Cosmic extent of a goddess’ power (1)

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Hymn to Inanna:
When I raise my hand, it encompasses the heaven. I am the queen: my hand has no hand to rival it. When I lift my foot, it encompasses the earth. I am the queen: my foot has no foot to rival it.

Old Babylonian Hymn:
I make heaven and earth shake with my cries … [the qu]een of heaven and earth am I, Ištar … [I c]onstantly traverse heaven, (and) the earth for evermore.

Hesiod, Theogony 412-414:
(Zeus honoured Hekate above others) and he gave her a glorious bounty, a share both of the earth and of the bottomless sea; but from the starry heaven too she has a portion of honour.

Homeric Hymn 5.3-5 (to Aphrodite):
She (= Aphrodite) overpowers the races of mortal men, and the birds that fly in heaven, and every creature, both all that the land breeds, and all that the sea.

Sources (list of abbreviations) (source links will open in a new browser window)
Hesiod, Theogony 412-414
Homeric Hymn 5.3-5 (to Aphrodite)
Hymn to Inanna
Old Babylonian Hymn

Bibliography

Amar Annus

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