Inana was also equated with the planet Venus, which appears as the Evening Star until it disappears/dies, then is later seen again as the Morning Star heralding the dawn. The Sumerian goddess Inana descended through the 7 levels to the underworld and was missing for 3 days and 3 nights (as she had predicted), but came back to life and rose again after being given the food and drink of life (Sumerian, 3rd millennium bce).The number 3 had been associated with death/darkness probably since prehistoric times, when people noticed that the moon 'died'/disappeared for 3 days out of every lunar cycle but always came back to "eternal life." Then 3 was also applied to the planet Venus ("morning star") and the sun, which also "die" and return to life in regular natural cycles.Ĭheck this list that I have been compiling over the years: The earliest myths featuring this motif appear in ancient Egyptian and Sumerian literature long before Christianity, long before the bible, and even before the Jewish people existed yet. What is much, much more fascinating is that the 3 measures of death and darkness before a resurrection/triumph are a symbolic literary/ mythological motif that runs through the history of human literature. So who could take this completely literally, even as a fundamentalist? Did the writer know that he was framing his Jesus character with a technical, surface-level lie by claiming this? Was that done on purpose, to exalt the symbol over a literal interpretation? Everybody knows that there are not actually 3 days AND 3 nights from good Friday to Easter Sunday (using synoptic gospel chronology) it's 3 days and 2 nights.
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