Eden's Bride: Sumerian Chronicles I

BEFORE THE AGE OF KINGS, WHEN GOD WAS A WOMAN...

A queen tries to prevent a gender rift from escalating into war.

3200 BC. Sumer is Iraq 5,000 years ago. Inanna is Goddess, and women rule a world on the brink of annihilation, not by fire, pestilence, or flood, but by man himself.

When Nippur's feminist regime drops its guard, a power-mad priest fabricates an emergency to impose male rule by armed might. Temple leaders turn from a long-held dread of war to fearful reliance on his despotic deman...