Egyptian gods and goddesses were an essential part ... royal and androgynous attributes (e.g., the Phrygian Cybele, Mesopotamian Inanna). The ancient Mediterranean archetype of Mother-Goddess ...

Their temples—dedicated to such gods as to Innin, the goddess of fertility, or to Dumuzi, a kind of Sumerian Adonis—were huge edifices of mud brick made splendid by intricate mosaics of ...