[Image description: a tweet by Twitter user “Kai Heron” (@KaiHeron) that says: “Strengthen Indigenous land rights because they’re good stewards of nature” has become a refrain among Western environmentalists. Land Back is vital for Indigenous self-determination and liberation, not because Indigenous peoples do the West a service by conserving nature. /end ID]
“We currently have dozens of stories about descending to the realms of the dead, though research has indicated many more must have existed, lost in the layers of Human history we will never lay eyes on. Mathematically, there were likely hundreds.”
“The return from the underworld, and Inanna cast off her veil… It makes sense. I did not understand, when I first felt clutching whispers. Carrying wisdom away from Kur when she strode into the sunlight again.”
“Wow—Osiris, have you read this?” “Of course I have—several times! It’s a fascinating text; she is a master of her field.” “You’re telling me. Say, what’s that you’re writing there?” “Errata. For her next revision.”
