia, where people belived Dumuzid's yearly death caused the dry seasons of Sumeria.

Inanna weeping for Dumuzid, Aphrodite mourning Adonis.

The number of narratives which make Inanna responsible for his death isn’t actually all that high (and of these, the most notable pins the blame on Dumuzi not mourning her own death before), the most common cause are demons or bandits acting on own accord with Inanna absent or lamenting this state of affairs;

a particularly extreme case is the myth Inanna and Bilulu - here Inanna actually tracks down and rather gruesomely punishes the bandits;

a yet more extreme and very late view attributed Dumuzi’s death to him being “evil” in some way but this is irrelevant to the discussed context;

Some texts (ex. the Adapa myth) list Dumuzi alongside Ningishzida, a god who like him periodically died; however Inanna demonstrably has nothing to do with Ningishzida’s death (or life);

most importantly, love poetry consistently portrayed the relationship between Inanna and Dumuzi postively and as far as I am aware most Dumuzi literature belongs to this genre (you can see a sample here). As noted by assyriologist Dina Katz: “The episode describing Inanna handing Dumuzi over to the galla [in Inanna’s Descent] contradicts the many compositions devoted to their love and their marriage. (…) It also contradicts Dumuzi’s epithet “the beloved husband of Inanna"”

Sources:

Astral Dumuzi by Daniel Foxvog

How Dumuzi Became Inanna’s Victim: On the Formation of “Inanna’s Descent” by Dina Katz

Myth and Ritual through Tradition and Innovation by Dina Katz

Nin-giszida by Frans Wiggermann

The Image of Dumuzi by Frans Wiggermann

"Well-watered lettuce"

"My shaded garden of the desert"

"My grain lovely in beauty in its furrows"

"My first-class fruitful apple tree"

"The honey man"

"My lord"

"My altogether immediately sweet"