Just trying to show that there were different "Dianas" at different times and in different places. I am suspicious of absolutist versions of mythology which take the relatively recent concept of the chaste female as some sort of norm.
Inanna is a good 2000 years before even the archaic Greeks got around to writing down their myths.
And as far as "Hellenic" pagans, that religion owes more to the un-scholarly musings of Gerald Gardner , Margaret Murray, Margot Adler, and Miriam Simos than to any real writings of actual pagans from antiquity.
but Inanna ISN'T DIANA.
I can prove that my neighbor has sex (hell, she's got two kids) - that says NOTHING about me, or my neighbor on the other side.
There's CERTAINLY nothing claiming the Greeks as a WHOLE were celibate, so arguing Inanna vs. Diana as though that's some kind of absolute measuring stick is WEIRD.
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