In the Sumerian poem, the Return of Dumuzid, there is a particularly interesting parallellism to Christian doctrine; Dumuzid's sister, Geshtinanna laments her brother's descent and subsequent capture into the underworld for many suns and many moons, and Inanna joins the funereal mournings. As well, Sirtur, Dumuzid's mother, weeps thick tears over her son's - seemingly ultimate - disappearance. The three women mourn continually until a fly reveals to Inanna the location of her beloved husband, Dumuzid. Together, Inanna and Geshtinanna follow the guiding fly, whereupon they find him; Dumuzid and Inanna rejoices in amorous splendour and exchanges a strong language of love, and from this point, Inanna decides she can not be without her loving consort, appointing him to half the year with her in Heaven, and the other half of it he is to spend with her sister, Ereshkigal, in the underworld. I think this is a narrative deliberately excluded from the canon of the New Testament, and I believe there to be mythological parallellisms between Dumuzid, the ancient Sumerian shepherd king, and Jesus of Nazareth; Inanna is Mary Magdalene; Sirtur, the Holy Mother of God; Geshtinanna, the sister of Dumuzid, representing the Third Mary present at the Resurrection of Christ.
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