ABSTRACT
J. Arlow thought, The myth is a particular kind of communal experience. It is a special form of shared fantasy, and it serves to bring the individual into relationship with members of his cultural group on the basis of certain common needs. Many of the myths that have been collected and studied are myths of the hero or the king and his path to sovereignty and his downfall from that position. Myths of mighty women stretch back as far as the origins of spoken language. The earliest such myth that has come down to us in written form is that of Inanna, Queen of Heaven, from Sumer, which was written two thousand years before the Old Testament, the Hebrew Bible. Inanna has a story. It is set in the time when everything on earth had been made; it is explicit that even bread had been made.
