About me
Valerie Voigt majored in Classical Languages, with additional concentrations in religion and in psychology, at the University of Kansas.
She was first called to Inanna-Ishtar’s service in the early 1970s, working independently as a priestess of Inanna-Ishtar for several years. She began studying Witchcraft with family tradition Witch “Grandma” Julie Tower in 1978, and continued her studies further, later receiving initiation into Feri Tradition Witchcraft from Victor and Cora Anderson, and initiations through the Third Degree in Gardnerian Wicca. In 1982, with the late Zephyr Starwater, she co-founded the Centre of the Divine Ishtar, a sister Centre of the Fellowship of Isis. The Centre was succeeded by the Temple of Inanna and Dumuzi in 2004.
Ritual
Temple of Inanna and Dumuzi will present a devotional to Inanna and Dumuzi, two of the oldest Deities of civilization, love, war, agriculture, herding, and sexuality. In ancient Sumer, non-binary gendered people were among the clergy who served Them.
In accordance with an ancient Sumerian hymn, we will distribute colored scarves to all, with first choice going to those who identify as trans or non-binary gender (queer, third gender, flexible, etc.) and we will all process through the hotel, praising the Goddess and God and asking for Their blessings on our civilization.
Please array yourself beautifully by your personal standards. Glamor, glitz, bling, high drag are especially appropriate, as is attire that expresses your ownership of your own Power: Inanna is not a modest or moderate Goddess. Be wondrous!
