Inanna, queen of heaven and earth Book

I really enjoyed the stories themselves, but I wasn't a huge fan of the commentary.

Some of the information contained in the commentary (such as water and semen being the same word in Sumerian), really should have been given in footnotes so I could have known it as I read it, instead of having to re-interpret passages after the fact.

There are also moments that I thought she was stretching a bit far with some of her conclusions. For instance, there's a section where she gives 4 lines, with an item created per line - then states that this symbolizes completeness since there are 4 cardinal directions and 4 sides on a square. But she gives no other context for this statement... Perhaps there's more material she leaves out - this being a common theme in Sumerian, perhaps, or a square being a significant geometrical shape in their art, etc. But just stating that a list of 4 items must be complete because there's 4 directions seems like really sloppy thinking unless you can back that up with additional supporting passages.

For an alternate explanation, a quick google search shows that the number 4 was represented by one wider triangle on bottom, which is topped by 3 smaller wedges. It looks a bit like a tree. So maybe there's 4 items made from the tree because the number 4 itself looks like a tree.

Or maybe there's something significant about the number 2 and you have two people giving 2 gifts each, and it's only coincidental that it adds up to 4.

Wolkstein could be right in everything she says, for all I know. But she just didn't back up many of her statements very well.