The Descent of Inanna: The technology of myth

The Descent of Inanna is one of the earliest myths of humanity – a story that encodes within it the transit of the planet Venus and her Sumerian archetypal representative – the goddess Inanna, Queen of Heaven. With performer Anna-Helena McLean and staff at Ravensbourne University, we are creating a VR performance piece in Ravensbourne’s HoloPortal to draw out the essential information within this story utilising the ancient technology of myth-making.

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Sarah Janes

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Publication date: July 2019

Publication date (Print): July 2019

Pages: 162-163

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DOI: 10.14236/ewic/EVA2019.31

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Conference name: Proceedings of EVA London 2019

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Conference location: London, UK

Conference date: 8 - 11 July 2019

Conference sponsor: Electronic Workshops in Computing (eWiC)

Conference theme: Electronic Visualisation and the Arts

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D. Frayne 1990 Old Babylonian Period (2003-1595 BC), The Royal Inscriptions of Mesopotamia, Early Periods 4 University of Toronto Press Toronto
J. Hale 2017 The Use of Mnemonic Devices on Ordinary Recall
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D. WolksteinS. N. Kramer 1983 Inanna: Queen of Heaven and Earth: Her Stories and Hymns from Sumer https://archive.org/stream/input-compressed-2015mar28a29/done-compressed-2015mar28a29_djvu.txt retrieved 10 April 2019 )

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[1] Abdul-Hadi A. Al-Fouadi 1969 Enki’s Journey to Nippur: The Journeys of the Gods PhD thesis University of Pennsylvania

[2] R. Dumbrill 2017 The Truth About Babylonian Music

[3] D. Frayne 1990 Old Babylonian Period (2003-1595 BC), The Royal Inscriptions of Mesopotamia, Early Periods 4 University of Toronto Press Toronto

[4] J. Hale 2017 The Use of Mnemonic Devices on Ordinary Recall

[5] F. Harwood 1976 Myth, Memory, and the Oral Tradition: Cicero in the Trobriands American Anthropologist 78 4) (Dec 1976 783 796

[6] V&A 2018 ‘The Transubstantiation of Knowledge’ by Rachel Ara. https://www.vam.ac.uk/articles/the-transubstantiation-of-knowledge-by-rachel-ara retrieved 10 April 2019 )

[7] D. WolksteinS. N. Kramer 1983 Inanna: Queen of Heaven and Earth: Her Stories and Hymns from Sumer https://archive.org/stream/input-compressed-2015mar28a29/done-compressed-2015mar28a29_djvu.txt retrieved 10 April 2019 )

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